Riou edward illus (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 305, [11] p., interspersed with plates. 20 cm. Frontispiece, title vignette, and 19 other b&w plates. Brown cloth with blank impressing and gold lettering. Mylar wrap (removed for photos). Spine cloth chipped. Corners a bit bumped. Front hinge cracked internally. Bookplate for Theodore & Caroline Foster Sizer on front pastedown. Discolouration to text block edges. Some light soiling to first pages. Early English translations of "Voyage au Centre de la Terre" generally added "A" in front of the title. Oddly, Verne's Professor "Lidenbrock" becomes "Von Hardwigg" and there are other changes from the original French. Despite oddities in the translation, "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" remains one of the greatest adventure stories of all time. Riou's illustrations enter into the spirit of the text, including creepy dark caverns, a mushroom forest, prehistoric animals, a sea monster, a plain of bones, "human" remains, and so on. A modern adult is overwhelmed by the amount of scientific knowledge in Verne's head, as well as his fertile imagintion. Theodore Sizer (1892 1967) was an American professor of the history of art at Yale University and a director of the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1916, he married Caroline Wheelwright Foster.10 p. of publisher's ads at rear with first page advertising works by Verne, including "Meridiana" and "From the Earth to the Moon." Also ads on title page verso, including three by Verne. Taves & Michaluk V002. Myers 35. Early Scribner edition, cheaper than their first with fewer illustrations, intended to meet the low-price challenge presented by Henry L. Shepard's cheap edition. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 620, [4] p. 23 cm. Half title and title vignettes. 137 full-page plates and numerous in-text illustrations, numbering over 170 altogether. Brown cloth with black and gold impressing. Mylar wrap, removed for photos. Light wear to corners and spine ends. Front hinge cracking internally. Ink signature on a front endpaper. Stains to bottom margins pp. 158-9 affecting a couple of leaves in both directions. Some light stains and thumbing elsewhere. Tear in margin of p. 399. Verne's fifth book, originally published in French in 1867 as "Les Enfants du Captain Grant." One of the few Verne works that Sampson Low never published in Britain. This volume contains all three parts of the tale; later these were usually published separately. Taves & Micheluk V005. Myers 34. First US Edition and first edition in English.…