Cloth rubbed at edges and lightly soiled, else a clean, tight, very good or better copy. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 766. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2228. Angenot and Khouri, 'An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction,' SFS, VIII (March 1981), 47. Verne's second novel, a translation of VOYAGE AU CENTRE DE LA TERRE (1864). The 'popular' edition advertises three Verne books published by Scribner, Armstrong, MERIDIANA, FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, and A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH (offered here in both 'popular' and 'complete' editions). The 'popular' edition may have been published simultaneously with Scribner, Armstrong's more lavish 413-page 'complete' edition, which sold for $3.00.

Scribner, Armstrong's 'popular' edition was published in June 1874 at 75¢ to undermine sales of the unauthorized edition published in Boston in 1874 by the Henry L. Although its title page is dated 1874, the Scribner, Armstrong edition was published 8 November 1873 at $2.00 per copy. This undated 305-page edition with 20 full-page illustrations was preceded by a 384-page Scribner, Armstrong edition with 52 full-page illustrations, printed from the plates of the British 1872 Sampson Low edition. First printing of Scribner, Armstrong's 'popular' edition. 1-305, flyleaves at front and rear, 20 illustrations by Riou, original decorated green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind, rear panel stamped in blind, yellow endpapers.

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