Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas

by Jules Verne

$28,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1873. Extremely scarce first American trade edition, previously published by Osgood via subscription only. viii, 303 pp., profusely illustrated with wood engravings. Bound in contemporary half morocco over marbled boards, raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, all edges speckled red, pink endpapers. Near Fine with moderate rubbing to covers, offsetting to endpapers, and owner signature

• Binding: Leather

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