A Floating City, and the Blockade Runners Author: Verne, Jules Place: New York Publisher: Scribner, Armstrong, & Co. Date: 1874 Description: ii, [ad leaf], [iii]-iv, 286 + [8] ad pp. Illustrated with 42 wood-engraved plates. 20.5x13.5 cm (8x5¼"), original green cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt & black. First American Edition. First American edition, published the same month as the first British edition. Two tales by Verne, the first a fictionalized account of his passage across the Atlantic aboard "The Great Eastern," the largest iron ship ever built and one of the wonders of its age; the second relates a Glasgow shipowner's plan to run the Union blockade of southern ports during the Civil War, in order to bring a load of cotton back to his city's idle looms. Myers 22. Lot Amendments Condition: Wear at spine ends and corners; some light foxing within, ink inscription to front free endpaper; very good. Item number: 293776
A Floating City, and the Blockade Runners Author: Verne, Jules Place: New York Publisher: Scribner, Armstrong, & Co. Date: 1874 Description: ii, [ad leaf], [iii]-iv, 286 + [8] ad pp. Illustrated with 42 wood-engraved plates. 20.5x13.5 cm (8x5¼"), original green cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt & black. First American Edition. First American edition, published the same month as the first British edition. Two tales by Verne, the first a fictionalized account of his passage across the Atlantic aboard "The Great Eastern," the largest iron ship ever built and one of the wonders of its age; the second relates a Glasgow shipowner's plan to run the Union blockade of southern ports during the Civil War, in order to bring a load of cotton back to his city's idle looms. Myers 22. Lot Amendments Condition: Wear at spine ends and corners; some light foxing within, ink inscription to front free endpaper; very good. Item number: 293776
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