![]() ![]() 5-202, flyleaves at front and rear, 42 full-page illustrations (re-engraved after drawings by J. Uncommon early American printing, roughly coinciding with the 1st Scribner edition Shepard did not print parts 2 or 3 in book form. Scattered light soiling to contents a few pages with short closed margin tears. A few pencil notations and sums in a young student's hand. Illustrated with 42 woodcuts printed single side. Several signatures starting and somewhat tenuously attached mild internal splits at two locations mid book. Leather rubbed at corners and over spine edges. Bookplate of a university Belle Lettres society is mounted to the front pastedown. Contents resewn with original binding thread holes visible in the gutters. In a period 19th century 1/2 leather over marbled boards rebinding with gilt title lettering tooled to spine. ![]() 12mo 7" - 7½" tall 202 pages The first part of Verne's 3 part Mysterious Island, published by Shepard presumably as a pirated edition and to boost sales of their new magazine "American Homes" - an ad at the rear of the book touts the appearance of Part 2 in the current issue. ![]()
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