Jules VERNE

VERNE Jules
Nord contre Sud
[Texar's Revenge, or North Against South]
Hetzel, Paris 1887, 17 x 28 cm, publisher's binding
First edition with 85 illustrations by Benett and a map of the world at end. Publisher's catalogue at end.
Publisher's binding aux deux éléphants et à l'éventail, signed Souze and bound by Lenègre. Spine type D (cf. Jauzac), lower cover type n. Headpieces and edges slightly rubbed. A few thin lines of discoloration to lower cover. Four centimeters crack to endpapers. Occasional faint spotting.
A very good copy, rare in this color.
An adventure story set during the American Civil War, this work is a...

Ilustrée new edition with a frontispiece by Benett and engraved by Hildibrand, a label with the title, header 2, 49 in-text and 3 large prints full page in color by Neuville and Benett and a double-page map.
Cardboard to the acanthus leaf. 3 highlights of notebooks, a detached engraving, but superb condition from the carton. paper very clean, completely free of foxing. First printing in the carton.

First edition, for which there were no large paper copies.

 

Modern pastiche bindings by P. Goy & C. Vilaine, half bronze calf Bradel bindings over marbled paper boards, gilt fillets to spine, covers mounted on guards and preserved.

 

Very rare autograph inscription from Jules Vernie to [Achille] Tournier, prefect of the Somme at the time, and also enriched with a calling card from Jules Verne mounted on guards.

 

With original illustrations by L. Benett. §Jules Verne moved to Amiens, his wife's home town, in 1871: “Due to a wish of my wife's, I am settling in Amiens, a calm, orderly town, of even temper; society here is both cordial and...