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Verne, Jules : Five Weeks In A Balloon in Every Saturday: A Journal Of Choice Reading, Volume VI, No. 153, December 5, 1868, in Bound Volume

Fields, Osgood, & Co., Boston, 1868

4to. Entire volume, binding copy, marbled front board detached but present, rear board missing, spine leather missing, some pages brittle and chipped, including the first few pages, and the final few pages, not affecting the Verne piece. This is the first appearance in English of parts of the author's first novel, a few pages excerpted from the book of the same title that would be published by D. Appleton, NY, 1869, after having been published multiple times in France beginning in 1863. Verne, who was relatively unknown in the English - speaking literary world, was misidentified by the editors of the present piece as "M. Jules Berne." It is generally believed the editors thought this piece was non-fiction. From the editor's preface, "I must begin by stating that I cannot guarantee the authenticity of the following remarkable adventures. I merely repeat them here, confiding in the good faith of one M. Jules Berne. The Frenchmen, who, it is notorious, are much better up in aeronautics than ourselves, modestly leave the merit of the five weeks' balloon trip across Africa to the English." Very scarce.. Magazine. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover

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