first edition Hardcover
1874 · Boston
by VERNE, Jules
Boston: William F. Gill, 1874. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition thus, with this title, in the first state of the binding. Contemporary bookplate of Ellis H. Roberts on the front pastedown, with a roughly contemporary pencil owner name on the first, white, blank leaf, a few tiny tears at the crown, and a little light rubbing, still a bright, very good plus copy. Roberts was the Treasurer of the United States during the terms of Presidents McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. (Inventory #: 74049)