Description: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne First Geo. Smith printing, second issue of the sci-fi classic Boston: Geo. M. Smith & Co., 1873. First printing of the Smith edition with title page dated 1873, preceded in America by the very scarce Osgood edition. Second and usual issue lacking "The End" on page 303; preceded in America by the Osgood edition, of which all but an estimated 30 copies were destroyed in the Great Boston Fire of 1872. xvi, 303 pp. w/ all illustrated plates. Bound in publisher's green cloth with elaborate gilt and black stamping, brown coated endpapers. Near Fine with light wear; contents tanned, several signatures slightly over opened. A great copy of a book usually found in much lesser condition. With 110 illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Edouard Riou, engraved by Hildibrand. The classic tale of Captain Nemo and his submarine the Nautilus by the "father of Science Fiction."
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Author: Verne, Jules
Publisher: Geo. M. Smith & Co
Year Printed: 1873
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Original/Facsimile: Original
