Michael Strogoff a Courier of the Czar by Verne, Jules, and Wyeth, N. C - 1955-01-01

New York: Atheneum, 1997. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 397 pages, a classic adventur of Czarist Russia. 10 color plates including title page by N.C. Wyeth. The definitive edition of the Scribner's Illustrated Classic with the original canvases newly photographed. While not a First Edition it is superior in every way considering the quality of the color plates. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket. Record # 353626

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1883. [Russian Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, a later edition. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xii; 377 [1]. With a folding map and 89 engraved plates by Ferat and Barbant, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Yellow-coated endpapers. Rough bookplate to front pastedown, with related pencil ownership to fly-leaf. Upper hinge split, but quite firm. Browning and a little spotting to preliminaries. Map partly split along one fold. An adventure novel set in Russia, in which the imperial courier must race across Siberia to deliver a message from Moscow to Irkutsk. Published together with an early Verne short story for the first time in 1876.