Search Results: the wreck of the chancellor diary by verne jules

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates Mustard cloth w/black deco cover & spine, gilt band on spine, brown endpapers, 358 pgs + Ads. Sound binding. Not Dated. circ 1890, Finger soil to frontis illustration, light edge toning to pages. Covers have dust soil, curled corners. light wear top spine edge/btm corner Translated from the French by Ellen Frewer. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Alta Edition. Hard Cover. Good/None Issued. Illus. by Riou.

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1876 By Jules Verne, the story of the final voyage of British sailing ship the Chancellor, told from the perspective of one of its passengers (in the form of a diary). At the beginning of its voyage, the Chancellor carried eight passengers and twenty crew members. By the end, only eleven people (five passengers and six crew) remained alive. Alta Edition. Condition notes: 358 numbered pp + period ads; HB. Pages: clean, ivory, tight, tan eps, frontis; PO decorative bookplate to front eps, PO info inked and dated 1892 to ffep, front hinge cracked but intact, a.e. well sunned, t,e. dusty. Cover: brick decorative cloth, black/reverse embossed ornamentation front/spine, reverse titles front, black titles to gilt spineblock; modest shelfwear, extrems somewhat worn, back and extrems modestly rubbed, light spot to spine.

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates Translated from the French by Ellen Frewer. nd c- 1876. Early issue. Paste on color art of aristrocratic woman at podium. Blue/black/orange acorns decorated covers, rear board has edgewear with bottom nibbled a bit, o/w nice copy of scarce issue. 358 pgs. 6 pgs publisher's ads.. First American Edition.. Decorative Cloth. Very Good.