Jules Verne - Cinq semaines en ballon [Rarissime 1er tirage couverture conservée] - 1870

Five Weeks in a Balloon
Jules Verne
Hetzel
1870
19 x 28 cm
267pp
2kg

Rare first printing in a single-volume illustrated and corrected edition.
Bonaparte? Bonaventure print run (see printer's mark) corresponding to the issue that modifies only the half-title and the contents table (Jauzac page 62).
Rare illustrated publisher's cover of the paperback volume preserved and pasted on the front board.
The publisher's illustrated covers for the first printings are almost unobtainable (see Lot 61, 2nd Jacob Boisgirard sale).

Binding: simple half red cloth.
Good condition, interior very fresh, very rare foxing and damp stains.
Otherwise, a very beautiful copy of this extremely rare bound edition of Jules Verne's first novel in an illustrated edition. Known copies are counted on the fingers of one hand!”