Jules Verne - Autour de la Lune [Rarissime 1er tirage couverture conservée] - 1872

Around the Moon
Jules Verne
Hetzel
1872
19 x 28 cm
180 pp
1.5 kg

Rare first printing in a single illustrated volume.
Bonaventure edition, a gathering bearing the double numbering (see Jauzac page 74)
Rare illustrated publisher's cover for the paperback edition preserved and glued to the front board
The publisher's illustrated covers for the first printings are almost unobtainable

Simple binding, red half-cloth.
Good condition, interior very fresh, very rare foxing and damp stains.
Without half-title and title page.
Otherwise, a very fine copy of this rarissime bound version of the illustrated edition.