A Voyage Round the World In Search of the Castaways
by: Jules Verne

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J B Lippincott Company, 1st US, 1873, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A Romantic Narrative of the Loss of Captain Grant of the Brig Britannia and of the Adventures of the Children and Friends in his Discovery and Rescue. Hardcover. First American edition (and first edition in English). 620 pages. with pictorial title and illustrated with 170 engravings by Riou . Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's full brick cloth, spine and front stamped in gilt and black, beveled edges. This was Verne's fifth book, originally published in French in 1867 as Les Enfants du Captain Grant. Previous owner's discreet signature on half-title page dated November 1874. Otherwise clean and bright.