Sold for:
$1,159
$1,159
New York: Scribner, Armstrong, 1876. 8vo, publisher's green cloth-backed boards pictorially stamped in gilt and black, 4 pp. advertisements, profusely illustrated. Scarce First Combined edition, comprising three parts of The Mysterious Island: Dropped from the Clouds; Abandoned; The Secret of the Island. Wear to boards with rubbing to edges and a minor loss to bottom corner rear boards; hinges slightly tender; evidence of previous owner's manuscript ex-libris to f.f.e.p.; some light brownspotting; otherwise very good condition. Rarely seen with boards preserved in their original state with no restoration.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2011-08-09
