THEIR ISLAND HOME; The Later Adventures of the Swiss Family Robinson
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.d. [c.1924]. Early G&D Reprint. Cloth. 8vo, tan cloth with dark green rectangular ship embossed on cover, Translator's Note by Cranstoun Metcalfe, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), cover art repeated as full color frontispiece of elephant charging natives, green endpapers with nautical motifs, [xiv] + 272 pages (with publisher's green-staining along upper edges of pages intended to reduce normal discoloration). Very Good + / Very Good. Item #1169
RARE in the dust jacket (which has only some minor chipping at its periphery).
SUPERIOR COPY with a tight text block, clean pages, minor rubbing, small bookseller's tag on rear pastedown.
This is the first part of Jules Verne"s, Seconde Patrie, or Second Fatherland (1900), which related "The Later Adventures of the Swiss Family Robinson." Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London, published its companion, The Castaways of the Flag, in 1923. The complete American edition was published in two volumes by G. Howard Watt in 1924. This copy acknowledges Watt's copyright of 1924, hence our dating.
Jules Verne (1828 – 1905) was a French novelist, poet, playwright, and world-recognized Grand Master of science fiction and adventure. His series Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels, included Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).--Wiki.
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