The Steam House, part II; Tigers and Traitors

Description

First American edition. Publisher’s brown pictorial cloth, black and gilt illustration,. 8vo., 19x14x2.5 cm. Charles Scribner’s Sons. New York. 1881. viii, 246 pp. + 8 pp. ads. Translated by Agnes D. Kingston. 47 full-page illustrations, one folding map. Illustrated by Leon Benett. Good plus, moderate wear to cover extremities, small owner’s label to pastedown, closed tear to rear endpaper, complete with all illustrations and the map. Part 2 of Verne’s tale of British travelers touring in a wheeled house propelled by a mechanical elephant. Scarce American edition published the same year as the London edition. weight: 1.4 lb.