Jules VERNE, Gabriel / The Chase of the Golden Meteor 1st Edition

  
The Chase of the Golden Meteor. Description: [Science fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp. Navy blue cloth with white titles to spine, gilt titles and colour blocking to upper board. Illustrated with twenty-four halftone plates, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece.

Ex-libris stamp front-paste down, spotting throughout, toning and spotting to edges of textblock, rolling to spine. All plates remain in the book. This novel is one of Verne's later works, and the story follows the epic race to find the falling meteor. Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971. As part of Harrington Brothers on London's fashionable King's Road, after 40+ years of bookselling in the capital, Adrian relocated to Royal Tunbridge Wells.

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