1884 Keraban the Inflexible: The Captain of the Guidara

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

The very scarce first UK edition of this work.

Jules Verne's novel was first published in the original French in 1883, and was published in the UK in two parts, first with this volume, 'The Captain of the Guidara' in 1884, and with a second volume 'Scarpante the Spy' in the following year.

With the publisher's catalogue dated September 1884, as called for, and in the earliest issue of the publisher's original cloth binding.

Illustrated with a frontispiece, double page map, and forty-eight further plates. Collated, complete.

With the inscription of Harry Gage Spicer, dated 1884, to the front pastedown, alongside the bookplate of H. G. & G. M. Spicer.

A thrilling Verne adventure novel, involving a journey around the black sea, and an evil villain named Seigneur Saffar.