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    By Jules Verne; A. D. Kingston [trans.]
    London   Sampson Low, Marston & Company
    7.5" by 5.5" 9-190pp
    A smart English language translation of Jules Verne's novel 'The Demon of Cawnpore', the first part of his larger work 'The Steam House'.
    By Jules Verne; A. D. Kingston [trans.]

    1893 The Steam House (Part I.): The Demon of Cawnpore

    London   Sampson Low, Marston & Company
    7.5" by 5.5" 9-190pp
    A smart English language translation of Jules Verne's novel 'The Demon of Cawnpore', the first part of his larger work 'The Steam House'.
    £395.00
    : 0.5kgs / : 899F43
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    Description

    Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

    An early UK edition of this work, which was first published in English the previous decade.

    Illustrated with a frontispiece and five plates. Collated, complete.

    Part I of the two part novel 'The Steam House', an 1880 work by Verne following a group of British colonists in the Raj travelling in a wheeled house pulled by a steam-powered mechanical elephant. The second part is titled 'Tigers and Traitors'.

    Undated; dated 1893 via Jisc.

    Translated by the French by A. D. Kingston.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Boards bright. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with fading to back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright.

    Very Good

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