Michael Strogoff, From Moscow to Irkoutsk. New York: Frank Leslie's Publishing House, 1876.
First American and First Edition in English. Contemporary 3/4 black leather binding, raised spine bands, marbled endpapers, gilt decoration and lettering at spine reading "Novels". The extremely scarce first English printing of this Russian set adventure novel by Verne, published first as a series in Frank Leslie's Chimney Corner (magazine) and then by the same publisher as a separate illustrated wrappers edition, 126 pages, in two parts and with two content pages. The first hardcover editions by Scribner's and Sampson Low followed months later. This is the separate wrappers edition, bound together with several other contemporary novels but without the wrappers bound in. Also included in the volume is The Two Destinies by Wilkie Collins, published by Harper and Brothers in 1876, an early printing; The Laurel Bush by Dinah Maria Craik, first edition by Harper and Brothers in 1876, and others. Very Good volume, front inner hinge cracked, modest scuffing to leather.
Price: $1,500.00