Lot 56 , Verne, Jules. The Floating Island; or, The Pearl of the Pacific. First UK edition, 1896.

° Verne, Jules. The Floating Island; or, The Pearl of the Pacific. First UK edition, 1896. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1896. 8vo, pp. vii, 382. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations. Publisher’s pictorial cloth decorated in gilt, green, blue and black, decorative endpapers and gilt edges. Bevelled edges to boards. pencil inscriptions to f.f.p.
£100-200

Condition:
Cloth bright, with minor wear and bumps to extremities (possible very sl. touch up to colour on boards) and some wear to front hinge with historical expert repair. Bookseller’s label to front pastedown and inscriptions to front free endpaper and half-title. Contents generally clean, with minor spotting to preliminaries and small chips and tears to edges of a few leaves.