The Mysterious Island Trilogy: Dropped From The Clouds, Abandoned, The Secret of the Island

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Author: Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905) Year: 1875-1876 Publisher: Scribner, Armstrong and Company Place: New York Description: 3 volumes. Dropped From The Clouds : viii-[9]-310+[2 ad] pages with frontispiece and numerous black and white illustrations. Abandoned: viii+304+[8 ad] pages with frontispiece and numerous black and white illustrations. The Secret of the Island : viii+299+[1 ad] pages with frontispiece and numerous black and white illustrations. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original polisher's cloth with beveled terra cotta cloth boards with an bright unfaded gilt scene to the front and gilt motifs to spine. Dropped From The Clouds is in green cloth; Abandoned bound in blue cloth; The Secret of the Island bound in original brown cloth. Translated by W. H. G. Kingston. (Gallagher, Mistichelli Eerde A33) First American editions. The Mysterious Island (French: L'Île mystérieuse ) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1875. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Jules Férat. The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870) and In Search of the Castaways (1867–68), though its themes are vastly different from those books. An early draft of the novel, initially rejected by Verne's publisher and wholly reconceived before publication, was titled Shipwrecked Family: Marooned with Uncle Robinson , seen as indicating the influence of the novels Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Fami

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