VERNE, Jules.

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Hector Servadac. First British edition in book form of the work better known as Off on a Comet. It is "a mixture of forms: geography, a puzzle story, astronomical fiction, the last man, plus a great deal of unconscious projection on the part of Jules Verne" (Bleiler, p. 763).Although the title page is dated 1878, the book was published in November 1877, following serialization in Strahan's Boys' and Girls' Annual from January to September 1877. The French edition was also published the same year. Variant cloth colours have been noted, without priority.

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