Verne (Jules) The Chase of the Golden Meteor
£250
London, Grant Richards, 1909.
‘New and Cheaper Edition’. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth lettered in gilt to upper cover.
One of the author’s posthumously published novels, relating the rivalry between two amateur astronomers in small-town American town who attempt to claim a surprisingly valuable comet.
In stock
Some foxing, mostly contained to extremities; cloth very good.
Frontispiece, tissue guard, 23 plates by George Roux.
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