The Best of Jules Verne
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Overview:
- Title: The Best of Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Year: 1981
- ISBN-10: 0890092702
- Publisher: Castle Books
- Pages: viii+470
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Omnibus
- Title Reference: The Best of Jules Verne
- Notes:
- Three complete, illustrated novels. Around the World in Eighty Days, The Clipper of the Clouds, Journey to the Center of the Earth. With original illustrations. Selected and introduced by Alan K. Russell. [per title page]. The Sources on the copyright page states "Journey to the Centre of the Earth was first published in English in 1872 ...". Conversely, the lead-in page, the title preceding and page headers for for the third novel all state "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth", so this has been used as the contents title(s).
- Date of JUNE-1981 given on copyright page. No indication of which printing.
- The illustrations are credited on the contents page as simply Neuville and Benet, Benet and Riou respectively. Credits given based on these references, to be varianted to full names. The cover illustration is from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (titled The Cross Roads in the book).
- Physical size is 24 cm x 17 cm. There are multiple illustrations throughout the book. Probably the 151 claimed on the dust jacket.
- There is no printed price on book or dust jacket.
- There is a section specified by the Table of Contents called Books by Jules Verne, starting on page 468. There is a section not mentioned in the ToC called Books about Jules Verne on page 470. Neither of these have been included in the Contents below as they are bibliographies.