Works of Jules Verne 1
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Overview:
- Title: Works of Jules Verne 1
- Author: Jules Verne
- Year: 1911
- Publisher: National Alumni
- Pages: xviii+vii+404
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Omnibus
- Title Reference: Five Weeks in a Balloon
- Notes: Source: www.julesverne.ca and verified Vincent Parke Edition d'Amiens. The first page has a signed certificate indicating the series (Members Edition), number of volumes and which copy this is of the 750 printed. The frontispiece illustration coloured and slightly modified version of an interior illustration from the original French novel Cinq semaines en ballon, one by Henri de Montaut. The signature has been obscured. The table lists 3 interior illustrations. The title page has "Works of Jules Verne", "Edited by Charles F. Horne, Ph.D.", with no indication of the volume. Copyright is 1911, no other printing information. The Jules Verne biography is signed Charles F. Horne and runs from pages vii to xviii. The Contents page follows and is numbered v, Illustrations on vii. The Contents are listed as "Jules Verne", "Introduction", "A Drama in the Air", "The Watch's Soul", "A Winter in the Ice", "The Pearl of Lima", "The Mutineers" and "Five Weeks in a Balloon". Titles have been taken from the title pages provided for each story and where there is none, from the title preceding the text. The Jules Verne biography is listed as starting on page III. The translation of Five Weeks in a Balloon changed the word "important" to "impromptu", but otherwise matches the translation text.