{"product_id":"jules-verne-s-round-the-moon-first-edition-title-variant-1870","title":"Jules Verne’s \"Round The Moon\" First Edition, Title Variant, 1881.","description":"\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003eVERNE, Jules. \u003cem\u003eRound the Moon: A Sequel to From the Earth to the Moon.\u003c\/em\u003e London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1881.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Author’s illustrated edition. Small octavo. 192 pp. First English edition title \u003cem\u003eRound the Moon\u003c\/em\u003e rather than \u003cem\u003eAround the Moon\u003c\/em\u003e. Translated by Louise Mercier and Eleanor E. King. Original blue cloth, elaborately blind-stamped and gilt-decorated to boards and spine, all edges gilt. Illustrated with numerous full-page wood engravings after drawings by Émile Bayard and Alphonse de Neuville.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents are clean with light foxing, as usual; decorative prize bookplate dated April 1883 to front pastedown. Binding is sound and square, gilt remains bright, light shelf wear to exteriors with minor bumping to corners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlmost prophetic, Jules Verne’s \u003cem\u003eFrom the Earth to the Moon\u003c\/em\u003e exhibits striking parallels to the real-life Apollo program, particularly Apollo 8, the first U.S. manned mission to orbit the Moon. Written almost a century before, Jules Verne's prophetic novel of man's race to the stars is a classic adventure tale with scientific acumen. \u003cem\u003eFrom the Earth to the Moon\u003c\/em\u003e is “the first interplanetary novel to focus on the technical and organizational preparations for the voyage, using the actual blast-off as a climax, introducing thereby a new narrative realism. \u003cem\u003eAround the Moon\u003c\/em\u003e continues the story by describing the experiences of the intrepid voyagers as they observe the Moon \u003cem\u003een passant\u003c\/em\u003e before a slingshot effect hurls them earthward again. The couplet is one of the definitive foundation stones of the Science Fiction genre” (Barron:II:1180).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54337965588785,"sku":null,"price":425.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/0845\/5729\/files\/ChatGPT_Image_May_26_2026_12_02_27_PM.png?v=1779822433","url":"https:\/\/redeemedrarebooks.com\/products\/jules-verne-s-round-the-moon-first-edition-title-variant-1870","provider":"New Arrivals","version":"1.0","type":"link"}