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Title: From the Earth to the Moon, Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: And a Trip Around It Author: Verne, Jules Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Scribner, Armstrong & Co. Date: 1874 Description: 323 pp. Illustrated with 80 wood-engraved plates. 7¾x5, original red cloth decorated & lettered in gilt & black. First Illustrated American Edition. There was an unillustrated edition published in Newark, New Jersey in 1869, the only known copy of which is in the Library of Congress. The English edition, with illustrations, followed in 1873, then the present edition. Myers 26. Lot Amendments Condition: Light soiling to cloth, spine foot worn, lacking about ½" of the cloth, less wear to head, corners rubbed, small rubbed patch to front cover; hinge cracked before title, others tender, foxing to title, tissue guard torn, about very good. Item number: 152565