Set Reminder2022-10-20 12:00:002022-10-20 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-including-americana-21941 Our fall book sale will be a major high spot for the department this year. We are offering several items that are only found institutionally including a presentation copy of the Bodley Head Ulysses signed by Joyce and a book owned by Ernest Shackleton that was taken by him on the Nimrod Expedition.
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VERNE, Jules (1828?1905). The Castle of the Carpathians. New York: The Merriam Co., n.d. [1894]. 8vo. 38 wood?engraved plates including frontispiece. Original pictorial dark green cloth stamped in white and gilt?lettered (spine slightly skewed, else fine). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of this ?rather bizarre and undervalued novel? (Jean?Jules Verne, Jules Verne p. 173) and a ?remarkable feat of psychological projection? (Bleiler). A BRIGHT COPY. Bleiler, p. 199; Myers 8.