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Jules VERNE les Indes Noires

Jules VERNE

les Indes Noires

Hetzel, Paris 1876, Grd. in-8 (18x27,3cm), 173pp., relié.


Illustrated first edition, drawings by Férat engraved by Charles Brabant.
Publisher cardboard says "Aux initials" green fir. Plate signed Berger. Binding signed Charles Magnier tail. Rosette cold on the second board.
Beautiful top plate, fresh. A very slightly blunt corner, the others a little rubbed, a folded. Back well, with gold well clear and shiny. A small lack of percaline tail reveals the cardboard. second board in good condition, with light scratching areas. Regular golden slices. Scattered and in the margins. Nice copy.
The Black Indies are the Scottish coal mines. An operator discovers a deposit and builds a real underground city, a girl is discovered there that seems to have never seen the day. The underground city is a utopia, an ideal vision of a hidden world.

 

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