![]() Front cover and spine pictorially stamped in gilt and black, front cover lettered in blind against gilt and black, spine also lettered in black, back cover ruled in blind with central publisher's device in blind. In the original deluxe issue bindings (an extra cost option when new) of green (Dropped From the Clouds) and purple (The Abandoned and The Secret of The Island) sand-grain cloth over beveled boards. Dropped From the Clouds with fifty wood-engraved plates (including frontispiece with tissue guard) The Abandoned with fifty wood-engraved plates (including frontispiece with tissue guard) The Secret of the Island with forty nine wood-engraved plates (including frontispiece with tissue guard). publisher's advertisements viii, 299,, iii (advertisements), pp. Together three octavo volumes (7 5/16 x 5 3/8 inches 186 x 137 mm). First edition in English of L'Ile Mysterieuse (first published in French in 1874). London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle (1875). ![]() ![]() Dropped From the Clouds, The Abandoned and The Secret of the Island. ![]()
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