Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 553

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
VERNE, JULES. The Lottery Ticket. Illustrated by Roux with 34 plates (one plate partly detached). 8vo, publisher's green cloth lettered and illustrated in gold, black, and green, all edges gilt, cocked, few mild stains; Samuel Linder armorial bookplate and discreet bookseller's label on front pastedown; 32 pp. publisher's advertisements at rear dated October, 1886. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1887

Additional Details

first edition. Title page calls for 38 illustrations, but all known copies with 37; this copy lacking plates at pp. 113, 140, and 218.