• Publication: The Desert of IcePublication Record # 712764
• Author: Jules Verne
• Date: 1877-00-00
• Publisher: Goubaud & Son
• Price:
  2/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes: JVE gives the title as The Frozen Desert but notes that "The Desert of Ice" appears on the title page and heads each page. Sources:

  • Title, publisher (Goubaud & Son) and date (nd-circa 1877) from text and images at www.julesverne.ca.
  • Title (The Frozen Desert), date (around 1877), publisher (Goubaud & Son), format (cloth gilt, gilt edges, bevelled boards), price (2s)and translation from Jules Verne Encyclopedia.
  • Title, date (1877), publisher (Goubaud), translator (?) and translation from jv.gilead.org.il.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• The Desert of Ice • [Captain Hatteras • 2] • novel by Jules Verne (trans. of Le désert de glace 1866)