Title: Propeller Island
Title Record # 186948
Author: Jules Verne
Date: 1961-00-00
Variant Title of: L'île à hélice [French] (1895) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: NOVEL
Series: Voyages extraordinaires
Series Number: 41
Language: English
Current Tags: Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1)
Author: Jules Verne
Date: 1961-00-00
Variant Title of: L'île à hélice [French] (1895) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: NOVEL
Series: Voyages extraordinaires
Series Number: 41
Language: English
Note: Translated by W. J. Gordon and significantly abridged to remove anti-US and anti-British passages. This version has been further abridged by I. O. Evans.
This translation begins:
"When a journey begins badly it rarely ends well. At least that ought to have been the opinion of the four instrumentalists whose instruments lay on the ground, the carriage in which they were riding having suddenly upset against a mound by the side of the road."
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Current Tags: Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1)
Publications
| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Propeller Island | 1961-00-00 | Jules Verne | Associated Booksellers (The Fitzroy Edition of Jules Verne) | $3.00?$: US dollar |
192 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel |  |
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| Propeller Island | 1961-00-00 | Jules Verne | Arco Publishing (The Fitzroy Edition of Jules Verne) | 12/6?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). |
192 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |||
| Propeller Island | 1965-00-00 | Jules Verne | Panther | 3/6?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). |
192 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | |||
| Propeller Island | 1977-00-00 | Jules Verne | Hart-Davis, MacGibbon | 0-246-10901-7 | £2.95?£: UK pound |
192 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Oliver Hunter (I) | |
| Propeller Island | 2008-04-30 | Jules Verne | Wildside Press | 978-1-4344-6968-7 | $9.99?$: US dollar |
196 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
| Propeller Island | 2008-04-30 | Jules Verne | Wildside Press | 978-1-4344-6969-4 | $19.99?$: US dollar |
196 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel |