• Publication: The Best of Jules VernePublication Record # 35820
• Author: Jules Verne
• Date: 1978-00-00
• ISBN: 0-89009-270-2 [978-0-89009-270-5]
• Publisher: Castle Books
• Pages: viii+470
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: OMNIBUS
• Notes:

  • Edited by Alan K. Russell. Three novels with the original French illustrations. --unknown source for that and for the two 1978 essay titles
  • WorldCat library records (OCLC, below) support or imply the other data on contents, and report, quoting the title page presumably: -- "With original illustrations" -- "Selected and introduced by Alan K. Russell" -- 1 page of plates -- size 24 cm, 25 cm
  • "Original engravings. Over 150 illustrations." --listing in newspaper advertisement by Hudson's Books, "Anniversary: save 25% to 50% and more ...", Detroit Free Press 1979-06-07 p6A List price $7.99 to $11.99 is implied by Hudson's price $5.99 and "save 25% to 50%".
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 5881995 7977052

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• The World of Jules Verne • essay by Alan K. Russell
• Around the World in Eighty Days • [Voyages extraordinaires • 11] • (1929) • novel by Jules Verne (trans. of Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours 1873)
• The Clipper of the Clouds • [Robur (Jules Verne) • 1] • novel by Jules Verne (trans. of Robur le Conquérant 1886)
• Journey to the Center of the Earth • [Voyages extraordinaires • 3] • novel by Jules Verne (trans. of Voyage au centre de la terre 1864)
• 460 • Jules Verne at Home • (1895) • essay by Marie Belloc Lowndes [as by Marie A. Belloc]
• Books by Jules Verne • essay by uncredited