• Publication: Works of Jules Verne 1Publication Record # 760919
• Author: Jules Verne
• Date: 1911-00-00
• Publisher: Vincent Parke and Co.
• Pub. Series: Edition d'Amiens
• Pages: xviii+vii+404
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: OMNIBUS
• Notes: The first page has a signed certificate indicating the series (Edition d'Amiens), number of volumes and which copy this is of the 600 printed. The frontispiece illustration coloured and slightly modified version of an interior illustration from the original French novel Cinq semaines en ballon, one by Henri de Montaut. The signature has been obscured. The table lists 3 interior illustrations. The title page has "Works of Jules Verne", "Edited by Charles F. Horne, Ph.D.", with no indication of the volume. Copyright is 1911, no other printing information. The Jules Verne biography is signed Charles F. Horne and runs from pages vii to xviii. The Contents page follows and is numbered v, Illustrations on vii. The Contents are listed as "Jules Verne", "Introduction", "A Drama in the Air", "The Watch's Soul", "A Winter in the Ice", "The Pearl of Lima", "The Mutineers" and "Five Weeks in a Balloon". Titles have been taken from the title pages provided for each story and where there is none, from the title preceding the text. The Jules Verne biography is listed as starting on page III. The translation of Five Weeks in a Balloon changed the word "important" to "impromptu", but otherwise matches the translation text.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 640162808

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• vii • Jules Verne • essay by Charles F. Horne, Ph.D.
• 1 • Introduction to Volume One • essay by Charles F. Horne, Ph.D.
• 3 • A Drama in the Air • (1874) • short story by Jules Verne (trans. of Un drame dans les airs 1851)
• 21 • The Watch's Soul or Master Zacharius • novelette by Jules Verne (trans. of Maître Zacharius ou l'horloger qui avait perdu son âme 1854)
• 53 • A Winter Amid the Ice or The Cruise of the Jeune Hardie • novelette by Jules Verne (trans. of Un hivernage dans les glaces 1855)
• 107 • The Pearl of Lima or Martin Paz • novella by Jules Verne (trans. of Martin Paz 1875)
• 159 • The Mutineers or A Tragedy of Mexico • novelette by Jules Verne (trans. of Un drame au Mexique 1876)
• 179 • Five Weeks in a Balloon • [Voyages extraordinaires • 1] • (1876) • novel by Jules Verne (trans. of Cinq semaines en ballon 1863)