Jules Verne “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” Vintage Hardcover 1922

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne’s legendary underwater adventure is presented in this early Windermere Series edition, enriched by the full-color plates of celebrated illustrator Milo Winter.
Following the enigmatic Captain Nemo aboard the Nautilus, this classic tale helped lay the foundations of modern science fiction.
It remains an essential work of high-seas imagination and technological foresight.

#### **Book Details**
* **Author:** Jules Verne
* **Illustrator:** Milo Winter
* **Publisher:** Rand McNally & Company
* **Binding:** HARDCOVER
* **Edition Points:** Windermere Series edition, copyright 1922. Features the distinctive color paste-down illustration on the front cover and 8 glossy color plates throughout, including frontispiece

#### **Condition Report**
* **Overall Grade:** Good Plus (G+)
* **Cover & Spine:** Blue cloth boards show fair amount rubbing to the edges and corners. There is minor fraying to the spine ends and corner tips. The front cover color paste-down remains bright with a semi-triangular loss to upper-left corner. The spine is sunned with fading to the titles.
* **Dust Jacket:** Not present.
* **Text Block & Pages:** Farely age-toned along the edges. Outer edge of pages in places, including on a couple of the rear illustrations, the outer margins of the pages exhibit some moisture exposure marks.  Two front fryleaves have upper corners turned in. A vintage pen signature (“Richard Wiss”) is present on the inner front flyleaf, other wise no marks, no loose pages or significant tears.  Text is complete and quite legible.
* **Binding:** Complete, but starting, more so at the front cover, primarily in the middle section, not at the spine head and tail.  Block is still square and closes tightly.

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