Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea /Jules Verne

Name/Title

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea /Jules Verne

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.366

Description

x, 385 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. With an introduction by Felix Riesenberg and a glossary of deep-sea life.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

1930s

Dimensions

Height

8-3/4 in

Width

6 in

Book Details

Author

Jules Verne

Illustrator

Anton Otto Fischer

Publisher

John C. Winston

Place Published

City

Philadelphia

State/Province

Pennsylvania

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1932

Binding

Binding Type

Publishers' Binding- Onlay

Binding Notes

Bound in black cloth hardcovers with full cover color onlay depicting a dramatic undersea scene of helmeted divers thrusting spears and knives into a ferocious shark. Blue illustrated endpapers of ocean scene and submarine.