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Verne, Jules.
Michael Strogoff: Courier of the Czar.
Publisher: Arco Publications with Bernard Hanison, London;
Date of Publication: 1959
Stock Code: 11738
FIRST THUS: Abridged Edition. Octavo, pp., 192. Publishers’ black cloth with gilt titles to spine in price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket. Spine tips very lightly creased, and upper corner of lower board slightly bumped. Minor foxing to top edge otherwise contents clean and crisp, with no annotation or inscriptions. Dust-jacket lightly soiled to rear white panel and a little creased to edge. A very good copy in like jacket. Spy novel set in nineteenth-century Russia, centred on a Tartar rebellion in Siberia. One critic said of the novel: “Jules Verne has written no better book than this, in fact it is deservedly ranked as one of the most thrilling tales ever written.” £45.00