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Verne, Jules
The City in the Sahara
Publisher: Arco Publications, London;
Date of Publication: 1960
Stock Code: 4576
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo. 190 pp. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Very Good. Publishers’ black cloth with gilt title to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket with rare wrap-around band proclaiming “First publication in English”. Boards very lightly bruised to edge; toning to endpapers and light toning to text as usual (though lighter than is common). No annotation or inscriptions. Jacket and band surface soiled particularly to spine and to rear and edges a little rubbed. Translated by I O Evans. Scarce title featuring a super-city in the African desert, published shortly after Verne’s death in 1905 and here translated into English for the first time. £50.00