Easton Press, Jules Verne "A Journey To The Center Of The Earth" Deluxe Signed Limited Artist Edition, Leather Bound, Slipcased [Sealed]

Personally Signed By The Illustrator Samuel Araya and Limited to only 1,200

Easton Press , Norwalk. CT. Jules Verne "A Journey To The Center Of The Earth". A Deluxe Illustrated Edition personally signed and illustrated with specially commissioned artwork by Samuel Araya. As New, sealed in the original shrink-wrap without any flaws.

This is Jules Verne's immortal adventure...

German professor Otto and his nephew Axel venture into an Icelandic volcano and embark on a thrilling adventure in Jules Verne's exhilarating classic novel.

The book features nine full-color plates including a frontispiece specially commissioned from acclaimed artist Samuel Araya, hand-tipped in each volume, and protected by translucent overlays.

Includes a custom-crafted slipcase.

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This edition is now SOLD OUT from the publisher.

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Features include:

• Fully bound in genuine leather.
• 22kt gold accents deeply inlaid on the "hubbed" spine.
• Specially commissioned art exclusive to this volume, hand-tipped into the book and protected by translucent overlays.
• Illustrated and signed colophon page.
• Heavy duty binding boards enhance the book’s durability.
• Superbly printed on acid-neutral paper that lasts for generations.
• Sewn pages – not just glued like ordinary books.
• Handsome marbled endpages and a satin-ribbon page marker.
• Gilded page ends.
• Printed and bound in the USA.
• Rigorous inspection at every stage ensures adherence to our exacting standards.
• Superb craftsmanship and commitment to quality.

ABOUT

Journey to the Center of the Earth (French: Voyage au centre de la Terre, also translated under the titles A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and A Journey to the Interior of the Earth) is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans descend into the Icelandic volcano Snæfellsjökull, encountering many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, before eventually coming to the surface again in southern Italy, at the Stromboli volcano.

The genre of subterranean fiction already existed long before Verne. However, Journey considerably added to the genre's popularity and influenced later such writings. For example, Edgar Rice Burroughs explicitly acknowledged Verne's influence on his own Pellucidar series.

About the Author

Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

Verne's collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).

Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation was markedly different in Anglophone regions where he had often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels have often been printed (until the 1980s, when his "literary reputation ... began to improve").

Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking between Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare.[5] He has sometimes been called the "Father of Science Fiction", a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback.
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