Jules Verne "From the Earth to the Moon" Traycased Illustrated Deluxe Limited Edition of 800 [Sealed]

Journey Beyond the Impossible: Jules Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon" Deluxe Illustrated Limited Edition, One of Only 800 Hand-numbered Copies.

A Landmark of Science Fiction: Beautifully Illustrated and Sealed

Norwalk, CT. Easton Press. Jules Verne "From the Earth to the Moon". Deluxe Illustrated Leather Bound Edition. Limited to only 800 hand-numbered copies produced in this edition.

The immortal adventure in the rare lavishly illustrated 1874 first English language edition…

Long before humanity set foot on the Moon, Jules Verne imagined the journey with astonishing creativity and scientific foresight. From the Earth to the Moon remains one of the most influential works of speculative fiction ever written, inspiring generations of scientists, engineers, and dreamers.

Presented here in a magnificent Easton Press Deluxe Illustrated Edition, this heirloom-quality volume showcases Verne's groundbreaking classic in a luxurious collectible format. Bound in full genuine leather, the book is adorned with elaborate gilt decorations, raised spine bands, and shimmering gilt page edges. Richly illustrated throughout, the volume enhances Verne's visionary tale with artwork that captures the excitement, wonder, and ambition of mankind's earliest fictional voyage beyond Earth.

From the Earth to the Moon

Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verne's prophetic novel of man's race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen.

When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that they build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon. But when Barbicane’s adversary places a huge wager that the project will fail and a daring volunteer elevates the mission to a 'manned' flight, one man's dream turns into an international space race.

A story of rip-roaring action, humor, and wild imagination, From the Earth to the Moon is as uncanny in its accuracy and as filled with authentic detail and startling immediacy as Verne's timeless masterpieces 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days.

About the author

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

His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). His novels are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account contemporary scientific knowledge and the technological advances of the time.

In addition to his novels, he wrote numerous plays, short stories, autobiographical accounts, poetry, songs, and scientific, artistic and literary studies. His work has been adapted for film and television since the beginning of cinema, as well as for comic books, theater, opera, music and video games.

Verne is considered to be an important 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 the Anglosphere 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. Since the 1980s, his literary reputation has improved.

Jules Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking below Agatha Christie and above William Shakespeare. He has sometimes been called the "father of science fiction", a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback. In the 2010s, he was the most translated French author in the world. In France, 2005 was declared "Jules Verne Year" on the occasion of the centenary of the writer's death.

Features

Includes all the classic Easton Press qualities:

* Premium Leather
* Silk Moire Endleaves
* Distinctive Cover Design
* Hubbed Spine, Accented in Real 22KT Gold
* Satin Ribbon Page Marker
* Gilded Page Edges
* Long-lasting, High Quality Acid-neutral Paper
* Smyth-sewn Pages for Strength and Durability
* Beautiful Illustrations