Title: Hector Servadac; or, The Career of a Comet
Title Record # 1197032
Author: Jules Verne
Date: 1878-00-00
Variant Title of: Hector Servadac, voyages et aventures à travers le monde solaire [French] (1877) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: NOVEL
Series: Voyages extraordinaires
Series Number: 15
Language: English
Current Tags: Librivox (1), science fiction (1)
Author: Jules Verne
Date: 1878-00-00
Variant Title of: Hector Servadac, voyages et aventures à travers le monde solaire [French] (1877) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: NOVEL
Series: Voyages extraordinaires
Series Number: 15
Language: English
Note: Translated by Ellen E. Frewer.
This translation begins:
""Nothing, sir, can induce me to surrender my claim."
"I am sorry for it, count, but in such a matter your views cannot modify mine.""
The second part begins:
"By the return of the expedition, conveying its contribution from Formentera, the known population of Gallia was raised to a total of thirty-six."
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Current Tags: Librivox (1), science fiction (1)
Publications
| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hector Servadac; or, The Career of a Comet | 1878-00-00 | Jules Verne | Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington | 10/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced
in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings
equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling.
Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g.
3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that
is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but
sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters
of a shilling). |
370 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel |
Reviews
- Review by Joseph H. Crawford, Jr. and James J. Donahue and Donald M. Grant (1953) in '333': A Bibliography of the Science-Fantasy Novel , reprinted in:
- '333': A Bibliography of the Science-Fantasy Novel (1953)