Title: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Title Record # 2543066
Author: Jules Verne
Date: 1876-05-00
Variant Title of: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers [French] (1869) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: NOVEL
Series: Captain Grant and Captain Nemo Universe
Series Number: 2
Language: English
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Author: Jules Verne
Date: 1876-05-00
Variant Title of: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers [French] (1869) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: NOVEL
Series: Captain Grant and Captain Nemo Universe
Series Number: 2
Language: English
Note: Translated by an unknown hand.
This translation begins:
"In the year 1866 the whole maritime population of Europe and America was excited by a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon. This excitement was not confined to merchants, common sailors, sea-captains, shippers, and naval officers of all countries, but the governments of many states on the two continents were deeply interested."
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Current Tags: into-movie (2), action-adventure (1), exploration (1), aquatic (1), science fiction (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), Librivox (1), into-tv (1), submarine (1), sea adventure (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), into-video game (1), sea creatures (1)
Publications
| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | 1876-05-00 | Jules Verne | Ward, Lock and Tyler (The Youth's Library of Wonders and Adventures) | 2/-?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). |
octavo?5.5" by 8.5" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued |
novel |