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London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Low and Searle, 1873. First English Edition. Very Good. First British edition the first edition in the English language of Jules Verne's masterpiece of imagination. First published in French in 1870, this first edition in English was actually printed in late 1872, although the title page is dated 1873 as called for. 303pp + 8 ads. Bound in publisher's original green cloth stamped in black and gilt. Very Good with spine neatly recased with subtle repairs to joints, namely to the foot of the front joint and to the center of the rear joint, endsheets replaced. Cloth lightly rubbed with a small area of abrasion to the rear cover, contents tanned and lightly foxed. One of Verne's most enduring work, part adventure novel and part science fiction. Copies in the original cloth are scarce.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne, published in 1870. The story tells of Captain Nemo and the underwater adventures of his submarine, the Nautilus, as it goes around the world beneath the sea.

First editions will be in French and have been published by Pierre-Jules Hetzel with the title 'Vingt mille lieues sous les mers'. Later editions are often titled 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'. The first edition in English was published in November 1872 (but is dated 1873 to the title page and the publisher’s catalogue dated as 1872) which is before the more usual American first edition published by James Osgood in Boston in 1873.