Verne, Jules — Michael Strogoff: Courier to the Czar

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. This is called a "classic" for good reason. Another in a series of classic children's book titles, an addition to the Scribner Illustrated Classics for Children, published by Charles Scribner's Sons. Black cloth over boards, rubbed gilt lettering to spine. Very slightly wavy text-block, very slight dampstaining to a short range of pages up front, dissipating quickly, but signs of neither moisture nor odor. Augmented greatly with the illustrations of N.C. Wyeth, full-color, including at title page, and with lovely duotone endpapers front and rear and full-cover, full-color pasted-on paper label to front cover, quite fine. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned interiors, minimal rubbing to extremities, light foxing here and there. vii [2], 3-395 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good