signed first edition Hardcover
1962 · New York
by Verne, Jules; Ray Bradbury (introduction); Edward A. Wilson (illustrator)
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very good+ condition. Quarto. xiv,(2) 268 (2)pp. English vellum spine, gold leaf label lettered in black, over blue marbled paper covered boards. Housed in publisher's parchment and blue cardboard slipcase. Illustrated with a color frontispiece, title page vignette, and numerous colored text drawings. Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies (this is #1363), printed by Saul & Lillian Marks at their Plantin Press. Signed on the limitation leaf by the illustrator Edw. Wilson. This copy lacks the glassine dust jacket. Spine label very lightly rubbed and slipcase lightly sunned at edges and missing the spine label?
(Inventory #: 50426)