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Author:	Jules Verne
Title:	Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
English Title:	Voyage au centre de la Terre
Publisher:	Scottie
Country:	UK
Date:	1956
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction, Travel
Translator:	anonymous
Cat#:	J11
Total Editions:	10
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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Notes

"scottie books" around head of terrier holding a book in mouth logo

scottie books are published by transworld publishers ltd.
park royal road, london, n.w.10. (uk)

made and printed in great britain by love & malcomson ltd., redhill.

first published in 1864
first english edition published 1872
scottie edition published 1956
("this anonymous translation was published in 1872; it has been slightly edited and abridged for this scottie books edition.")

192pp. small format p/b (merkin small mmpb format) including 8pp. titles, indica, table of chapters, etc; 5 end pp. advertising, 4 for
four scottie books including "biggles follows on" w. e. johns, "the star raiders" donald suddaby, 1 for a corgi special title, "test pilot" neville duke).
sewn in signatures, glued into card covers
cover art uncredited
cover price 2'-

Comments and Reviews


ppint. 12th Jan 2019		reference copy provided courtesy of tony at the old pier bookshop, morecambe seafront.



ppint. 8th Jun 2024		at least three near-identical printings with rising cover prices, not fully reported/recorded: the material copyright noted as ©1965 in the thomas bouregy/airmont books indicia is the forward by robert a. w. lowndes ("doc lowndes") 1965 cat# CL60 no sbn (not yet invented) cover price 50¢ 256pp. including titles, indicia,forward etc. ... (1972??) cat# CL60 cover price 75¢ ... (c.1979 ?) cat# CL60 (cover price liable to've been c.95¢-$1.25) ... 6/1982 cat# CL60 isbn 0-8049-0060-4 cover price $1.50 front & back cover images provided by oldmod67 above (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 11th Dec 2023		@oldmod67 yes, although it's not a special secret merkin code; it's the printer's printing job date. earlier airmont reprintings use the n-nn or nn-nn format - the initial ''19'' of the year is implicit - and the last of the airmont reprintings i've seen (c. 1978) do not bear a printer's date thus at all. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



OldMod67 23rd Sep 2023		@ppint- p253 contains code 6/82. Is this the American print code you speak of? The reverse of tp just lists the 1965 copyright. 256pp is correct, from title page to last of Airmont Classics listing. No blanks. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 23rd Sep 2023		thomas bouregy & co. airmont books small format trade p/b first printing, of first p/b edition airmont classic series uses the first english translation, published by griffith and farran in h/cvr (1871 or 1872), q.v. nf introduction by robert a. w. lowndes cover art unsigned, uncredited, still as-yet unattributed sfaik cover price 95¢ 256pp. including titles, indicia, introduction, etc, end pp. advertising last or penultimate page of text usually bears the printer's job (abbreviation of) date printed highly unlikely to boast an sbn, let alone an isbn - this is prob'ly an amazoniclasm, as the sbn wasn't invented 'til later in the sixties - until a considerably later printing; the cover shown is of a later reprinting. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



OldMod67 27th Nov 2022		'The cover shows a detail from The Great Day of His Wrath (after John Martin) by C. Mottram, by courtesy of Christopher Wood Gallery, London/Bridgeman Art Gallery' This is an 1857 hand coloured engraving, the cover actually showing a reverse of the original image. A nice gloss finish here making a fantastic cover for what was a £1 classic! (this comment is from another edition of this book)



OldMod67 27th Nov 2022		Introduction by Robert A. W. Lowndes. Due to character name changes, this is sometimes known as the 'Hardwigg' translation (1871) This translation begins 'Looking back to all that has occured to me..' (this comment is from another edition of this book)