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From: Roger W Torstenson <rtorstenson~at~earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:29:18 -0500 (EST)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

I really doubt whether the U.K. market was much smaller than the U.S. market; we are talking about the 1870s primarily -- the U.S. was still in relative infancy as far as growth. London was the most populous city in the world at the time.
It would be an interesting study to attempt to determine how many books were wiped out by the bombings of London in World War II. Peter Costello, if he can be reached, may have a good idea of print runs in the U.K.; he mentions about 6000 copies for Clovis Dardentor (albeit 1897) in his Verne biography.


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From: "KUTZERA, BRIAN" <BRIKUT~at~SAFECO.com>
To: 'Jules Verne Forum' <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>
Sent: March 23, 2000 3:57:03 PM GMT
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This is a great question and is important to collectors who want to rank
books according to rarity. I once made some call to find out if Scribner's
still had records of these thing but I got nowhere. I was also thinking of
doing research at the Grollier (book collectors) Club in New York as I would
guess they have some great research materials in their library. I believe
that the numbers exist for the Hetzel editions but can't recall where I saw
them. Other collectors have told me that Sampson Low printings would have
been materially smaller than US printings as the UK market was smaller.

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From: John Breyer [mailto:jbreyer~at~GAMMA.IS.TCU.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 1:04 PM
To: Jules Verne Forum
Subject: No subject was specified.


Does anyone know where to get sales figures or printing runs for
English, American and French editions of Journey to the Centre of the
Earth in the 1860s, 1870s and 1880s?

I am curious as to how widely read JCE was at this time. I suspect that
like today most of the public got their ideas on geology (science) from
mass media (books and newspapers then; TV, books and films now). I want
to compare Verne's geology with what was being taught in universities
and colleges in America at that time.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
John Breyer
Received on Thu 23 Mar 2000 - 20:29:48 IST

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