How about the 1873 Osgood and Co Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas,
Salmon Cloth, with the Jelly Fish on the Cover.
$12,000 in the Catalogue Eighty, 1997 Sumner and Stillman
I heard it sold, too.
... Andrew Nash
At 07:50 AM 29/03/00 -0500, you wrote:
>A few months back I saw an abebooks listing of the Scribner Amstrong & Co.
>1876 edition of The Mysterious Island offered for sale for $5000. The price
>seems to be down now to $1500. Better information would concern not the asked
>price but at what price a sale was actually made. This information however is
>more difficult to obtain.
Andrew Nash, Toronto, Canada
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Received on Thu 30 Mar 2000 - 07:30:09 IST