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Re: Sphinx of the Ice Fields - La esfinge de los hielos

From: Ernie Sjogren <esjogren~at~nc.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 20:18:46 -0500
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

Robert,

> ... the I.O. Evans-edited copy from the Fitzroy edition. These books are
notorious for being incomplete abridged editions.

This being so, I'll mention that two English versions are listed at:

www.bookfinder.com

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket; Le Sphinx des Glaces [Poe,
Verne]
Harmondsworth, Penguin. 1982. (ISBN: 0140430970) Mass Market Paperback,
Edited with an introduction & commentary, including Jules Verne's sequel Le
Sphinx des Glaces, by Harold Beaver. Cover edgeworn with a crease, pages
browning. Good. $3.00

The NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM OF NANTUCKET (& Jules Verne's Les Sphinx
Des Glaces & commentary) [Poe]
Publisher: Middlesex UK: Penguin Books English Library, 1976;
Library-pictorial boards-Perma. Very Good +. 1976 UK Reprint. Historical
Fiction. 7.5 x 4.25 (311 pages). CONDITION: Ex-library with few marks - none
on edges. Perma-bound pictorial boards. Some slight yellowing around page
edges. CONTENT: This edition provides not only the original Poe story, but
commentary, and the sequel by Jules Verne (Les Sphinx Des Glaces - in
English). "After reading an 1836 newspaper account of a shipwreck ... $15.00

The first is from a UK bookseller, the second from the US. If you have
trouble finding these listings, let me know, and I'll send you more
particulars.

These and a few other copies are also listed via

www.abebooks.com

The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has, acc. to their online
catalog, a copy of the Gregg Press edition, and of the Penguin edition
(Beaver, ed.). Perhaps you could get them through inter-library loan, if
you wish.

Best of success!

Ernie Sjogren
Received on Sat 16 Nov 2002 - 03:19:45 IST

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