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

From: Brian Taves <btav~at~loc.gov>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:42:26 -0500 (EST)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

This edition doesn't even rise to the level of an edited version of
Verne's book, like the Fitzroy edition; it simply has a few fragments.

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Ernie Sjogren wrote:

> 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

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Received on Mon 18 Nov 2002 - 17:43:31 IST

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