This first fully illustrated American edition brings together the two separately issued French publications: De la terre à la lune, 1865 (From the Earth to the Moon) and Autour de la lune, 1869 (A Trip Around the Moon). He juxtaposed scientific achievement on the tapestry of human experience” ( Firsts, 1996:31). “Verne was not just a technological prophet. Jules Verne is widely held as “one of the two founding fathers of science fiction-the other being H.G. Octavo, original burgundy gilt-stamped pictorial cloth.įirst combined American edition and first hardcover American edition of Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon, And a Trip Around It-“the first interplanetary novel” to unite preparations for a trip to the moon and the return of its intrepid voyagers to earth-with 80 full-page illustrations, in original bright gilt cloth with the splendid image of a spaceship racing to the moon on its cover. “ONE OF THE DEFINITIVE FOUNDATION STONES OF THE SCIENCE FICTION GENRE”: JULES VERNE’S FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, 1874
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