Jules Verne-Peter Costello - Inventor Of Science Fiction, Hodder & Stoughton, 1978, 1st Edition

£10.00

A blue hardbacked book with dustjacket in fair condition. Everyone remembers Jules Verne for Around The World In Eighty Days and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea. In this vivid biography, the first full-length study of Verne to be written outside of France for many years, Peter Costello presents the man and the writer and relates the marvels of his futuristic novels to the actual discoveries and inventions that inspired them.

Condition: The book is in good condition with a creased corner to top right. Pencil notation to endpaper and discoloured lightly inside rear board. Price clipped dustjacket with couple of foxing spots inside. Foxing to top edge. Text firm and clean.

Weight 475g. Pages 239 with index.