SAMPSON LOW SETS

Sampson Low History (i.e. History, Name Changes, and Address changes)

NOTE re Collecting Sampson Low books!

A fellow collector wrote:
"I have further evidence that Sampson Low dates are not reliable. I recently bought a green cover copy of A Flight to France dated 1888 on the title page. The catalogue at the front next to the half title has the last book published as A Flight to France.
However, there is another comprehensive Sampson Low catalogue in the back dated 1892 and another Jules Verne Catalogue with the last book listed as Cesar Cascabel! This means my copy was sold after the New and Cheaper edition from 1891 shown on your web page but mine is dated 1889 the same as a first!!!

My guess is that Sampson Low printed more copies in 1888 than they sold, then later issued them with a new catalogue and binding.

THUS, I dont think dates on the title page are definitive of when a book was bound or sold.

Sampson Low Publisher Series

SEE: Sampson Low Cover Progression from 1st edition to Pictorial Covers
Sampson Low 1st Edition Dustjackets (Not Technically a set, but rare enough to be shown!)			Sampson Low 1st Edition Plain Blue Cover with Gilt Spine Title 1923
Pears' Soap Edition (Pears Plain & Pears Banner)	Gilt Title (similar to Pears Plain)	Gilt Banner (similar to Pears Banner)	Grey Banner (similar to Pears Banner)	One Shilling, Jules Verne's Works Low's Authorized & Illustrated Edition
Dark Green New and Cheaper and more	The Macgregor Copyright Library for Boys	Art Deco	Celestial Spine - Pastedown Cover	Celestial Cover & Spine - Pastedown Cover
Adventure Dustjacket	Chronicles of the IMP Dustjacket	Colour Onion Dome / Taj Mahal Cover	Outline Onion Dome / Taj Mahal Cover	Colour Monkey in Amazon Cover
Outline Monkey in Amazon Cover	Colour Big Ship Cover	Outline Big Ship Cover	Small Ship - Sun Rays Cover	Small Ship Cover
Group of Explorers Cover	Plain Cover

Sampson Low 1st Edition Dustjackets
1880's books

1. Adrift in the Pacific (1889)
2. The Archipelago on Fire (1886)
3. Mathias Sandorf (1886) - heavily restored!
4. ...

Sampson Low 1st Edition
Plain Blue Cover with Gilt Spine Title
1923

The TRUE 1st UK Edition of these 3 titles, were published
with Plain Blue Covers. The Title on the Spine is in Gilt.

The books are undated, but DO have the 1794 Sampson Low Logo
on the Title page (thus 1924)

These are the 3 FIRST Editions

1. The Lighthouse at the End of the World
2. Their Island Home (Part 1: Second Fatherland)
3. The Castaways of the Flag (Part 2: Second Fatherland)

The following description of this "Series" was written by Andrew Cox Rare Books:

This is the extremely scarce and rarely seen True British First edition of this Jules Verne Adventure novel, it had been nearly ten years since Sampson Low had released a new Jules Verne novel in England, and in 1923 they released three, “The Lighthouse at the End of the World”, “Their Island Home” and “The Castaways of the Flag”, the initial copies of all three books were released in plain blue/plum cloth titled in gilt to the spines, only very small numbers were printed in this plain cloth, then in 1924 all three were then reissued as cheaper editions but with pictorial designs, its these editions that most dealers and collectors mistake for the First Edition, especially as the plain cloth Firsts are so scarce that most collectors have never seen them. The "Castaways" image is the rare British First Edition and is Illustrated with eight plates.

Pears' Soap Edition
Plain and Banner variants
Sampson Low (1880s,1890s)

Named because of the advertisement for Pears' Soap on the back cover.

There are 2 variants of the Pears Soap Edition, ALWAYS in RED

Ed: I have named them:

Pears Soap Plain	Pears Soap Banner

The Pears Soap Edition, are ALWAYS Red, and although there are other similar sized volumes (Gilt Banner, Grey Banner, & Gilt Title), the RED set is the only set with the Pears advertisement on the rear cover.

Comprehensive and detailed listing with cover images available here.

39 Books in this series:

Alphabetical

1. Abandoned (Mysterious Island, Part 2)
2. The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa
3. The Archipelago on Fire
4. Around the Moon (Round the Moon on Title page)
5. Around the World in Eighty Days
6. The Begums Fortune
7. The Blockade Runners
8. Burbank the Northerner (North Against South, Part 1)
9. The Captain of the Guidara (Keraban the Inflexible, Part 1)
10. The Child of the Cavern
11. The Clipper of the Clouds
12. The Cryptogrm (The Giant Raft, Part 2)
13. The Demon of Cawnpore (The Steam House, Part 1)
14. Dick Sands
15. Dr Ox's Experiment, Master Zacharius
16. Dropped From the Clouds (Mysterious Island, Part 1)
17. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (The Giant Raft Part 1)
18. Five Weeks in a Balloon
19. The Flight to France or The Memoirs of a Dragoon
20. A Floating City
21. From the Earth to the Moon
22. The Fur Country
23. Godfrey Morgan
24. The Green Ray
25. Hector Servadac
26. The Lottery Ticket
27. Martin Paz
28. Mathias Sandorf, Part 1
29. Mathias Sandorf, Part 2
30. Michael Strogoff
31. Scarpante the Spy (Keraban the Inflexible, Part 2)
32. The Secret of the Island (Mysterious Island, Part 3)
33. The Survivors of the Chancellor (Part 1 and 2 in 1 volume)
34. Texar the Southerner (North Against South, Part 2)
35. Tigers and Traitors (The Steam House, Part 2)
36. Tribulations of a Chinaman
37. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (Complete in 2 parts)
    
38. Vanished Diamond
39. A Winter Amid the Ice

Gilt Banner
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington Ltd

38 Books in this series:
(in THIS series, Mathias Sandorf is complete in 1 volume)

Alphabetical

1. Abandoned (Mysterious Island, Part 2)
2. The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa
3. The Archipelago on Fire
4. Around the Moon (Round the Moon on Title page)
5. Around the World in Eighty Days
6. The Begums Fortune
7. The Blockade Runners
8. Burbank the Northerner (North Against South, Part 1)
9. The Captain of the Guidara (Keraban the Inflexible, Part 1)
10. The Child of the Cavern
11. The Clipper of the Clouds
12. The Cryptogrm (The Giant Raft, Part 2)
13. The Demon of Cawnpore (The Steam House, Part 1)
14. Dick Sands
15. Dr Ox's Experiment, Master Zacharius
16. Dropped From the Clouds (Mysterious Island, Part 1)
17. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (The Giant Raft Part 1)
18. Five Weeks in a Balloon
19. The Flight to France or The Memoirs of a Dragoon
20. A Floating City
21. From the Earth to the Moon
22. The Fur Country
23. Godfrey Morgan
24. The Green Ray
25. Hector Servadac
26. The Lottery Ticket
27. Martin Paz
28. Mathias Sandorf (2 vol in 1) * This book is published as 1 volume
29. Michael Strogoff
30. Scarpante the Spy (Keraban the Inflexible, Part 2)
31. The Secret of the Island (Mysterious Island, Part 3)
32. The Survivors of the Chancellor (Part 1 and 2 in 1 volume)
33. Texar the Southerner (North Against South, Part 2)
34. Tigers and Traitors (The Steam House, Part 2)
35. Tribulations of a Chinaman
36. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (Complete in 2 parts)
37. Vanished Diamond
38. A Winter Amid the Ice

Grey Banner
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington Ltd

ONLY the 5 Titles listed here have been seen!:

Alphabetical

1. The Adventures of Three Englishmen & Three Russians (1886)
2. The Green Ray (1885)
3. Mathias Sandorf - Part 1 (1889)
4. Mathias Sandorf - Part 2 (1889)
5. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1888)

Gilt Title
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington Ltd

ONLY the 7 Titles listed here have been "seen"!:

Alphabetical

1. Around the Moon (nd) (Red and Green)
2. Burbank the Northerner (1891)
3. Clipper of the Clouds (1891)
4. Flight to France (1891)
5. From the Earth to the Moon (Not Seen - Assumed)
6. Texar the Southerner (1891)
7. Vanished Diamond (1891)

ed: Note the different covers on the above Blockade Runners editions
One has an image from the book, the other an image of Jules Verne!

Jules Verne's Works
One Shilling
1876-1890

Comprehensive and detailed listing with cover images available here

Frys Cocoa instead of Pears' Soap? - These books appear to always have a Fry's Cocoa ad on the back cover

These volumes are paperbound, and probably have a title set, similar to the above listing of Pears Soap Editions, by Sampson Low.

All of these have the publisher listed as
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, which puts the date of publication around 1876-1890 (Sampson Low History)

Comprehensive and detailed listing with cover images available here

Titles seen in this series: 

1. Adventures of Three Englishmen & Three Russians in South Africa
2. The Archipelago on Fire
3. Around the Moon
4. Around the World in Eighty Days
5. The Begum's Fortune
6. The Blockade Runners
7. - Alternate Cover
   The Blockade Runners - Jules Verne Cover
8. The Child of the Cavern
9. Dick Sands - Part 1
10. Dick Sands - Part 2
11. Dr Ox's Experiment, and Master Zacharius
12. Five Weeks in a Balloon
13. A Floating City
14. The Fur Country - Part 1
15. The Fur Country - Part 2
16. From the Earth to the Moon
17. The Giant Raft - Part 1 Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
18. The Giant Raft - Part 2 - The Cryptogram
19. The Green Ray
20. Hector Servadac - Part 1
21. Hector Servadac - Part 2
22. Keraban the Inflexible - Part 1 - Captain of the Guidara
23. Keraban the Inflexible - Part 2 - Scarpante the Spy
24. Martin Paz
25. Michael Strogoff - Part 1
26. Michael Strogoff - Part 2
27. The Mysterious Island - Part 1 - Dropped From the Clouds
28. The Mysterious Island - Part 2 - Abandoned
29. The Mysterious Island - part 3 - The Secret of the Island
30. The Survivors of the Chancellor ?Part 1?
31. The Survivors of the Chancellor ?Part 2?
32. Tribulations of a Chinaman
33. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Part 1 (Crab cover)
34. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Part 2 (Clam cover)
35. - Alternate Cover
    Twenty Thousand leagues Under the Sea - Part 2 (Nautilus window cover)
36. The Vanished Diamond
37. A Winter Amid the Ice

The following are assumed to exist, but have not yet been seen!

1. ?-Clipper of the Clouds
2. ?-The Flight to France
3. ?-Godfrey Morgan, A Californian Mystery
4. ?-The Lottery Ticket, A Tale of Tellemarken
5. ?-Mathias Sandorf - Part 1
6. ?-Mathias Sandorf - Part 2
7. ?-North Against South - Part 1 - Burbank the Northerner
8. ?-North Against South - Part 2 - Texar the Southerner
9. ?-The Steam House - Part 1 - Demon of Cawnpore
10. ?-The Steam House - Part 2 - Tigers & Traitors

Dark Green Cover
"New and Cheaper" and "non-first Second or Later Edtions"

There is more than 1 group of Dark Green covers!

The First that really seems like a "series" are "New and Cheaper" from about 1881 to 1893

Many have "Jules Verne" in a reverse slant font!

ALSO, the Title in Gilt on the cover has a distinctive Font!

The Macgregor Copyright Library for Boys
Sampson Low - 1895

1. Foundling Mick (nd - bookplate 96-97 and inscribed 1898)
2. Mistres Branican (nd - inscribed 1895)
3. Carpathian Castle (nd)
4. Claudius Bombarnac (nd - bookplate 1896)
5. The Floating Island (nd - 1897-ish!)
6. Captain Antifer (nd - 1897-ish)

Art Deco Heart
(1910-ish)

Sampson Low, Marston & Co.

1. Adrift in the Pacific
2. Archipelago on Fire
3. Tribulations of a Chinaman
4. ...

Sampson Low, Marston & Co.
Art Deco
Circa 1911 (Philip Hollaway)

Gilt title on spine

Titles seen in this series:

1. Abandoned
2. The Blockade Runners
3. The Child of the Cavern
4. Clipper of the Clouds
5. Demon of Cawnpore (Not Seen - Assumed)
6. Dropped From the Clouds
7. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
8. Five Weeks in a Balloon
9. From the Earth to the Moon
10. Round the Moon
11. Secret of the Island
12. Three Englishmen and Three Russians
13. Tigers and Traitors
14. ...

Paste Down / Celestial Spine
Sampson Low
Circa 1911 to 1914 (Philip Hollaway)

Authorized Copyright Edition (printed on cover)

7 Titles in this series include:

1. Abandoned (AN)
2. Dick Sands (this is a slight variation, see swirl on cover)
3. Dropped From the Clouds (AN)
4. Michael Strogoff (this is a slight variation, see swirl on cover) (AN)
5. The Secret of the Island (Version 1 - AN) Paste-down "The Duncan"
6. The Secret of the Island (Version 2 - 9th Edition on Title page)
   Paste-down "Cleaning the Canons" / Frontis "The Duncan"
7. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Spine Unique, NOT celestial)

Note: The Cover Pastedown is ALSO the Fronticpiece

Mysterious Island volumes Collection Andrew Nash
Dick Sands courtesy of Philip Hollaway

Note: Myststerious Island, in parts, ALSO appears in the "Celestial Cover" series

Ed: I group this 20k book as a celestial spine, but it is NOT.
It is a 20k UNIQUE FISH gilt spine decoration.
20k has NOT been seen with "just" the celestial spine!

If a 20k volume HAS a Celestial Spine, then it will also have a Celestial Cover!!!

This "Spine" was NOT used exclusively for Jules Verne!

Paste Down / Celestial Cover
Sampson Low
Circa 1914 to 1916 (Philip Hollaway)

The Cryptogram in my collection is inscribed Dec 24, 1917
The Clippter of the Clouds has been seen inscribed Dec 1915

Publisher Title Page Info:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & COMPANY. LTD.
Author's Copyright Edition
(The Cryptogram)

OR

SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & CO. LD.
New and Cheaper Edition
(The Clipper of the Clouds)

OR

SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & COMPANY
Limited
(Secret of the Island)

13 Titles in this series include:

1. The Adventures of Three Englishmen
2. Around the World in Eighty Days
3. The Clipper of the Clouds (AN) (Dec 1915 inscription seen)
4. The Cryptogram - Dec 24, 1917 inscription (AN)
5. Dick Sands
6. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (assumed)
7. Five Weeks in a Balloon
8. The Floating Island (inscribed 1918)
9. Godfrey Morgan
10. Michael Strogoff (AN) - Gilt Spine Title
11. Dropped from the Clouds (assumed)
12. Abandoned (assumed)
13. The Secret of the Island
14. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (AN)

Note: From my collection, 3 parts of Mysterious Island, and Michael Strogoff have the Paste-down AND the Celestial spine BUT do NOT have the Celestial design on the cover!

There are at least 4 variations of cover and spine details
Title in Black Cover Celestial in Colour (Like Red or Gray) Spine in Matching colour Spine Title Black
Title in Black Cover Celestial Gilt Spine Gilt Spine Title Gilt
Title in Black Cover Celestial in a Colour (Like Red or Grey) Spine in matching colour Spine Title Gilt
Title in Gilt Cover Celestial in Colour (Like Red or Grey) Spine in Gilt Spine Title Gilt

This cover was NOT used exclusively for Jules Verne!

Jules Verne's Works

1/-

Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd
100, Southwark St., S.E.

ED: This is the only dustjacket I have seen of this style, as of March 2022

Adventure Dustjacket Series

Sampson Low

Priced 1/6

Titles in this series include:

1. Archipelago on Fire - Big Ship Cover
2. Child of the Cavern
3. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon - Big Ship Cover
4. From the Earth to the Moon - Coll ANash - Monkey Jungle
   DJ "Chronicles of the IMP"
5. Texar the Southerner - Monkey Jungle Cover
6. ...

Ed: The Dustjacket is a Generic Jacket, in that my From the Earth to the Moon, has an image in the middle of the spine of a diver in a helmet!

Archipelago on Fire and Texar the Sourtherner both available from
Adrian Harrington Rare Books

Voyages Dustjacket Series
"Ever popular Books for Boys"

Sampson Low

The rear ad for the series says:
Jules Verne's Ever Popular Booys For Boys
Uniform with this Volume
(with an image of the Onion Dome/Taj cover !)

The Dustjackets were put over various style covers and NOT all the same.

The Dustjacket has been noted over "Onion Dome", "Monkey Jungle" and "Big Ship"

Titles covered with this Dustjacket inclue:

1. Adrift in the Pacific (with a RED banner)
2. Burbank the Northerner (2/6 on the spine)
3. Clipper of the Clouds (price 3 shillings on DJ)
4. From the Earth to the Moon
5. The Purchase of the North Pole
6. Round the Moon ("6" visible on DJ spine, so 2s6d)
7. Twenty Thousand Leauges Under the Sea
   (2s blacked out on spine, 2s6d on rear cover)
9. ...

2s or 2s6d blacked out on spine but 2s6d prominent on rear cover

Chronicles of the IMP Series
with Specific Title Dustjackets
Sampson Low

(Dustjacket page, a work in progress - November 2022)

In the late 1920's, Sampson Low issued Jules Verne books with a Dustjacket, that always had an ad on the back, advertising
The Chronicles of the IMP by Jeffery Farnol

Titles in this Series include:

1. The Abandoned - (Jeffery Farnol Ad, but NOT Imp) & IMP (2nd img)
2. Adrift in the Pacific (2 variations of Dustjacket) - Taj/Onion Dome
3. The Adventures of Three Englishmen
4. Around the World in Eighty Days
5. The Castaways of the Flag
6. The Clipper of the Clouds (2 variations of Dustjacket)
7. The Cryptogram
8. Dropped From the Clouds (1 Imp, 1 NOT Imp)
9. 800 Leagues On the Amazon (2 variations of Dustjacket - 1 a Taj cover)
10. End of Nana Sahib
11. Five Weeks in a Balloon
12. Flight to France
13. Floating City and The Blockade Runners (2 variations of Dustjacket)
14. Floating Island - Coll ANash - Monkey Jungle
15. From the Earth to the Moon (inscribed 1939) - Small Ship Cover
16. The Fur Country - Big Ship Cover
17. Lighthouse at the End of the World
18. Master of the World
19. Michael Strogoff
20. The Secret of the Island
21. Tribulations of a Chinaman
22. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (2 variations of Dustjacket)
23. The Vanished Diamond
24. A Winter Amid the Ice
25. ...

Go HERE for a Chart showing ALL known COLOUR and PLAIN OUTLINE covers

Colour - Onion Dome / Taj Mahal
Sampson Low.
Gilt Spine Circa 1914 to 1916 (Philip Hollaway)
Black Spine Circa 1917 to 1923 (Philip Hollaway)

In the mid to late teens (1915-1920) , Sampson Low published Jules Verne books with a "Taj Mahal / Onion Dome" type cover.

The covers come in both a Coloured Taj image as well as an Outline image on the basic cover!

The title page of these books is undated, but books have been observed with:

• a 1916 Xmas inscription
• a 1917 Xmas inscription
• a 1918 BookPlate for a school prize

The ONLY Titles with a Colour Taj Cover are:

1. Around the World in Eighty Days
2. The Clipper of the Clouds
3. Dropped From the Clouds
4. Five Weeks in a Balloon
5. The Lottery Ticket (and The Vanished Diamond)
6. The Lottery Ticket and The Begums Fortune
7. The Lottery Ticket (and The Flight to France)
8. The Lottery Ticket (and The Archipelago on Fire)
9. *** The Lottery Ticket*** Unclear if this exists on its own!

*** It is unclear if "The Lottery Ticket" exisits on its own without "another story" published with it?

The EARLIEST copies of the Colour Cover, has the title on the Spine in Gilt:

Plain Outline - Onion Dome / Taj Mahal
Sampson Low.
Circa 1924 to 1930 (Philip Hollaway)

The Outline Taj covers have ONLY been seen in Red Cloth

In the mid to late teens (1915-1920) , Sampson Low published Jules Verne books with a "Taj Mahal"/"Onion Dome" type cover.

The covers come in both a Coloured Taj image as well as an outline image on the basic cover!

Titles with this cover include:

1. Abandoned (Myst. Island)
2. (Adventures of) Three Englishmen Three Russians
3. Adrift in the Pacific
4. Around the World in Eighty Days - Coll ANash
5. The Clipper of the Clouds (seen with Prize plate-1923)
6. The Cryptogram
7. Dropped From the Clouds (Myst. Island) - Coll ANash with DJ
8. 800 Leagues Up the Amazon
9. Five Weeks in a Balloon
10. The Floating City and The Blockade Runners
11. The Floating Island
12. From the Earth to the Moon and a Trip Round It
13. Godfrey Morgan
14. Secret of the Island (Myst. Island)
15. The Tribulations of a Chinaman
16. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
17. The Vanished Diamond
18. A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Stories
    and also listed on the below dustjacket
    
19. The Child of the Cavern (assumed)
20. Hector Servadac (assumed)
21. Mathias Sandorf (assumed)
22. Survivors of the Chancellor (assumed)
23. Burbank the Northerner (assumed)
24. Texar the Southerner (assumed)
25. Purchase of the North Pole (assumed)
26. ...

Go HERE for a Chart showing ALL known COLOUR and PLAIN OUTLINE Taj / Monkey / Big Ship covers

Colour - Monkey Jungle
Sampson Low.
Gilt Spine Circa 1914 to 1916 (Philip Hollaway)
Black Spine Circa 1917 to 1923 (Philip Hollaway)

The covers come in both a Coloured Jungle image as well as an outline image on the basic cover!

The ONLY titles with COLOUR Taj/Onion Dome:

1. The Adventures of Three Englishmen
2. Burbank the Northerner
3. The Child of the Cavern
4. The Cryptogram
5. From the Earth to the Moon
6. Hector Servadac
7. Purchase of the North Pole
8. The Secret of the Island
9. Texar the Southerner
10. Tigers and Traitors
11. Round the Moon
12. The Vanished Diamond

Tigers and Traitors, Adventures of..., Cryptogram: Images courtesy of James Keeline (External Facebook link)

Title: Purchase...: verified by Tim Lucas

Plain Outline - Monkey Jungle
Sampson Low.
Circa 1924 to 1930 (Philip Hollaway)

The ONLY Titles seen in Plain Outline Monkey Jungle covers:

1. The Clipper of the Clouds
2. The End of Nana Sahib (Part 1: Steam House)
3. The Floating Island - Coll ANash
4. Hector Servadac
5. The Secret of the Island
6. The Vanished Diamond
7. A Winter Amid the Ice

This OUTLINE cover was NOT used exclusively for Jules Verne!

And with DJ!

Note: This volume, Andre Laurie, includes the 1928 Sampson Low,
Jules Verne Anniversary 5 page Bio

Colour Big Ship Cover
Sampson Low, Martson & Co Ltd.
Gilt Spine Circa 1914 to 1916 (Philip Hollaway)
Black Spine Circa 1917 to 1923 (Philip Hollaway)

The covers come in both a Coloured Ship image as well as an outline image on the basic cover!

I do not know if there is a difference in price between the 2

One dustjacket shown to the left

Price 1'6p

1. Abandoned
2. Adrift in the Pacific
3. The Archipelago on Fire
4. The Blockade Runners
5. 800 Leagues up the Amazon
6. A Floating City
7. The Floating Island
8. Godfrey Morgan
9. Mathias Sandorf
10. Survivors of the Chancellor
11. Twenty Thouand Leagues Under the Sea

Title: Archipelago...: verified by Tim Lucas

Plain Outline - Big Ship
Sampson Low.
Circa 1924 to 1930 (Philip Hollaway)

The ONLY titles with Plain Outline Big Ship:

1. Abandoned
2. Adrift in the Pacific
3. Around the World in Eighty Days
4. The Clipper of the Clouds
5. Dick Sands, The Boy Captain
6. Dropped From the Clouds
7. 800 Leagues Up the Amazon
8. Five Weeks in a Balloon
9. The Flight to France
10. A Floating City
11. The Floating City and the Blockade Runners
12. The Fur Country
13. Godfrey Morgan
14. Hector Servadac
15. Michael Strogoff
16. The Mystery of the Franklin
17. Secret of the Island
18. Three Englishmen and Three Russians
19. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
20. The Vanished Diamond

This cover was NOT used exclusively for Jules Verne!

Small Ship Cover - Sun Rays
Sampson Low
Circa 1917 to 1923 (Philip Hollaway)

The Covers of this version of the Small Ship covers, have Yellow printed Sun Rays eminating from the Ship.

These covers can have Gilt or Black and the text on the Spine can be Gilt or Black

The order of publication, is probably:

1. Ship with Sun Rays on cover - Gilt title on cover AND Gilt Lettering on Spine
2. Ship with Sun Rays on cover - Black title on cover AND Spine with Gilt Lettering
3. Ship with Sun Rays on cover - Cover AND Spine with Black Lettering

Ed: I assume the Titles of covers with Sun Rays come with both Gilt and Black spines Adrift in the Pacific Archipelago on Fire - Gilt Spine The Adventures of Three Englishmen - Gilt spine Around the World in Eighty Days - Gilt Spine Clipper of the Clouds - Gilt Spine Cryptogram - Gilt Spine Five Weeks in a Balloon - Gilt Spine The Floating Island - Black Spine For the Flag - Gilt & Black Spine The Tribulations of a Chinaman - Gilt Spine Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Black Spine ...

Note that if the Spine is Gilt, then there are also 2 wheatsheaf/Spear blind stamps on the cover. These do NOT appear on the Black lettered Spine Covers!

Ed Note: I have found images for ONLY the Spines of
Archipelago on Fire: Gilt Lettering on Spine

The cover is NOT unique to Jules Verne titles:

Small Ship Cover - Plain (NO Sun Rays)
Sampson Low
Circa 1930 to 1940s (Philip Hollaway)

These covers can have the Title on the Cover, or NO Title on the Cover

• Ship with NO Sun Rays on cover - Spine with Black Lettering & Design
• Ship with NO Sun Rays on cover and NO title on cover

An example has been seen inscribed 1934

Seen with DustJacket (Michael Strogoff) SEE DustJacket entry below!
Rear of DustJacket says:
The Following "Boys' Stories of School and Adventure" are published Uniform with this volume.
Ed: See list in the Below Dust Jacket entry!

The titles seen in this series include:

1. Abandoned (assumed)
2. Adrift in the Pacific
3. Archipelago on Fire
4. Clipper of the Clouds (Inscr 1934)
5. The Cryptogram
6. Dropped From the Clouds
7. Eight Hundred Leagues Up the Amazon
8. Five Weeks in a Balloon
9. The Floating Island
10. For the Flag
11. From the Earth to the Moon and Trip Round It
12. Michael Strogoff
13. Mystery of the 'Franklin'
14. The Secret of the Island (assumed)
15. Twenty Thousnad Leagues under the Sea
16. ...

This series may also come with a dustjacket

Ed Note: I have not personally seen the copy of For the Flag, but it was listed as being "Fully Illustrated" and its title page is in the style of a title page from the late 1800's

The cover is NOT unique to Jules Verne titles:

Dust Jacket of
Boys' Stories of School and Adventure
Sampson Low

This dustjack has been seen with Michael Strogoff and the rear of the Dustjacket says:
The Following "Boys' Stories of School and Adventure" are published Uniform with this volume.
The cover under the Michael Strogoff Dustjacket was "Small Ship"!

The titles listed on the Dust Jacket in this series include:

1. Abandoned
2. Around the World in 80 Days
3. The Cryptogram
4. Dick Sands
5. Dropped From the Clouds
6. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
7. End of Nana Sahib
8. Five Weeks in a Balloon
9. Flight to France
10. A Floating City and Blockade Runners
11. From the Earth to the Moon and a Trip Round It
12. Fur Country
13. Godfrey Morgan
14. Hector Servadac
15. The Lighthouse at the End of the World
16. Master of the World
17. Michael Strogoff
18. Mystery of the Franklin
19. Secret of the Island
20. Their Island Home
21. Tribulations of a Chinaman
22. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

Other Authors were also issued in this series

Each of the Explorers books, came with a Dust Jacket.
Images below:

Group of Explorers
Sampson Low
Circa 1924 to 1930 (Philip Hollaway)

Titles in this series include:

1. Adrift in the Pacific
2. Burbank the Northerner
3. The Child of the Cavern
4. The Clipper of the Clouds
5. The Floating Island
6. Secret of the Island (175pgs/32Ads)
7. Texar the Southerner A Tale of the American Civil War
8. Tigers and Traitors
9. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
10. ...

Plain Cover
Sampson Low
Circa 1940 to 1950 (Philip Hollaway)

These later printings of Jules Verne titles, have plain covers (some with titles, others, only the title on the spine)

The following titles have been seen with these plain covers:

1. Clipper of the Clouds
2. Dropped From the Clouds
3. The End of Nana Sahib
4. The Floating Island
5. The Vanished Diamond
6. A Winter Amid the Ice
7. ...