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Indes Noirs - 1877

Black Indies - 1877

[Voyages Extraordinaires #16 - 1 Volume - L'Europe]

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Bibliographic
Reference
French
(J-M Margot)
Jules Verne
Encyclopedia
Myers
Bibliography
Galagher
Bibliography
 
IO
V017
M10
A43

Alternate English Titles:

    Black Diamonds
    Black Indies

    Child of the Cavern
    Child of the Cavern or Strange Doings Underground 
    Underground City (The)

Plot Synopsis: 
(courtesy of D. Kytasaari - http://epguides.com/djk/JulesVerne/works.shtml)
The old Aberfoyle mine in Scotland, that was thought to have been mined out ten years earlier is reactivated, when a dedicated old miner, Simon Ford, makes an astonishing discovery. He contacts the old manager of the mine, James Starr, and the discovery leads to a large vein of coal that will take generations to mine out. Soon the New Aberfoyle mine is opened and everyone begins to profit again; however, a mysterious "goblin" threatens the entire mine.

Book Collecting Information:
Hetzel Editions:
First UK
Editon
  The Child of the Cavern; or Strange Doings Underground
1877
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
London

Pictorial Brown cloth (Gray cloth shown!)
Translated by W. H. G. Kingston (who also wrote the preface)
Published: October 1877

First US
Edition
 book The Black Indies
(1877)
George Munro

Quarto edition of Munro's Seaside Library, No. 5
Published: May 1877

Other Editions:
1878
Child of the Cavern
1878
Sampson Low
London
1882 (not certain)
Child of the Cavern
1882
Sampson Low
London

"Authors Illustrated Edition"

[1883]

Underground City or the Child of the Cavern
[1883]
Porter and Coates
Philadelphia

Translated by W. H. G. Kingston
Fully illustrated

green copy inscribed 1884

1883

Child of the Cavern
1883
Sampson Low
London

3rd Edition

1888
The Child of the Cavern
1888
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
London

"Pears Soap" edition

Author's Illustrated Edition

Translated by W. H. G. Kingston

10 illustrations

174 pages

Pears Soap Edition description

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1888
The Child of the Cavern
1888
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
London

"Pears Soap" edition

Author's Illustrated Edition

Translated by W. H. G. Kingston

10 illustrations

174 pages

Pears Soap Edition description

The Black-Indies
xxxx
George Munro, Publisher
New York

Vol 1, No. 5

"Single Number"

10 Cents (also seen with 15 Cent Paste-over)

"The only Unabridged Library Edition Published"

Collection Andrew Nash

1891
Child of the Cavern, or Strange Doings Underground
1891
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
London

"Pears Soap" edition

Author's Illustrated Edition

Translated by W. H. G. Kingston

10 illustrations

174 pages

Pears Soap Edition description

nd?
Child of the Cavern, or Strange Doings Underground
nd?
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
London

Jules Verne's Works
Low's Authorized & Illustrated Edition

1892
Child of theCavern
1892
Sampson Low Marston and Co Ltd
London

Fourth edition

Child of theCavern
nd
Sampson Low, Marston and Co., Ltd
London

Monkey - Jungle Cover

The Underground City
nd
Porter and Coates
Philadephia
nd
Underground City
nd
Porter and Coates
Philadelphia 

Alta Edition
brown and gray shown

Black Diamonds
1964
ARCO Publications
London

Fitzroy Edition
Dustjacket

Black Diamonds
nd - copyright 1961
Associated Booksellers
Westport, Conn.

187 pages plus a Verne Poem IN French Jack Ryan's Song pg 189 & 190

Wikipedia: Souvenirs d’Écosse

Sans doute écrite lors du voyage en Écosse en compagnie d'Hignard en 1859. Jules Verne la reprend, modifiée dans Les Indes noires où elle est chantée par Jack Ryan

oppostie the Title page is a list of 20 Fitzroy Edition titles, with Black Diamonds being the last on the list.

Back of Dustjacket ad for The Fitzroy Edition

Fitzroy Edition
Dustjacket unclipped $3.00

Collection Andrew Nash

1964

Black Diamonds
A Land of dark terror in the bowels of the earth
nd-copyright 1964
A Panther Book
Great Britain

191 pages

0 illustrations

Opposite the Title page a list of 3 other Jules Verne Panther books

2 page I O Evans intro

price 3'6

Collection Andrew Nash

2005
The Underground City
2005
Luath Press Limited
Edinburgh

Set underneath Loch Katrine

A new translation of the complete text with illustrations

Translated by Sarah Crozier
with a forward by Professor Ian Thompson

ISBN-10: 184282080X
ISBN-13: 978-1842820803 ( Buy from Amazon )

Collection Andrew Nash

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