It may have preceded the earlier 1874 Scribner, Armstrong 110-page double column edition published as THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND. The American Catalogue dates this unauthorized Shepard edition 1874 and it definitely preceded the 310-page Scribner, Armstrong edition published in 1875 as THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND: DROPPED FROM THE CLOUDS. Kingston (here uncredited) of L'ILE MYSTÉRIEUSE: LES NAUFRAGÉS DE L'AIR (1874). Ferat), original pictorial terra cotta cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold, yellow coated endpapers. 5-202, flyleaves at front and rear, 42 full-page illustrations (re-engraved after drawings by J. Uncommon early American printing, roughly coinciding with the 1st Scribner edition Shepard did not print parts 2 or 3 in book form. Scattered light soiling to contents a few pages with short closed margin tears. A few pencil notations and sums in a young student's hand. Illustrated with 42 woodcuts printed single side. Several signatures starting and somewhat tenuously attached mild internal splits at two locations mid book. Leather rubbed at corners and over spine edges. Bookplate of a university Belle Lettres society is mounted to the front pastedown.
Contents resewn with original binding thread holes visible in the gutters. In a period 19th century 1/2 leather over marbled boards rebinding with gilt title lettering tooled to spine.
12mo 7" - 7½" tall 202 pages The first part of Verne's 3 part Mysterious Island, published by Shepard presumably as a pirated edition and to boost sales of their new magazine "American Homes" - an ad at the rear of the book touts the appearance of Part 2 in the current issue.
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