Deux Ans de Vacances - 1888
Two Year Vacation - 1889
(commonly: Adrift in the Pacific)
 
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Jules Verne
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Alternate English Titles:
Plot Synopsis:
(courtesy of D. Kytasaari - http://epguides.com/djk/JulesVerne/works.shtml)
A group of boys find themselves adrift at sea, and after a terrible storm they are cast upon a deserted island, where they must learn to get along together to survive.
Book Collecting Information:
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First UK Serial Edition - 1888-1889
Boys Own
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Adrift in the Pacific; or The Strange Adventures of a Schoolboy Crew
Boys Own Annual (Volume XI - 1888/89)
Boys Own
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First UK Editon - 1889:
Deluxe Binding with Colour on Cover AND with Dustjacket
 
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Adrift in the Pacific
1889
Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington
London
part 1 - 151 pages
part 2 - 142 pages
Each part numbered separately
1 Title page
1 Table of Contents AND 1 List of Illustrations at front of book
49 illustrations
A Dustjacket HAS been seen
Below Image courtesy of Andrew Cox Rare Books
Ed: Gorgeous!!!
DJ edition - Collection Andrew Nash
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1889 review - Spoilers!
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***Spoilers ***
Nov 16, 1889, Page 42 - Review in The Spectator, Australia
Adrift in the Pacific. By Jules Verne. (Sampson Low and Co.)
This tale calls, as may be supposed, for something more than the cursory notice which we gave it in the magazine volume in which it first appeared. A number of boys who are preparing for a holiday trip in a yacht, are cut adrift by the foolish act of one of their number, and are driven by storms to an island in the Pacific. On this they manage to land, and here they spend a Crusoe existence for some two years. The author places the scene of his story somewhere off the coast of Chili. Hanover Island is the precise spot, and we are not prepared to say that it does not correspond to the description of the boys' island home. We feel, however, pretty sure that it does not contain a lake out of which ran "many streams." Is there such a lake in the world? M. Verne's climatology, too, is at fault, for once. Hanover Island is in S. lat. 51°, and may have the rigorous winter which is described. But a winter of five months is certainly not known in New Zealand, which does not reach further south than 450. The story is very brisk, and even exciting. The party have many adventures. They have even something like a civil war, which, however, is soon happily brought to a close. And then they have war in earnest with some mutineers. Finally, they all return home in safety, and find, it is to be hoped, that their places have not been filled up during their two years' absence.
***Spoilers ***
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First UK Edition - 1889
Standard Edition (less illustrations - 10)
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Adrift in the Pacific
1889
Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington
London
part 1 - 151 pages
part 2 - 142 pages
Each part numbered separately
2 Title pages
2 Table of Contents AND 2 List of Illustrations
10 illustrations
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First US Edition - 1887 - Paperback:
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A Two Years' Vacation
1887
Geo. Munro
New York
Seaside Library Pocket Edition
No. 157
Price 20 Cents
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| First US Edition - 1889 - Bromfield & Company
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Adrift in the Pacific
1889
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington Limited
St. Dunston's House
Fretter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C.
London
Bromfield & Company
658, Broadway
New York
part 1 - 151 pages
part 2 - 142 pages
Each part numbered separately
2 Title pages
2 Table of Contents AND 2 List of Illustrations
10 illustrations
Ed: YES - THIS is the 1st US Edition.
Published from the Sampson Low Sheets, but with the Bromfield information added to the Title page, below the Sampson Low information
Note: the 1889 is moved to below the Bromfield information!
Ed: Sampson Low must have made a deal with this small (?) U.S. Publisher around this time. THIS is the only Bromfield, Verne, 1st edition that I know of.
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1890
U.S. English Serial |
Adrift in the Pacific; or
The Strange Adventures of a Schoolboy Crew
February 23, 1890 to March 14, 1890
The Boston Globe
Boston, Massachusetts
The translation begins:
"Chapter I
The Storm
It was the 9th of March, 1860, and 11 o'clock at night.
The sea and sky were as one, and the eye could peirce but a few fathoms into the gloom. Through the raging sea, over shich the waves broke with a livid light, a little ship was driving under almost bare poles."
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| 1893 - New and Cheaper Edition
 
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Adrift in the Pacific
1893
Sampson Low, Marston, & Company Limited
St Dunstan's House
Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C.
London
New and Cheaper Edition
Illustrated (10 images)
Bookplate:
The Order of the Sons of Temperence
National Division of Great Britain and Ireland
Cadet's Prize Competition
1895
- Note: Bottom of spine - Sampson Low & Co
Small - half-height "&" (Co same level)
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| 1894 - New and Cheaper Edition
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Adrift in the Pacific
1894
Sampson Low, Marston, & Company Limited
St Dunstan's House
Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C.
London
New and Cheaper Edition
2 MINOR spine variants:
- Small - half-height "&" (Co same level)
- Tall "&" same size as "C" and Co with High "o"
Collection Andrew Nash
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nd - New and Cheaper Edition
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Adrift in the Pacific
nd
Sampson Low, Marston, & Company Limited
St Dunstan's House
Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C.
London
New and Cheaper Edition
Illustrated
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nd-1910/1912
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Adrift in the Pacific
1910
Sampson Low Marston and Co
London
inscribed 1912
Art Deco Heart Series
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nd
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Adrift in the Pacific
nd
Sampson Low
London
Big Ship COLOUR Cover
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circa 1920's
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Adrift in the Pacific
circa 1925
Readers Library
London
Shown with dustjacket
Dustjack designed by Albert Morrow (?)
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1925
  
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Adrift in the Pacific
1925
Sampson Low, Marston and Company
London
Excellent Dustjacket, with story teaser
Below Dustjacket,
Taj Mahal / Onion Dome cover
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nd
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Adrift in the Pacific
nd
Sampson Low
London
2/6 on spine (and on cover of DJ?)
Small Ship Cover
Voyages DJ
Ed: Unsuire if THIS dustjacket is really paired
with this small ship cover.
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1964
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Adrift in the Pacific
(part 1 of Two Year Vacation)
1964
Arco Publications
London
Shown with Dustjacket
Fitzroy Edition
Second Year Ashore
(part 2 of Two Year Vacation)
1964
Arco Publications
London
Shown with Dustjacket
Fitzroy Edition
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Adrift in the Pacific
(part 1 of Two Year Vacation)
nd - copyright 1964
Associated Booksellers
Westport, Conn
186 pages
0 illustrations
Opposite the Title page a list of 32 titles in The Fitzroy Edition
Copyright 1964 in England by
Arco Publications
Back of dustkjacket an ad for The Fitzroy Edition
Associated Booksellers
Westport, Conn.
Fitzroy Edition
Dustjacket clipped (3.95 in pencil)
Collection Andrew Nash
Second Year Ashore
(part 2 of Two Year Vacation)
nd - copyright 1964
Associated Booksellers
Westport, Conn
190 pages
0 illustrations
Dustjacket
Fitzroy Edition
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1967
Also a Library Binding:
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A Long Vacation
1967
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc
and
Oxford University Press
New York
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1967
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A Long Vacation
1967
Oxford
UK
shown with dustjacket
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1970
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Adrift in the Pacific
(part 1 of Two Year Vacation)
1970
Associated Booksellers
Bridgeport, Conn
186 pages
0 illustrations
Fitzroy Edition
Dustjacket clipped (3.95 in pencil)
Second Year Ashore
(part 2 of Two Year Vacation)
1970
Associated Booksellers
Bridgeport, Conn 06606
190 pages
0 illustrations
Blue cloth below the dustjacket, with a very square spine
Opposite the Title page a list of 32 title in The Fitzroy Edition
Copyright Arco Publications 1964
Back of Dustjacket a list of 34 titles by Jules Verne
$3.00 each
Associated Booksellers
Bridgeport Comm 06606
Fitzroy Edition
Dustjacket clipped ($3.95 in pencil)
"Second Yr ..." - Collection Andrew Nash
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