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London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, no date [circa 1897]. [Science Fiction] EARLY EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 382 [2]. With 79 illustrated plates including a frontispiece by Benett. Recently re-cased in publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles and pink and blue decoration to spine and upper, with new cream endpapers. Bookseller's label to front pastedown. Strong tobacco scent. Spotting to frontispiece tissue guard. Heavily cocked. Very heavy rubbing to cloth, with most colour lost from the spine. Good. A novel following a string quartet resident on a giant moving island populated by millionaires enjoying a perpetual cruise around the Pacific. First published in 1895, with an English edition appearing in 1896.