From The Earth To The Moon. London: Ward Lock & Co., 1925. Later Printing. Pp 189, [2]. Frontispiece plate. Publishers green cloth boards, lettered in black with pictorial panel to upper cover. A nice bright copy.

First published in English in 1873, Verne’s 1865 tale of a trip to the moon had science fiction becomes science over a hundred  years later. Apollo 11 had a three-person crew, just as Verne’s did; and both blasted off from the American state of Florida.