{"id":24768,"date":"2025-03-19T10:38:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T15:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=24768"},"modified":"2025-05-12T17:47:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T22:47:03","slug":"library-addition-jules-vernes-little-blue-book-of-icy-peril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=24768","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Jules Verne&#8217;s Little Blue Book of Icy Peril"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though I have several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?tag=h-g-wells\">H. G. Wells first editions<\/a>, I have comparatively little by Verne. Not only do first English language editions of Verne <i>not<\/i> pop up at used bookstores in central Texas, I haven&#8217;t even chanced across any firsts of the Naval Institute Press translations (which evidently include material omitted from all previous translations).  Prior to this volume, the only Verne first I had was the Chambers edition of <b>Backwards to Britain<\/b>, which I think I bought for something like $7.99. The is the latest in Borderlands &#8220;Past Masters of Horror &#038; Fantasy&#8221; series. <\/p>\n<p>Verne, Jules (Tim Connair, editor). <b>A Little Blue Book of Icy Peril<\/b>. Borderlands Press, 2024. First edition hardback, #463 of 500 copies signed by the editor, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issue. Three novelette\/novella length stories (&#8220;A Drama in the Air,&#8221; &#8220;Winter amidst the Ice,&#8221; and &#8220;Ascent of Mount Blanc&#8221;) plus notes. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Vrene-Little-Blue-Icy-Peril-723x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"637\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Vrene-Little-Blue-Icy-Peril-723x1024.png 723w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Vrene-Little-Blue-Icy-Peril-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Vrene-Little-Blue-Icy-Peril-768x1088.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Vrene-Little-Blue-Icy-Peril.png 938w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have copies of this available in the next <a href=\"\/lame.html\">Lame Excuse Books<\/a> catalog. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though I have several H. G. Wells first editions, I have comparatively little by Verne. Not only do first English language editions of Verne not pop up at used bookstores in central Texas, I haven&#8217;t even chanced across any firsts of the Naval Institute Press translations (which evidently include material omitted from all previous translations). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[1973,2226,2755,2622,1970,499],"class_list":["post-24768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-borderlands-press","tag-jules-verne","tag-little-books","tag-science-fiction","tag-small-press-publishers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24768"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24973,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24768\/revisions\/24973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}