Verne (Jules), the Mysterious Island, first American combined edition, Jules Verne, the Mysterious Island - the modern Robinson Crusoe, translated from the French by W. H. G. Kingston [but actually by his wife Agnes Kinloch Kingston] (Scribner, Armstrong, & Co., New York, 1876), first American combined edition of three parts of the work (previously published individually by Scribner's in 1875 and 1876), octavo, with numerous wood-engraved illustrations, in the publisher's pictorial gilt and black-blocked red cloth