[WYETH, N.C.] Michael Strogoff. A courier of the Czar. By Jules Verne. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons [1927]. Black cloth with spine stamped in gold and color pictorial label affixed to front. Color pictorial endpapers; color title page and 9 color plates. Spine ends and corners a tad rubbed, else a clean, tight copy in a remarkably bright example of the rare original color pictorial dust jacket (crease down spine, light rubbing to spine ends).

 

First edition thus. Wyeth’s magnificent illustrations give wonderful life to this little-known Jules Verne tale!