Attractive book: A Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Unauthorized second American edition, intended as a cheaper version of Verne's classic science fiction novel. Boston: Henry L. Shepard & Co., circa 1874. Hardcover bound in the publisher's pictorial red cloth, 5.75 x 7.75, 294 pages. Book condition: VG/None, with minor edgewear and dog-ear folds to a few early pages.