yet another lost children's book

June 6, 2010 9:44 AM

I am looking for information -- author, publisher, possibly title -- about a particular illustrated version of Verne's From the Earth to the Moon.

My search has to this point been frustrated by the profusion of competing editions. The one I have in mind, anyway, which is to say the one I remember from my youth, is a picture book or a children's book with intricate full-page color illustrations of Tampa Town, the projectile's interior, and the actual firing, as well as amusing grotesques of members of the Baltimore Gun Club, with their missing limbs and jaws and so on. It's not formatted like a comic book, though I believe there're more pictures than text. I'm not sure whether it's called "From the Earth to the Moon" or "A Trip to the Moon and Around it" or something else.

posted by flechsig to Media & Arts (4 answers total)

In which decade do you recall reading it?
posted by iconomy at 3:14 PM on June 6, 2010

Response by poster: The mid-80s. The book itself probably comes from the mid-70s.
posted by flechsig at 3:57 PM on June 6, 2010

Perhaps try looking through Google Images to see if one rings a bell? There are a few there, along with covers too...
posted by DrtyBlvd at 3:41 AM on June 7, 2010

Response by poster: Yeah, I've done that a few times, which is why I suspect it's under some other title.
posted by flechsig at 8:09 AM on June 7, 2010