SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY, AN ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE FOR THE PEOPLE. November 1873 - April 1874 (volume 7). Edited by J. G. Holland. New York: Scribner & Co., November 1873 - April 1874 (volume 7). Octavo, 6 issues, illustrated, original publisher's decorated maroon bevel-edged pebbled cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold and blind, yellow endpapers. Contributions by James T. Fields, George W. Cable, Celia Thaxter, Charles Dudley Warner, George MacDonald, Bret Harte, Richard Watson Gilder, Thomas Wentworth Higginson and others. Includes Frank R. Stockton's "The Great Air Line to the Moon," an illustrated history of the Baltimore Gun Club, adapted from Jules Verne's FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON. The April 1874 issue has the first installment of an illustrated serialization of the first part of Verne's "The Mysterious Island." Also present is "The Tachypomp," a science fiction story by Edward Page Mitchell. Cloth lightly worn at edges, some damp staining to several leaves of text, a very good copy. (#97324)