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THE TOUR OF THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
by Verne, Jules
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About This Item
Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1873. First U. S. edition and first edition in English. Presumed first issue without the translator's name on title page. Basis for the 1956 movie "Around the World in Eighty Days" starring David Niven, Noel Coward, Jon Gielgud, et al. 16mo blue cloth boards decorated in gilt and blind; all edges red; Tissue-protected frontispiece drawing of "Le Saint Michel" (replicated on the cover in gilt). Very good with wear to spine and corners but front cover still quite bright.
Synopsis
Jules Verne, born at Nantes, France, in 1828, of legal and seafaring stock, was the author of innumerable adventure stories that combined a vivid imagination with a gift for popularizing science. Although he studied law at Paris, he devoted his life entirely to writing. His most popular stories, besides 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870), include: Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), A Trip to the Moon (1865), Around the World in Eighty Days (1872), and Michael Strogoff (1876). In addition, he was the author of a number of successful plays, as well as a popular history of exploration from Phoenician times to the mid-nineteenth century, The Discovery of the Earth (1878-80). After a long and active career in literature, Jules Verne died at Amiens, France, in 1905.
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- Quill & Brush
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53945
- Title
- THE TOUR OF THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
- Author
- Verne, Jules
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- James R. Osgood and Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1873
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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