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The Tour of the World in Eighty Days
by Verne, Jules
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1880. Undated, ca. 1880. Heavily worn. Rust colored cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and black. Covers soiled and very rubbed, especially at the edges and with fraying to the corners and spine ends, good hinges, sound text block, pages age-toned but clean, names on preliminary blank, no other markings.. Hard Cover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 041619
- Title
- The Tour of the World in Eighty Days
- Author
- Verne, Jules
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- Belford, Clarke & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1880
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- SCIENCE FICTION SCI-FI NOVEL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
Terms of Sale
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East Granby, Connecticut
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Glossary
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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