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AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS.
by Verne, Jules; illustrated by Barry Moser
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very near fine in green cloth, with a blind stamped sailing ship scene and ruled borders, gilt lettering on the spine in a fine /green cloth, with a blind stamped sailing ship scene and ruled borders, gilt lettering on the spine in a fine
- ISBN 10
- 0688075088
- ISBN 13
- 9780688075088
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About This Item
New York:: Books of Wonder / William Morrow & Company, Inc.,, (1988). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in green cloth, with a blind stamped sailing ship scene and ruled borders, gilt lettering on the spine in a fine dust jacket.. First printing. Verne's classic adventure novel, originally published in 1873, in an edition beautifully illustrated by Barry Moser with 16 full page watercolor paintings. Translated from the French by George Makepeace Towle; afterword by Peter Glassman. xii, 242 pp. Endpaper maps of the world.
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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- Title
- AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS.
- Author
- Verne, Jules; illustrated by Barry Moser
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine in green cloth, with a blind stamped sailing ship scene and ruled borders, gilt lettering on the spine in a fine
- Jacket Condition
- green cloth, with a blind stamped sailing ship scene and ruled borders, gilt lettering on the spine in a fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0688075088
- ISBN 13
- 9780688075088
- Publisher
- Books of Wonder / William Morrow & Company, Inc.,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1988)
- Keywords
- literature in translation, children's and illustrated,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics;
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