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Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
- Used
- fair
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Formby, Merseyside, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington. Fair. 1880. Card Covers. An uncommon Victorian softcover of Verne's classic tale. The book is reasonably firmly bound in the original grey card wraps. Which are slightly grubby and creased with some loss to the spine ends and minor chips to the front and rear covers. The text block is slightly toned, foxed and dusty. ; An early edition of this classic Verne adventure, a much slimmer and more fragile volume than those that proceeded it, presumably the reason why so few have survived. .
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
- Truffle Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 165
- Title
- Around the World in Eighty Days
- Author
- Jules Verne
- Format/Binding
- Card Covers
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1880
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Formby, Merseyside
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Truffle Books was created by the coming together of 4 experienced book-dealers. We tend to specialise in modern first editions but we also have a good selection of antiquarian books. We have a large selection of books in stock and there are always a significant number of books not online, so if you cannot see what you want, please ask, we may well be able to find the book that you want.
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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....
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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