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Five Weeks in a Balloon

Five Weeks in a Balloon

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Five Weeks in a Balloon

by Jules Verne

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George Routledge and Sons Ltd, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 249 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Slight crinkling to gutters however binding remains firm. Pages are heavily tanned with noticeable foxing. Pen inscription to front pastedown. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened. Slight sunning to spine and edges. Minor black marks to boards. Heavy white sticker mark to back board.

Synopsis

Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen is an adventure novel by Jules Verne. It is the first Verne novel in which he perfected the "ingredients" of his later work, skillfully mixing a plot full of adventure and twists that hold the reader's interest with passages of technical, geographic, and historic description.

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Title
Five Weeks in a Balloon
Author
Jules Verne
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Acceptable
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1
Publisher
George Routledge and Sons Ltd

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Gilt
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Rubbing
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