AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS.
by VERNE. JULES
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Classics Book Club. London. 1950. 8vo. (7.3 x 5.1 inches). Finely bound in half dark blue morocco. Spine with raised bands, the compartments lettered in gilt. Blue cloth on boards. Marbled endpapers. A fine and attractive copy of this classic adventure story. The leather binding is unsigned but is certainly the work of a master bookbinder.
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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- Seller
- Paul Foster Books (GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 10969
- Title
- AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS.
- Author
- VERNE. JULES
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Classics Book Club. London. 1950
- Date Published
- 1950
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine bindings;
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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....
- 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...