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AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
by VERNE, Jules
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine in glassine and a Very Good slipcase with some rubbing to the sides and fading to the backstrip
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Very Good slipcase with some rubbing to the sides and fading to the backstrip. Edward Wilson. Quarto (7" x 11") bound in white English vellum with boards covered in hand-marbled paper imported from France and a spine label lettered in gold leaf. Copy #333 of 1500 numbered copies printed at the Plantin Press with an introduction by Ray Bradbury and illustrated with plates by Edward Wilson with pochoir hand-coloring. SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
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
- Charles Agvent
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015017
- Title
- AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
- Author
- VERNE, Jules
- Illustrator
- Edward Wilson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in glassine and a Very Good slipcase with some rubbing to the sides and fading to the backstrip
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- Signed, Edward Wilson, Illustrated Books, Hand-colored, Ray Bradbury, Color Plate Books, Fantasy, Limited Editions Club, Science Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Charles Agvent
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About the Seller
Charles Agvent
Biblio member since 2003
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
About Charles Agvent
We carry a diverse and select stock with major specialties including Modern and 19th Century Literary First Editions, Signed Books & Autographs (especially Presidential and Literary), and Limited Editions Club books. We have been in business since 1987 and are proud to be members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB).
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- Fine
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