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Title |
Author |
Price |
| 1873 |
AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS |
Verne, Jules |
$ 2750.00 |
one of the scarce 1873-dated copies
Verne, Jules. AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS. Translated by Geo. M. Towle. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1873. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, beveled, all edges gilt.
First Illustrated American Edition of this famous tale of the circumnavigation of the globe by Phileas Fogg and Passepartout. Osgood came out with a small unillustrated volume, the first edition in English, titled THE TOUR OF THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS, in 1873 (the same year as the original French edition). An illustrated British edition was published in late 1873, and this American illustrated edition was prepared from that one. As Edwards has pointed out, there are a few copies of Osgood's illustrated edition dated 1873 (such as this one); however, due to apparent "production problems that caused the spine to crack and chip when read," copies dated 1873 are today "very scarce" -- making 1874-dated copies generally collected as the earliest obtainable American illustrated edition.
This copy has all page edges gilt (not all do), and is in very good condition: the the volume is rebacked within its own original binding (preserving the original chocolate brown endpapers), and the green cloth is faintly mottled in places. 1873 dated copies do not seem to turn up in much better condition. Taves & Michaluk V011; Myers 54.
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