Tour of the World in Eighty Days
by Verne, Jules
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good condition. Ex-owner’s name on right upper corner of title dated 1944.
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Very good condition. Ex-owner’s name on right upper corner of title dated 1944.
, Size: 8vo. (186x122mm), Pages: front pasted and free endpapers printer’s advertisements, blank, title, reference, contents 3-4, 5-227, blank (2), free and pasted endpapers printer’s advertisements. , Category: Book Literature
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B4965
- Title
- Tour of the World in Eighty Days
- Author
- Verne, Jules
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good condition. Ex-owner’s name on right upper corner of title dated 1944.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- c. 1887
- Keywords
- Book Literature
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