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VERNE, Jules. The Tour of the World in Eighty Days. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1873.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition, second issue with translator's name on title page, Duodecimo, original green cloth over boards, gilt stamped lettering and decoration, blind stamped decorations, all edges stained red. A classic adventure novel from French writer Jules Verne. Very good, ex-Sunday school library with bookplate and usual indicia, light shelf wear.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Verne, Jules. The Tour of the World in 80 Days. James R. Osgood, Boston, 1873.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With translator's namer, George M. Towle, on title page, green binding. VERY GOOD+ some loss of color to paper edges, previous owner name on front free endpaper, edgewear to spine ends.
Seller: Barrister, Inc., Davie, FL, U.S.A.
Jules Verne. The Tour of the World in 80 Days. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1873.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition, first edition in English, first printing without translators name on title page. Measuring approximately 6" x 4.5" with 291 numbered pages. This book is in good condition. Moderate bumping and tear to both ends of spine. Gilt lettering and design on spine and front board still full and vivid. Heavy staining to both boards. Book is cocked causing an overbite to the textblock. Front hinge is cracked. Moderate foxing to interior pages. Phileas Fogg is a wealthy English gentleman living a solitary life in London. Despite his wealth, Fogg lives modestly and carries out his habits with mathematical precision. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(N8-97). First American Edition and First Edition in English, First Printing.
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Verne, Jules. The Tour of the World in 80 Days. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1873.
Price: US$380.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1873. 12mo. Hardcover sans a dust jacket. First edition. Green boards with gilt lettering. Spine is heavily leaned (as is common for this edition) and the heel and crown of the spine have small tears. Moderate rubbing and edge wear. Corners are rubbed. The title page has a date and word written in pencil. Has 1873 on the title page and lacks the translator's name, so this appears to be the first printing. Book is in good condition.
Seller: Bad Animal, Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.
Verne, Jules.. THE TOUR OF THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS.. James R. Osgood and Co: Boston, 1873.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Description: Frontis illust, 6 x 4.25, gilt lettered brown cloth 291 pp, covers rubbed and worn, extremities bumped and fraying, spine top torn, hinges loose, pp toned, a rather well worn copy but complete. FIRST US ED, FIRST PRINTING (without translator's name on title page).
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Verne, Jules. THE TOUR OF THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS. James R. Osgood and Co., Boston, 1873.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First U. S. edition and first edition in English. Presumed first issue without the translator's name on title page. Basis for the 1956 movie "Around the World in Eighty Days" starring David Niven, Noel Coward, Jon Gielgud, et al. 16mo blue cloth boards decorated in gilt and blind; all edges red; Tissue-protected frontispiece drawing of "Le Saint Michel" (replicated on the cover in gilt). Very good with wear to spine and corners but front cover still quite bright.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Jules, Verne.. THE TOUR OF THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS. James R. Osgood and Company., 1873.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: ; Green cloth cover with gilt stamping is frayed at corners and spine caps and split along lower front hinge but clean, bright, and in good condition. Boards are straight. Spine is cocked. Binding is tight. Former owner's antiquated bookplate affixed to front paste down. Pages are lightly toned with modest signs of handling but overall clean and very good.
Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.
Verne, Jules. THE TOUR OF THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS .. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1873.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: Small octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-vii [viii] [9] 10-291 [292: blank], fly leaves at front and rear, frontispiece (illustration of "Le Saint Michel") conjunct with title leaf, title page printed in red and black, publisher's pictorial brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind, rear panel stamped in blind, slate coated endpapers, all edges stained red. First edition in English. Verne's most popular novel. A translation (uncredited in this edition, but by George M. Towle) of LE TOUR DU MONDE EN QUATRE-VINGTS JOURS (1873). This edition, the first printed in the U.S., apparently preceded Osgood's 1873 AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS printed in London by Gilbert and Rivington from the plates of the British Sampson Low edition. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-154 and (1981) 1-165. Clareson, Science-Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 762. Reginald 14648. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). Myers 54. Taves and Michaluk V011. Binding slightly leaned, cloth rubbed at head and tail of spine panel and corners, small paper defect on the front flyleaf, a very good copy. A bright, attractive copy. (#173589)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Jules Verne. The Tour of the World in 80 Days. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1873.
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition bound in green cloth, pictorially decorated in gilt and blind, dark blue endpapers, edges stained red, two color title page. Tissue guarded frontispiece and introduction by Adrien Marx. Taves & Michaluk V011; Myers 54. Christmas 1911 inscription on recto of frontispiece from uncle to nephew; relating how this book was give to him by the publisher George Ticknor when they met on a trip to Boston as the book was just published. Also signed by "uncle Tom" on title page. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company (1873), 291 pages. Fine copy with very modest foreword lean and minor loss of stain on bottom edge.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-iii] iv [v] vi-viii [ix-xi] xii-xvi [1] 2-315 [316: blank], fly leaves at front and rear, 54 inserted plates with illustrations by A. de Neuville and L. Benett, plus one small illustration by Benett in the text and an integral full-page sketch of the "Saint Michael" [sic, i.e. Michel] drawn by Verne, publisher's pictorial bevel-edged green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and black, rear panel stamped in blind, brown coated endpapers, all edges plain. First fully illustrated U.S. edition. A translation of LE TOUR DU MONDE EN QUATRE-VINGTS JOURS (1873), Verne's most popular novel. In the summer of 1873 Osgood published their first edition, THE TOUR OF THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, in a small pocket-sized format with a single illustration (Verne's sketch of his yacht, the "Saint Michel"). The first fully illustrated English-language edition was published in London by Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle in November 1873. In November or December 1873 Osgood published their second edition of the novel which was printed in London by Gilbert and Rivington from the plates of the British Sampson Low's 1873 edition. The Sampson Low and Osgood editions were reprinted with title pages dated 1874. The 1873 printings are very scarce. The book "seems to have had production problems that caused the spine to crack and chip when the book was read; consequently no 1873 copies have been seen in better than good condition." - Arthur B. Edwards, "Collecting Jules Verne," Firsts, VI: 7-8 [July-August 1996], p. 42. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-154 and (1981) 1-165. Clareson, Science-Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 762. Reginald 14648. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). Myers 54. Taves and Michaluk V011. An early copy with "Christmas 1873" gift inscription in pencil on recto of front flyleaf and owner's signature, also dated "Christmas 1873," on same. Binding slightly leaned, cloth lightly worn at spine ends and corner tips, a bright, tight very good copy. A superior copy of this book and rare in this condition. (#96607)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.