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Verne, Jules; Towle, Geo. M. [Translator]. AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1873.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, xvi, 315 pages. In Fair plus condition. Bound in brown cloth with faded gilt lettering. Boards have extreme sunning, damp staining, minor staining, some rubbing, bumping to corners, shelf wear, tearing to the cloth along the spine joints and edges, and minor staining. Text block has cracking on the front paste down hinge, the first free end paper is loose from binding, binding is shaken, writing on the second front end paper, and foxing and age toning throughout. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Glass Case, Aisle 10 Endcap. 1375732. FP New Rockville Stock.

Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, 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.

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.

VERNE, Jules; TOWLE, Geo. M. (trans.); DE NEUVILLE & BENETT, L. (illus.). Around the World in Eighty Days. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1873.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: xvi, 315 p. 19 cm. Frontispiece and 53 other full-page plates. Also an unlisted illustration of Verne's yacht the "Saint Michel" across from p xi. In-text illustration on p. 297. Green cloth with black and gold impressing. Mylar wrap, removed for photos. Spine deteriorated with chipped ends and holes in cloth. Corners worn. Front endpapers have signatures. Some slight chips to front free endpaper. Foxing and stains throughout. Signature on title page. Scarce 1873 printing of Verne's most popular novel. The book that provoked an interest in world circumference travel records that lasted to the age of space travel, a period of nearly 100 years. Lengthy introduction by Adrien Marx. Myers 54. Taves & Michaluk V011. First Illustrated US Edition with publication notice on title verso and 1873 printed at bottom of title. Printed in London by Gilbert and Rivington from the plates of the Sampson Low British first edition but with Osgood's title page.

Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada

Verne, Jules and Geo. M. Towle (transl.). AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS. James R. Osgood and Co.: Boston, 1873.

Price: US$1094.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 54 plates, 7.5 x 5.5", gilt-dec brown cloth, 315pp, covers heavily worn, extremities bumped and fraying, spine ends badly chipped, front outer hinge torn almost to the top, spine cocked, hinges loose, inner hinges cracked, bookplate from former owner inside front cover, contents used and spotted, two plates loose but present, some finger soiling. FIRST AMERICAN ILLUSTRATED EDITION WITH 1873 ON TITLE PAGE.

Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.

Verne, Jules. Around the World in Eighty Days. James R. Osgood and Company, 1873.

Price: US$4500.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First American illustrated edition; the first fully illustrated edition, with '1873' printed at title page and copyright page. Translated from the French by Geo. M. Towle. Brown cloth, with titling and illustration in gilt and a richer brown; cloth rubbed, with light general age-soil and small dark stain to rear fore-edge, and light to moderate edgewear including frayed spine tips and fore-edge corners. Gilt page edges. Front inner hinge repaired between FFEP and fly leaf; binding cracked at RFEP; all illustrations present, but the plate at page 251 is loose, laid-in; binding else intact. Gift inscription at FFEP, dated Christmas 1873. Pages lightly toned, and sparsely foxed throughout. Interior text is otherwise clean and unmarked. Housed in a modern custom black cloth slipcase. Photographs available upon request.

Seller: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, U.S.A.

Verne, Jules. AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS . Translated by Geo. M. Towle. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1873.

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.

Verne, Jules. Around the World in Eighty Days. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1873.

Price: US$12500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition, First Printing with 1873 printed on the title page with James R. Osgood as the publisher. A beautiful copy. The book is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's green cloth and is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A fabulous copy housed in a custom clamshell box. We buy Verne First Editions.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.