1892 Scarce Edition - Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days.
Author : Jules Verne. (Geo. M. Towle, translator).
Title : Around the World in Eighty Days.
Publisher : London, Sampson Low, Marston & Company Limited, 1892. New Edition (stated).
Language : Text in English.
Size : 7.5 " X 6 ".
Pages : xvi-315 pages.
Binding : Attractive and very good original illustrated full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content : Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing - as shown)
Illustrations : Complete with the 54 full page illustrations.
The book : Scarce and attractive Sampson Low edition of Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.
The author: Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.Verne was born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, where he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).