VERNE JULES Around the World in Eighty Days

Sale 2397 - Lot 343

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VERNE, JULES. Around the World in Eighty Days. Illustrations by A. de Neuville and L. Bennett, full-page sketch of the "Saint Michael" by Verne. 8vo, light blue pictorial cloth, decorated in black and gilt, over beveled boards, spine faded and gouged with loss of title letter, corners bumped, scattered soiling; hinges repaired, spotted tissue guard with offset to title-page, pencilled ownership signature. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1873

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first fully illustrated american edition with the scarce 1873 title-page. Osgood had published their first edition in the summer of the same year with a single illustration, Verne's sketch of the "Saint Michel." Verne's most widely published novel. Myers, 54.