May 18, 2016 - Sale 2416

Sale 2416 - Lot 385

Unsold
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
VERNE, JULES. The Tour of the World in Eighty Days. Title-page printed in red and black. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece of the sailing vessel Le Saint Michel; tissue-guard. 12mo, original terra-cotta cloth with ship vignette stamped in gilt on front cover, cocked, extremities rubbed with light fraying to spine tips; rear hinge tender. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1873

Additional Details

first american edition, first issue, with no mention of George M. Towle (the translator) on the title page. Taves & Michaluk V011; Myers 54.