Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours, known as “Tour of the World in 80 Days” in early English editions) is a classic 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 (roughly £1.6 million today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne’s most acclaimed works. (from wikipedia).
Round the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne (1914)
S$69.00
Round the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne (1914)
S$69.00
Title: Round the World in Eighty Days
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: Charles H. Kelly. No date, inscription dated 1914.
Condition: Hardcover, decorative cloth. Good. Covers tanned, edges tanned with some dust soiling and foxing. Foxing to prelims and tanning to title page. Inscription to ffep, indicating this was presented as a prize. Colour frontispiece. Text clean, with little to no foxing to text, and very sound binding. 184pp., app 7″x5″.
