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Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, c. 1887. Very good condition. Ex-owner’s name on right upper corner of title dated 1944. . Binding: Contemporary decorative cloth, upper board and spine illustrating a floral design. Flat spine with gilt title. , Notes: First English edition was published in 1873. Translated by Geo. M. Towle from the first and original French language publication of the same year, entitled “Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours”. Very good condition. Ex-owner’s name on right upper corner of title dated 1944. , Size: 8vo. (186x122mm), Pages: front pasted and free endpapers printer’s advertisements, blank, title, reference, contents 3-4, 5-227, blank (2), free and pasted endpapers printer’s advertisements. , Category: Book Literature

Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first 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 £2 million today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.