Books

8 vols. 12mo, publishers blue-green cloth elaborately illustrated in colors. 1899 old ink signature in all but one of the volumes; one frontispiece detached; slight cracking to a few (inner) hinges; slight use to extremities of cloth but on the whole a very attractive set. Jules Verne Series.

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.