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Lot 157

Sale 5372 - Rare Books & Manuscripts
Apr 10, 2014 6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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2 vols.


2 vols.
Verne, Jules. Around the World in Eighty Days. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, [1873]. 8vo, orig black-stamped & gilt pictorial green cloth, gilt pictorial spine; light edge wear, spine ends slightly frayed, top & front hinge chipped. With 12 plates (incl frontis), full-page illus. Gift inscr dated "Christmas 1876" on verso of frontis, small pencil scrawl on frontis tissue guard. xvi, (1)315 (5)pp + 32pp pub cat. With black-stamped figure of Phileus Fogg on front cover, gilt figure of Chinese man holding umbrella on spine. Bright copy. Myers 54. * Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, n.d. [ca 1876-77]. 8vo, orig black-stamped pictorial green cloth, gilt pictorial spine; corners a little bumped, spine ends just frayed, joints scuffed. With 12 plates (incl frontis). Front hinge broken, casing coming loose. With ownership inscr dated "Christmas 1877" on front blank. x, (1)-303pp. Shaken but bright. See M 56, giving pub date as 1880s.

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