1900 RARE PIRATE ED Tour Around the World 80 Days JULES VERNE Le Tour Du Monde

1900 JULES VERNE Tour Around the World 80 Days RARE PIRATE ED Le Tour Du Monde

Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days, one of his most celebrated works for its imaginative storytelling and scientific ingenuity, has a fascinating pirated printing by Hurst and Company as part of their “American Boys Series,” which mimicked the series name and cover art of Boston-based publishers, Lee and Shepherd. This unique edition, retitled as “The Tour of the World in Eighty Days” notably credits Verne for “The Texar Vengeance”—the title of George Munro’s notorious pirated edition of Verne’s 1887 novel “North Against South”. As was common for such pirated works, the series had a brief print run, resulting in fewer than 25 known copies remaining worldwide. Consequently, collectors prize this scarce and uniquely altered version of Verne’s beloved novel.

Item number: #41532

Price: $499

VERNE, Jules; [BROWNE, Gordon Frederick]

The Tour of the World in Eighty Days

New York: Hurst and Company, [1900].

Details:

• Collation: Complete
  • 184
• Edition Note(s):
  • Cover: Imitation of publisher’s Lee and Shepherd’s “American Boys Series” cover art.
  • Title page: Jules Verne credited for the pirated US title “The Texar Vengeance”
  • Contents: Uses pages they purchased from Richard Edward King (prolific Lymington printer and publisher).
• Reference(s): “Texar’s Revenge”: Taves and Michaluk V033; Myers 49
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
  • Red pictorial cloth
• Size: ~7.75in X 5.25in (19.5cm x 13.5cm)

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