"The Tour of the World in Eighty Days" [aka "Around the World in Eighty Days"], by Jules Verne, published by Belford, Clarke & Co., Chicago undated [1884] illustrated with a woodcut frontispiece and five plates by Neuville and L. Benett.

Hard boards, original green cloth with black decorations and lettering on front board and spine [a little wear: see photo]; 5" x 7.3/4", floral decorated endpapers; frontispiece with tissue guard [foxing- frontis, tissue guard and title page: see photos]; 329 pages on heavy paper + 5 plates; some stains, very good condition.

Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright, the author of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). His novels, always well documented, are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account the technological advances of the time.

Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. Jules Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking between Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare. He has sometimes been called the "father of science fiction", a title that has also been given to H.G. Wells. In the 2010s, he was the most translated French author in the world. In France, 2005 was declared "Jules Verne Year" on the occasion of the centenary of the writer's death.

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