Around World Eighty Days, Signed (13 results)

Hardcover. Barry Moser (illustrator). First Edition Thus. Octavo, 242 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good minus dust jacket. Dust jacket has minor shelf wear. Fore edge dyed yellow. Inscription by illustrator on title page with "For Brian, with best wishes" written. NOTE: Shelved in ND-B. 1373966. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Moser, Barry (illustrator). 1988, Fisrt edition with Barry Moser illustrations, signed by Moser. Beautiful, illustrated hardcover volume of Verne's classic adventure tale. Translated by George Makepeace Towle. Signed on the title page by illustrator Barry Moser. Neat, tight clean condition with no previous owner marks. Autographed copy sticker. Decorative map end pages. First full color illustration is of Verne on the pretitle page. 16 additional full color illustrations throughout the text. Really beautiful collectible children's book. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Barry Moser (illustrator). First Thus. INSCRIBED to noted children's book writer SID FLEISCHMAN by the illustrator, BARRY MOSER in red ink on title page. No other markings or bookplate. First printing of this edition. Fine copy in very good dust jacket with some scuffing and light wear. No chips or tears and not price-clipped. Inscribed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Jessica Hills (Author photograph) (illustrator). xxii, [1], 449, [7] pages. Endpaper map. Illustrations Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Autographed copy sticker on front of dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. DJ is price-clipped. Matthew Goodman is the author of four previous books of nonfiction. His book Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World was a national bestseller. His most recent book, The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team, received the New York City Book Award and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Goodman has appeared on numerous national radio shows, including NPR's The Diane Rehm Show, All Things Considered, and On the Media. On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from New York that day-and heading in the opposite direction by train-was a young journalist from The Cosmopolitan magazine, Elizabeth Bisland. Each woman was determined to outdo Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg and circle the globe in less than eighty days. The dramatic race that ensued would span twenty-eight thousand miles, captivate the nation, and change both competitors' lives forever. The two women were a study in contrasts. Nellie Bly was a scrappy, hard-driving, ambitious reporter from Pennsylvania coal country who sought out the most sensational news stories, often going undercover to expose social injustice. Genteel and elegant, Elizabeth Bisland had been born into an aristocratic Southern family, preferred novels and poetry to newspapers, and was widely referred to as the most beautiful woman in metropolitan journalism. Both women, though, were talented writers who had carved out successful careers in the hypercompetitive, male-dominated world of big-city newspapers. Eighty Days brings these trailblazing women to life as they race against time and each other, unaided and alone, ever aware that the slightest delay could mean the difference between victory and defeat. A vivid real-life re-creation of the race and its aftermath, from its frenzied start to the nail-biting dash at its finish, Eighty Days is history with the heart of a great adventure novel. Here's the journey that takes us behind the walls of Jules Verne's Amiens estate, into the back alleys of Hong Kong, onto the grounds of a Ceylon tea plantation, through storm-tossed ocean crossings and mountains blocked by snowdrifts twenty feet deep, and to many more unexpected and exotic locales from London to Yokohama. Along the way, we are treated to fascinating glimpses of everyday life in the late nineteenth century-an era of unprecedented technological advances, newly remade in the image of the steamship, the railroad, and the telegraph. For Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland-two women ahead of their time in every sense of the word-were not only racing around the world. They were also racing through the very heart of the Victorian age. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].

Boxed Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Barry Moser (illustrator). Limited. (transl French). no limitation pg, #74 of 150 copies as indicated in pencil by Moser on signed woodblock print in back pocket insert; grn cloth boards, like color cloth box w/ sl fade to back face, gilt-edged pp.242 pp, unread cond. Size: 7.5"-9.5". Signed by Illustrator. Limited.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Barry Moser (illustrator). Limited, Signed Edition. Green cloth, in perfect condition. All edges gilt, #25 of the edition of 150 copies, SIGNED BY MOSER and with the ADDITIONAL SIGNED WOODBLOCK PRINT laid in rear corner flap. In green cloth slipcase, with the slipcase in fine condition. A handsome copy of this scarce limited edition. ; Books of Wonder; Wood block print; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 272 pages; Signed by illustrator.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Burningham, John (illustrator). 1st Edition. The First UK Printing published by Jonathan Cape, London in 1972. Large 4to., publisher's oatmeal coloured boards, lettered with a decorative device of Phileas Fogg in gilt to the upper board; lettered in gilt to spine with publisher's device to foot; together in the unclipped illustrative wrapper (£1.95 net to front flap) showing a Jeep surrounded by a host of exotic animals; decorative endpapers; illustrated throughout with sketches in black and white and full colour; THE BOOK essentially a near Fine copy, lightly bumped at spine ends; The WRAPPER also near fine, with just a hint of creasing along the folds. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. This copy has been signed in the year of publication by John Burningham in his sweeping hand to the half title, and dated '18/2/72'. With layout and title page design by Jan Pienkowski. Together with the very scarce 'Around the World' Frieze' : Oblong 8vo., red folded card covers decorated with designs by Jan Pienowski, enclosing two folding Friezes extending in total to almost 8ft in length and showing Phileas Fogg on his journey, as well as Burningham's own; covers very slightly creased and rubbed, particularly to the lower corner of the spine; still near Fine. On October 3rd 1970, the English author and illustrator John Burningham set out from the Reform Club in London in a recreation of Jules Verne's Victorian hero Phileas Fogg's journey around the world. During his 80 day trip, he visited 24 countries including among them Kenya, New Zealand, Cyprus, Egypt, America, Japan and France, and travelled a total of 44,000 miles. This book records his 'fleeting impressions' along the way, and recount stories of riding 'through mountain village on a plump donkey', camel rides and 'Nile prawns for dinner', safaris in Africa and the temples of India, as well as seeing the sun rise over Mount Everest at dawn. A beautiful copy accompanied by the scarce illustrative frieze - both rare in this state. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. LIMITED EDITION. (1962). 8vo. LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION one of 1500 copies SIGNED by Wilson. LEC letter laid in. Slight, uneven toning to textblock edges. Light soiling to spine of gently rubbed boards with slight wear to forecorners. Slight, uneven darkening along edges and closed end of rubbed, marked, and soiled slipcase with slight soiling to label affixed to closed end. VG in VG slipcase. Illustrator.

Hardcover. Limited Edition, #275/1500. Octavo, 268 pages; VG; bound in publisher's quarter white English vellum, marbled paper boards, spine with gilt label, blue titling; with publisher's glassine, missing spine, some tattering to edges; housed in publisher's blue/white slipcase, mild wear and rubbing; Limited Edition, #275/1500 signed by Edward Wilson; shelved Case 9 3/4. 1353226. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Cream colored vellum bound to spine over hand-marbled paper imported from France on boards, with gold paper title label to spine. Book is tight, square, sharp-cornered and free of any flaws - Book is Fine. Only marking inside is the signature of the Illustrator, Edward A. Wilson, and neatly written "615" indicating the number of this book out of the 1,500 Limited Edition run. Introduction by Ray Bradbury and illustrated with plates by Edward Wilson with pochoir hand-coloring. Laid-in is the Monthly Letter of The Limited Editions Club, dated October, 1962, Number 346. Complete with original glassine jacket, Near Fine, with just a small chip to heal of spine. Original Slipcase has another paper title label to spine with just some minor scuffing to edge. Also Near Fine. All around fantastic copy of this special book. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Edward Wilson (illustrator). Quarto (7" x 11") bound in white English vellum with boards covered in hand-marbled paper imported from France and a spine label lettered in gold leaf. Copy #887 of 1500 numbered copies printed at the Plantin Press with an introduction by Ray Bradbury and illustrated with plates by Edward Wilson with pochoir hand-coloring. SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Fine in glassine and a Near Fine slipcase.

Hardcover. Edward Wilson (illustrator). Quarto (7" x 11") bound in white English vellum with boards covered in hand-marbled paper imported from France and a spine label lettered in gold leaf. Copy #751 of 1500 numbered copies printed at the Plantin Press with an introduction by Ray Bradbury and illustrated with plates by Edward Wilson with pochoir hand-coloring. SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Fine in glassine and a Near Fine slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Inscribed and dated by Ray Bradbury on the title page. Originally published serially in 1872, this lively travel adventure novel recounts the perilous journey undertaken by sedentary London gentleman Phileas Fogg and his valet, Passepartout, in order to win a wager with Fogg's fellow Reform Club members. In his introduction, Bradbury rejects the argument that this is a work of science fiction, noting that "Phineas Fogg's adventure was just far enough from the possible to make it exciting and provocative, and it was near enough to fantasy to keep it from bogging down in humdrum reality." Tall octavo. Full dark blue leather binding, with elaborate gilt stamping, three raised bands, moire silk endpapers, and a ribbon marker. A fine copy.