Crinkled on base of front dust jacket

Foreword by James Gunn

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Condition: Very Good - Spine cloth rubbed ad faded

Jules Verne - Cinq Semaines [1863] First Edition, Private Note Odyssey file Crinkled on base of frontJules Verne Cinq Semaines en Ballon (Five Weeks in Balloon. Journey's of Discovery in Africa). The authors first work, in its first appearance, accompanied by a laid in note from Verne to his nephew Maurice, and a bundle of other ephemera relating to this copy from the noted collector Richard Dalby, whose collection it originated from, having been in his possession since the 1960s. One of the rarest pieces of original Verne, the first issue is of