Around World Eighty Days, First Edition, Signed (4 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.

Barry Moser (illustrator). First printing of this Morrow edition (per publisher's number line upon copyright page) SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR BARRY MOSER. [10], 242 pages. Hardcover: H 23.25cm x L 17.25cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed; green spine sunned/faded to blue; publisher's original printed price at front flap's top corner; dj presented in an older mylar protector. Aquamarine cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Muted yellow colored top edge; stray ink mark (matching the ink utilized in Moser's signature) at fore-edge heel. Laid-in at page 40 is bookmark for Jackson, Mississippi's Lemuria bookstore promoting a May 19 [1990] signing event for another book in Barry Moser's oeuvre. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. Moser's black ink signature in his artistic albeit illegible scrawl upon the title page. ISBN 0688075088.

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].

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).