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[EARLY RUSSIAN-AMERICAN IMPRINT] Vokrug sveta v vosem'desyat dney [i.e. Around the World in Eighty Days]

Verne, J.

Item #2225

New York: Izd. knigoizd-va "Znaniye", [1910s]. 298, IV pp.: ill. 12.2x18 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated cloth binding. Block is slightly loosened. Otherwise in a very good condition.

Scarce. First edition. Original English text printed in 1873 (first separate edition).
This is the Russian translation of Jules Verne’s famous novel Around the World in Eight Days. The book is a reprint from the publication of the Moscow Publishing House Polza [i.e. Benefit], which came out in the 1910s with the translation from French by the Russian writers and translators Elizaveta Leontyeva and Ivan Leontyev. The two translated a number of works from French, Polish, and German including A. Nemoevsky’s Pis'ma nenormal'nogo cheloveka [i.e. Letters from an Abnormal Person] (1908), Alexander Barta’s Chudesnaya istoriya ili kak Vil'yam Kukendi, burzhuaznyi reporter, otkryl zemlyu, na kotoroy on zhivet [i.e. A Wonderful Story or How William Kukandi, a Bourgeois Reporter, Discovered the Land he Lives on] (1926), etc.
The first Russian translation of Jules Verne’s classic appeared in 1873 and since then has become one of the most commonly translated works in Russia.

Price: $450.00