Jules Verne - Cinq semaines en ballon - Voyage au centre de la terre - 1920

Five Weeks in a Balloon - Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jules Verne
Hetzel - Hachette Collection 1920
19 x 28 cm
257 + 220 Pages
2kg

Splendid edition almost like new
Double volume: Five Weeks in a Balloon - Journey to the Center of the Earth, hardcover with a single elephant motif. Title in the cartouche.

Superb front cover, with radiant gold
Back cover clean and quite red
Spine in very good condition, gold lettering barely dulled
Gutter clean, good page hold, good gilding.
Corners well squared. Original endpapers.

Interior new, white, without creases.
The binding as a whole is almost new.
Extremely rare in this condition, as these bindings are very sensitive to light.