243 - VERNE (Jules).

VERNE (Jules). Five Weeks in a Balloon. Paris, Hetzel, [1867]. Large 8vo, green cardboard binding with bouquets of roses (2nd type), spine studded with stars, comb-pattern endpapers. First simple cardboard binding with bouquets of roses, of the very rare “speckled with stars on the spine” type, which Hetzel used only in 1867 for this title and *Five Weeks in a Balloon*. Corners and caps worn, jaws marked, interior relatively fresh.