Four complete Verne novels in one genuine leather volume, and not the four you were expecting to be squeezed into a sampler. This edition carries Five Weeks in a Balloon, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days and Journey to the Center of the Earth unabridged, so the reader who only knows the films finally meets Captain Nemo as Verne actually wrote him.

Canterbury Classics builds it as a keepsake rather than a reading copy that will be replaced: a genuine leather cover, printed endpapers, a ribbon bookmark sewn in, and a scholarly introduction from an expert on Verne's life and work. It was named a Silver Finalist for the 2013 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award in Gift Books, and it looks the part on a shelf at 712 pages and just over two pounds in the hand.

This is the present for the reader who has everything in paperback. One volume, four voyages, and a spine that will still look right in twenty years.