Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover trilogy The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard in a Near Fine slipcase. First American Editions stated, 2003 Grove Press. All volumes with First Printing from full number lines
All three hardcovers are in Fine condition with clean, cloth boards, strong titles on straight spines, clean page blocks and strong corners. Erased prices on all three second free end papers. No other signs of ownership. Inside pages are very clean and bright. Pristine unread condition. No dust jackets, as issued.
Near Fine slipcase with wrap-around illustration and titles on all three sides of the striking slipcase design by Charles Rue Woods.
The Coast of Utopia is Tom Stoppard’s long-awaited and monumental trilogy that explores a group of friends who came of age under the Tsarist autocracy of Nicholas I, and for whom the term intelligentsia was coined. Among them are the anarchist Michael Bakunin, who was to challenge Marx for the soul of the masses; Ivan Turgenev, author of some of the most enduring works in Russian literature; the brilliant, erratic young critic Vissarion Belinsky; and Alexander Herzen, a nobleman’s son and the first self-proclaimed socialist in Russia, who becomes the main focus of this drama of politics, love, loss, and betrayal. In The Coast of Utopia , Stoppard presents an inspired examination of the struggle between romantic anarchy, utopian idealism, and practical reformation in this chronicle of romantics and revolutionaries caught up in a struggle for political freedom in an age of emperors.
Ships promptly with set wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
