Description
For sale: a rare and exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of Galápagos Regained by James Morrow. First Edition stated, January 2015 St. Martin’s Press. First printing with complete number line, 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on a straight spine, a small remainder mark on the top page block, tight binding, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and strong corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned .
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear, and the price on the front flap. Looks great in a new archival wrap.
James Morrow’s Galápagos Regained centers on the fictional Chloe Bathurst, an unemployed Victorian actress who finds work on Charles Darwin’s estate, nurturing the strange birds, exotic lizards, and giant tortoises he brought back from his trip around the world. When Chloe gets wind of the Great God Contest, sponsored by the Percy Bysshe Shelley Society―£10,000 to the first petitioner who can prove or disprove the existence of a Supreme Being―she decides that Mr. Darwin’s materialist theory of speciation might just turn the trick.
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