Description
For sale: a rare first paperback edition, first printing of Kraken by China Miéville.
The exterior of the paperback edition is in Near Fine condition, with clean, illustrated covers with a corner crease on the back along with several partial creases. Also with, mild surface wear, strong title on a square spine, clean page blocks, a tight binding with no creases, lightly rubbed spine ends, and mild edge wear and rounded corners.
The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition, with no marks, inscriptions, or any other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned. Appears unread.
China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this—or any other—year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, police, cultists, and wizards are locked in a war to bring about—or prevent—the End of All Things.
Trade paperback ships promptly in manila envelope with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
