Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson a new archival wrap.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, lightly faded boards, strong silver title gilt on the straight spine and front graphic, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The rear end paper and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with price intact and mild surface and edge wear. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
A gloriously rich, entertaining, and endlessly inventive novel that brings a remarkable age and its momentous events to vivid life — a historical epic populated by the likes of Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton, William of Orange, Benjamin Franklin, and King Louis XIV — Quicksilver is an extraordinary achievement from one of the most original and important literary talents of our time.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
