Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh in a new archival wrap. First American Edition stated, 2011 Farrar, Straus and Giroux. First Printing with full number line, 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.
The book is in Near Fine condition with bright boards with a few spots and dents on the front. Also with, strong title ink on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, rolled spine ends, moderate to heavy edge wear, and two lightly bumped corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with the ghost of an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions or signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
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 Brodart archival wrap.
Spectacular coincidences, startling reversals of fortune, and tender love stories abound. But this is much more than an irresistible page-turner. The blind quest for money, the primacy of the drug trade, the concealment of base impulses behind the rhetoric of freedom: in River of Smoke the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries converge, and the result is a consuming historical novel with powerful contemporary resonance. Critics praised Sea of Poppies for its vibrant storytelling, antic humor, and rich narrative scope; now Amitav Ghosh continues the epic that has charmed and compelled readers all over the globe.
Ships promptly in a corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
