Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh in a new archival wrap. First American Edition stated, 2008 Farrar, Straus Giroux. First Printing with no subsequent printing.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title gilt on the straight spine, light foxing on the page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and two lightly bumped corners. The book is signed by the author on the title page with no inscription. Otherwise,in Fine condition with no other marks, inscriptions, or other 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 very mild edge wear, the price on the front flap, and looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, the exotic backstreets of Canton. But it is the panorama of characters, whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, that makes Sea of Poppies so breathtakingly alive—a masterpiece from one of the world’s finest novelists.
Ships promptly in a corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
