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The System of the World

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  • Author: Neal STEPHENSON
  • Publisher: Morrow
  • Published: 2004
  • Description: Hardback, Near Fine
  • Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
  • Edition: First(US)
  • Ref: 10021
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First US edition hardback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. Stated first edition. Minor bump to head and tail of book spine. Price still on dustjacket. Rough-cut leading edges on pages, common in American books. Volume Three of the Baroque Cycle. “It is 1714 when Daniel Waterhouse makes his less-than-triumphant return to Englands shores. Aging Puritan and Natural Philosopher, confidant of the high and mighty and contemporary of the most brilliant minds of the age, he has braved the merciless sea and an assault by the infamous pirate Blackbeard to help mend the rift between two adversarial geniuses at a princesss behest. But whilst much has changed outwardly, the duplicity and danger that once drove Daniel to the American Colonies is still coin of the British realm. No sooner has Daniel set foot on his homeland than he is embroiled in a dark conflict that has been raging in the shadows for decades&” PLEASE NOTE: This will be an extremely heavy parcel as the book weighs in excess of 1.3Kg unpacked. Please contact us for an accurate quote for postage before placing an order. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH