quicksilver confusion system world baroque von stephenson neal (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: FINE. First printing. Three epic novels, set in the late 17th and early 18th centuries - a combination of "history, adventure, science, truth, invention, sex, absurdity, piracy, madness, death and alchemy." The Baroque Cycle provides part of the deep backstory to the characters and events featured in Cryptonomicon. Set in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the novels feature ancestors of several characters in Cryptonomicon, as well as events and objects which affect the action in that book. 927, 815, 892 pp. respectively. Map endpapers. Priced as a set. Very near fine in a like dustjackets (volume 2 and 3 have remainder lines, but all are tight and clean copies).

Hard Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. All three volumes are first printings of the first editions. Minimal wear to corners. Bindings tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2003 Hard Cover. Three hardcover volumes. "The Baroque Cycle is a series of novels written by American writer Neal Stephenson. Appearing in print in 2003 and 2004, the cycle contains eight novels originally published in three volumes: Quicksilver, Vol. I of the Baroque Cycle - Clarke Award winner, Locus Award nominee, 2004: Book 1 - Quicksilver; Book 2 - The King of the Vagabonds; Book 3 - Odalisque; The Confusion, Vol. II of the Baroque Cycle: Book 4 - Bonanza; Book 5 - The Juncto; The System of the World, Vol. III of the Baroque Cycle - Locus Award winner, Clarke Award nominee, 2005: Book 6 - Solomon's Gold; Book 7 - Currency; Book 8 - The System of the World. The story follows the adventures of a sizeable cast of characters living amidst some of the central events of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in Europe. Despite featuring a literary treatment consistent with historical fiction, Stephenson has characterized the work as science fiction, due to the presence of some anomalous occurrences and the work's particular emphasis on themes relating to science and technology. The sciences of cryptology and numismatics feature heavily in the series. Quicksilver takes place mainly in the years between the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in England (1660) and the Glorious Revolution of 1688. The Confusion follows Quicksilver without temporal interruption, but ranges geographically from Europe and the Mediterranean through India to Manila, Japan, and Mexico. The System of the World takes place principally in London in 1714, about ten years after the events of The Confusion. The books feature considerable sections concerning alchemy, with characters including Isaac Newton, Gottfried Leibniz, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier and sundry other Europeans of note during late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The principal alchemist of the tale is the mysterious Enoch Root, who, along with the descendants of several characters in this series, is also featured in the Stephenson novel Cryptonomicon.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. First edition / First printing. Uncorrected Proofs: Quicksilver Limited Edition - Number 361 of 435 copies, System of the World Limited Edition Number 249 of 450 copies. Quicksilver is Signed by Neal Stephenson on the half-title page, The Confusion and System of the World are Signed on the title page by Neal Stephenson. White printed wrappers. x, 927 pages. 815 pages. xv, 892 pages. Quicksilver is fine with some bubbling of the paper on the spine. The Confusion and System of the World are very fine. Quicksilver was the Winner of the 2004 Arthur C. Clarke Award. The Confusion was the Winner of the 2005 Locus Award. Volumes one and three are limited editions. There apparently was not a limited edition proof for The Confusion. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. THE BAROQUE CYCLE being QUICKSILVER. THE CONFUSION & THE SYSTEM OF THE WORLD, Morrow, 2003 & 2004 & 2004 respectively, all in first edition, all just about fine or fine in like pictorial dust-wrappers. For the lot of 3---.

William Morrow and Company, New York 2003-2004. xiv, 927; 815; 892 pp. 3 volumes. Hardcover with d/w. Good condition.

London, William Heinemann, 2003-2004, tre volumi in-8vo cartonato editoriale con sovraccoperta illustrata a colori, pp. XIV, 927 + (14), 815 + XV, 892, (4). Testi nell'originale inglese. Ciclo completo in tre volumi, tutti in eccellente stato di conservazione (fine copies) e in prima edizione britannica (seconda impressione).