The Confusion - first US edition
by Neal Stephenson - limited signed edition
In 'The Confusion', the second volume of the "Baroque Cycle," it is the year
1689. A cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, a.k.a.
King of the Vagabonds, a.k.a. Half-Cocked Jack, lately and miraculously cured of
the pox -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure
ensues, rife with battles, chases, hairbreadth escapes, swashbuckling,
bloodletting, and danger -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ...
nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold that will place the intrepid band at odds with
the mighty and the mad . . .
Book has dull orange boards, quarter-bound with dull brick red cloth. Title and
ornamentation on the spine in copper. Maps of Europe and Asia decorate the
endpapers. Limited issue, signed by Stephenson on a special publisher's tipped
in signature page; limitation not stated.
Dust wrapper is price-intact at $27.95, mylar protected