The Confusion - first US edition

by Neal Stephenson - signed

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. Signed by the author on the title page, full number line. This is less frequent, as the author did not tour this book. It is much more common to find this first edition with a publisher-tipped in page signed by the author.

Dust wrapper is price-intact at $27.95, mylar protected.