Quicksilver: Volume One of The Baroque Cycle

Neal Stephenson

Harper Collins, 2004 - Fiction - 968 pages

Neal Stephenson is one of America's most collectible authors. The ever-growing number of his devoted readers has created a huge demand for signed and first trade editions of his works.

With Quicksilver: The Deluxe Limited Edition, William Morrow presents the first limited edition ever published of Neal Stephenson's work. Limited to a single edition of just 1,000 copies, the book is a beautifully designed example of the art of bookbinding. Each volume will be numbered and signed by Neal Stephenson. Collectors and readers alike will welcome the chance to add this handsome volume to their Neal Stephenson collection.

• Limited to an edition of 1,000 copies-never to be reprinted.
• Completely redesigned from the trade hardcover in a larger format-7" x 10".
• Each book numbered and signed by the author.
• Each volume hand-bound in Japanese silk.
• Each volume housed in a handsome slipcase featuring a die-cut aperture for the Quicksilver icon and covered in the same Japanese silk. The slipcase will also feature a silk ribbon pull for easy removal.
• Matching signed limited editions of the second and third volumes of Stephenson's Baroque Cycle will be published by William Morrow at six-month intervals.

About the author

Neal Stephenson is the author of Reamde, Anathem; the three-volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World); Cryptonomicon; The Diamond Age; Snow Crash, which was named one of Time magazine's top one hundred all-time best English-language novels; and Zodiac. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Quicksilver: Volume One of The Baroque Cycle; Volume 1 of The Baroque Cycle Series, Neal Stephenson
• Author: Neal Stephenson
• Publisher: Harper Collins, 2004
• ISBN: 0380977427, 9780380977420
• Length: 968 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Fantasy / Historical; Fiction / General; Fiction / Historical / General; Fiction / Sagas; Fiction / Science Fiction / General; Fiction / Thrillers / Technological