The Starless Sea (First UK edition-first printing)

Morgenstern, Erin

ISBN 10: 1910701459 / ISBN 13: 9781910701454

Published by Harvill Secker, 2019

About this Item

Near fine/VGC. Harvill Secker, 2019. First UK edition-first printing (1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2). Black hardback (gilt lettering to the spine, small nick on the edges of the cover) in near fine condition, with Dj cover (two small tears, creases and nicks on the edges of the Dj cover) in VGC. Nice and clean pages as new with two small ink marks on the outer edges, light shelf wear on the Dj cover. 498pp. Price un-clipped. A collectable first edition. Seller Inventory # 12591

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Starless Sea (First UK edition-first ...

Publisher: Harvill Secker

Publication Date: 2019

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very good

Edition: First UK edition-first printing.

About this title

Synopsis:

The magical new novel from the bestselling author of The Night Circus.

Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a strange book hidden in the library stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues – a bee, a key and a sword – that lead him to a masquerade party in New York, to a secret club, and through a doorway to a subterranean library, hidden far below the surface of the earth.

What Zachary finds in this curious place is more than just a buried home for books and their guardians – it is a place of lost cities and seas, lovers who pass notes under doors and across time, and of stories whispered by the dead. Zachary learns of those who have sacrificed much to protect this realm, relinquishing their sight and their tongues to preserve this archive, and also those who are intent on its destruction.

Together with Mirabel, a fierce, pink-haired protector of the place, and Dorian, a handsome barefoot man with shifting alliances, Zachary travels the twisting tunnels, darkened stairwells, crowded ballrooms, and sweetly-soaked shores of this magical world, searching for understanding, both of the mysterious book and his own life.