Kraken by China Miéville [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 2010 • Del-Rey

Kraken: An Anatomy by China Miéville 

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [2010] BALLANTINE BOOKS

Hardcover with dust jacket in beautiful condition.

Pristine copy with only minor shelf wear.  Reads as new. 

With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this—or any other—year. A dark urban fantasy thriller from one of the all-time masters of the genre.

Deep in the research wing of the Natural History Museum is a prize specimen, something that comes along much less often than once in a lifetime: a perfect, and perfectly preserved, giant squid. But what does it mean when the creature suddenly and impossibly disappears?

For curator Billy Harrow it's the start of a headlong pitch into a London of warring cults, surreal magic, apostates and assassins. It might just be that the creature he's been preserving is more than a biological rarity: there are those who are sure it's a god.

A god that someone is hoping will end the world.