Locke Lamora and the Bottled Serpent by Scott Lynch (Dinged)

$131 · Offered by Conversation Tree Press · No longer available

These imperfect copies are being sold at a discount and are ineligible for return. Issues may include bumped corners, imperfect marbling, marks on pages, creased artwork, etc. All artwork, text, and signatures are included. The hardcover is now sold out and will not be reprinted. The e-book edition is available on Amazon worldwide (here are quick links to the US , UK , and Canada ) and on Kobo . Locke Lamora and the Bottled Serpent is the Sixth title in Short Stops , a series from Conversation Tree Press dedicated to bringing exceptional shorter works of fiction to life through beautifully bound, letterpress-printed, limited editions that begin shipping immediately upon announcement. See the full announcement here . The novels in the acclaimed Gentleman Bastards series trace the exploits of an elite band of thieves and confidence artists moving through a richly imagined city-state shaped in the image of medieval Venice. In Locke Lamora and the Bottled Serpent , Scott Lynch returns to the cobblestones and canals of Camorr, offering a glimpse into the formative years of one of the young Gentleman Bastards. Here, however, Locke is not yet the architect of elaborate deceptions, but a boy apprenticed to learn something wholly new and entirely unnatural: the discipline and meagre rewards of (mostly) honest, hard labour. Set against the uproar of taverns and the quiet menace of the canals, the story focuses on an unlikely companionship and the education it affords. First published i

• Binding: Hardcover

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