DRAGON SEA: A TRUE TALE OF TREASURE,ARCHEOLOGY,AND GREED OFF THE COAST OF VIETNAM.[Possibly an association copy?]

US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete letter line A C E G I K J H F D B.Possibly an association copy - as author's personal business card with his web-site+email addresses and his UK,US and Kenya 'phone numbers on it,laid in loose. Also loose,other ephemera - INDUSTRIA ARGENTINA, New York City,10013 and Azul ARGENTINE BISTRO,152 Stanton St., Lower East Side NYC business cards - (Latin American,South American restaurant and a bistro - and both closed approx 2008.) FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (US$25.00) to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour illustrated dw/dj design by Larry Rostant,with blue,white and gilt colour lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Both head+ foot of dw/dj's spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing,and both external vertical edges of dw/djs' inner flaps have a couple of minor,superficial abrasions in places - but without affecting the board's edges beneath.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,would appear unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,colour speckled,cream paper-covered boards with pale blue blind-spine'd boards,with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.US,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,x-xxiiipp +4-341pp [paginated] includes author's foreword,a prologue with an unpaginated b/w area/location map to it's reverse,an introduction,Pts 1-3 comprising 25 chapters and an epilogue,b/w line illus+diagrams throughout the text,acknowledgements,a note on sources and an index. Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,a contents list/table and 2pp blanks at the rear.Author's stunning debut. When Oxford archeologist Mensun Bound - dubbed the "Indiana Jones of the Deep" by the Discovery Channel - teamed up with a financier to salvage a sunken trove of fifteenth-century ceramics,it seemed a dream enterprise. The stakes were high: The Hoi An wreck lay hundreds of feet down in the Dragon Sea,a typhoon-prone stretch of water off the coast of Vietnam.Raising its contents required saturation diving,a crew of 160, and a fleet of ships.The costs were unprecedented.But the potential rewards were equally high: Bound would revolutionize thinking about Vietnamese art,and his partner would make a fortune auctioning off the pieces.Hired as the project's archeological manager,Frank Pope watched the tumultuous drama of the Hoi An salvage unfold. In 'Dragon Sea' he delivers an engrossing tale of danger,adventure,and ambition - a fascinating object lesson in what happens when scholarship and money join forces to recover lost treasure. Please contact seller @rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. **N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **