This is a pre-order with an expected shipping date of Q3 2026.

Our signed, limited edition of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel is published in three states: Collector’s, Deluxe and, Lettered Editions. See the announcement here.

Time, memory, and human connection ripple across centuries in Sea of Tranquility, a novel by Canadian author Emily St. John Mandel. Conversation Tree Press is honoured to present a letterpress-printed, signed, limited edition of this haunting and intricately woven novel of pandemics, temporal anomalies, and the fragile threads that connect us.

First published in 2022, Sea of Tranquility traverses continents and centuries—from a remote forest in 1912 British Columbia to a lunar colony in the 2400s—drawing seemingly disparate lives into a single, resonant narrative. At its heart is a mysterious anomaly in time, one that echoes through generations and offers a meditation on the nature of existence and the illusion of permanence.

Sea of Tranquility has been praised as by The Guardian as “hugely ambitious in scope, yet also intimate and written with a graceful and beguiling fluency,” and as “one of Mandel’s finest novels” by The New York Times.

DELUXE EDITION:

• Limited to only 250 hand-numbered copies.
• Letterpress printed on Magnani Pescia 130gsm (~90lb) paper by Nomad Letterpress, England.
• Hand bound by Ludlow Bookbinders in full goatskin leather foil stamped with silver stars, and an inlaid “moon” made of cowhide leather from Conceria Walpier Tannery in Tuscany, Italy, which has a unique metallic swirl design.
• Top edge is silver-gilded.
• Title is stamped in silver on the spine in a blind-stamped rectangular area devoid of stars
• Signed by Emily St. John Mandel and Denis Sarazhin.
  
• 10 full colour plates tipped in by hand.
  
• Enclosed in a custom slipcase handmade by Ludlow Bookbinders. The sides are wrapped in cloth, the top is capped in the same leather as the moon, and the bottom is capped in the same leather as the night sky, sans stars.
• Slipcase lined with Suedel for maximum protection.
• Trim size of 170mm by 240mm (6.7in by 9.5in).
• 262 pages.