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 26 copies inscribed A-Z
• Signed by Emily St. John Mandel and Denis Sarazhin.
• Letterpress printed on Somerset Book 160gsm (~110lb) mould-made paper by Nomad Letterpress, England.
• Hand bound by Ludlow Bookbinders in full leather from Alran S.A.S. Tannery in France with silver foil stamping and a mother of pearl inlay.
• Top edge is silver-gilded.
• 10 full colour plates tipped in by hand.
• The book is housed in a hand made, capped enclosure made of sturdy boards wrapped in a coated linen fabric that has a captivatingly beautiful glitter effect meant to evoke the beauty and vastness of space. Where the two halves of the enclosure meet, a circular piece of vellum from William Cowely in the UK marks the location of the moon on the book within.
• Slipcase lined with Suedel for maximum protection.
• Trim size of 170mm by 240mm (6.7in by 9.5in).
• 262 pages.