A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin - 1996: Book One of a Song of Ice and Fire
by George R.R. Martin
A Game of Thrones: Book One of a Song of Ice and Fire
by George R.R. Martin
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A Game of Thrones Book One of A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin Hardcover First Edition - First Printing HarperCollins Voyager UK 1996. £16.99 cover price. Beautiful wrap-around dust jacket artwork by Jim Burns, the best cover art of any of the Game of Thrones/Song of Ice and Fire titles, and far far better than the US' silly cover art of a throne. Red cloth binding, about 9.5x6.5", 694 numbered pages. (This copy is NOT the BCA edition)
Fine- in Fine Dust Jacket. A nearly perfect copy which may be unread, binding is tight, pages mostly clean, slight toning to the text-block but much less than what I've seen on other copies,very faint transparent blemishes on the boards, very difficult to see, a tiny bump to the upper right-hand corner, and a hint of tenderness to the corners. The dust jacket featuring wrap-around cover artwork by Jim Burns is PERFECT with absolutely NO imperfections that I can see. NO tears and NO chips.
Edition Note: A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin was first published in hardcover in the UK by HarperCollins/Voyager and Bantam in the US in 1996. Some controversy exists regarding which edition appeared first. The release date of the UK edition was before the official release date for the US edition, but some copies of the US edition were made available at a science fiction convention.
However, I would argue the release dates are the true measure because, unless someone attended the convention, they weren't going to acquire this book until the release date. The UK edition published by HarperCollins-Voyager was probably printed in 10% of the numbers of the Bantam edition, my guess in only 2000 to 4000 copies and features stunning dust jacket artwork by Jim Burns, while the miserable US edition just had an outline of a throne. (Apparently there was alternative artwork for the US edition which was rejected by the publisher and they didn't have time to commission new artwork. Some advance reading copies have the unused artwork.) It has since been reprinted many times by Bantam US in hardcover but as far as I can tell not in the UK with this artwork, save a BCA edition. In 2014, Subterranean Press issued the first signed-limited and illustrated edition of GOT in two-volumes and slipcase which now runs about $1000+. This is the first UK edition of the book as far as I can tell.
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- Bookseller TristanBooks (US)
- Illustrator Jim Burns
- Format/Binding Hardcover in Dust Jacket
- Book Condition Used - Fine-
- Jacket Condition Fine
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition First UK Edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher HarperCollins Voyager UK
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1996
- Pages 694
- Size octavo
- Size octavo
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)
by George R.R. Martin
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