SORCERY RISING: BOOK ONE OF FOOL'S GOLD.

UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by Paul Young,illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners,no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges lightly aged/toned; contents bright,tight and clean.Publisher's bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered original plain dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2-502pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-4 comprising a prologue,+23 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,b/w map frntis and 2pp blanks at rear.
From the barren isles of the North come the Eyrans. Hardy seafaring folk.From the South come her old enemies,the Istrians.Slave-owners,who drove the Eyrans from their lands.And from all over Elda come the nomadic peoples - the Footloose - purveyors of charms and (until now) harmless potions.
But whence comes the sorcery that disrupts the annual Allfair at which they all gather? Katla Aransen and her family have sailed to the fair to trade their goods.The Vingo clan have travelled from Istria to purchase a bride for their apalling eldest son.Tycho Issian has come to sell his daughter to the highest bidder.King Ravn Asharson, Stallion of the North,seeks a political alliance; while others seek his downfall.
For centuries,Elda has been bereft of magic; but ths year something has changed.A mysterious force is abroad once more,and it will change the world forever.
An epic tale of gods,great journeys,love and betrayal, 'SORCERY RISING' opens one of fantastical fiction's all-time classic.' Author's debut novel.
Jude Fisher is a pseudonym for Jane Johnson,publishing director of HarperCollin's SF imprint,Voyager.
She has two literature degrees,specialising in Anglo Saxon and Old Icelandic texts,and is also a qualified lecturer.For the last seventeen years,Jane has been the publisher of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.She is also the author of the official Visual Companions to Peter Jackson's movie trilogy of THE LORD OF THE RINGS,and with M. John Harrison has had four novels published under the pseaudonym of Gabriel King.
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