THE INFINITY CONCERTO with THE SERPENT MAGE

by Greg Bear

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey

London, Melbourne, Auckland, Johannesburg: Century, 1988 . Octavo, two volumes, boards. First hardcover editions. A tough kid from modern Los Angeles ventures into a parallel world of magic, after an elderly Hollywood composer leaves him the key to a mysterious building. Bear's imagined world, full of much beauty and cruelty, owes much to Coleridge's Xanadu and offers a refreshing reinterpretation of old themes Maxim

• Binding: Hardcover

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