A Game of Thrones; Book One of: A Song of Ice and Fire
$1,000 · Offered by Biblio
First edition
London: Voyager, 1996. First Edition. Preceding the American and all other editions, 8vo, pp. 694. Publisher's red cloth, light rubbing and soiling, ownership signature to the front endpaper, very good in a jacket with general wear, some splits to the flap folds, and soft creases, very good. The opening novel of Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, one of the most ambitious projects in contemporary fantasy fiction; a multi-generational saga of dynastic conflict, political betrayal, and moral ambiguity set in a world where the cycles of history repeat with the indifference of seasons. Where earlier epic fantasy had largely followed Tolkien's template of a struggle between legible good and evil, Martin's innovation was to place his reader inside a world where every claimant to power has a credible case and every act of honor carries a potentially fatal cost. The HBO adaptation, which ran from 2011 to 2019, brought the series to a global audience of hundreds of millions, but the books remain the richer and more uncompromising version of the story. You should read this because Martin permanently expanded the boundaries of what fantasy fiction could be.
- Publisher: Voyager
- Year: 1996
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: unknown
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