The Other Wind
by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0151006849
- ISBN 13
- 9780151006847
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, 2001. first. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cliff Nielsen. First edition. Dust jacket has light edge wear, metallic pigment in image, raised print; now in new removable protective cover. Orange boards with copper print on brown spine. Pages are clean and unmarked, deckle edges. Harcourt hard cover with dust jacket, first edition (stated), first printing, complete number line. ISBN: 9780151006847, 246 pages, cover art by Cliff Nielsen. 8vo (6.25"" x 9.25"") Winner, 2002 World Fantasy Award. Nominated, 2002 Nebula Award, 2002 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. 2nd place, 2002 Locus Poll Award. Final entry in the Earthsea series, preceded by: A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu, and Tales from Earthsea.
Synopsis
The sorcerer Alder fears sleep. He dreams of the land of death, of his wife who died young and longs to return to him so much that she kissed him across the low stone wall that separates our world from the Dry Land-where the grass is withered, the stars never move, and lovers pass without knowing each other. The dead are pulling Alder to them at night. Through him they may free themselves and invade Earthsea. Alder seeks advice from Ged, once Archmage. Ged tells him to go to Tenar, Tehanu, and the young king at Havnor. They are joined by amber-eyed Irian, a fierce dragon able to assume the shape of a woman. The threat can be confronted only in the Immanent Grove on Roke, the holiest place in the world and there the king, hero, sage, wizard, and dragon make a last stand. Le Guin combines her magical fantasy with a profoundly human, earthly, humble touch.
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- Bookseller
- Bujoldfan (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 121515039780151006847cvr
- Title
- The Other Wind
- Author
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Illustrator
- Cliff Nielsen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first
- ISBN 10
- 0151006849
- ISBN 13
- 9780151006847
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Pages
- 246
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Earthsea
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction / Fantasy; First editions;
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