Secondhand Fantasy Bargain Book Box SP4133

Secondhand Fantasy Bargain Book Box SP4133

Twenty-seven fantasy paperbacks and hardbacks: the complete Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales; A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings; four Raymond Feists including Magician; four Terry Brooks Shannaras; two Neil Gaiman Neverwheres plus Ocean at the End of the Lane; two Pratchetts; Robin Hobb, Eddings and a Wild Cards. The core fantasy shelf, assembled.

1. The Wishsong of Shannara — Terry Brooks — Brin Ohmsford’s song can shape the living world, and a Druid needs it to destroy the Ildatch. Original Shannara trilogy book three.
2. A Darkness at Sethanon — Raymond E. Feist — The Riftwar’s end: Pug returns from Kelewan, Tomas rides with the dragons, and the Enemy comes through at Sethanon. Riftwar Saga book three.
3. Silverthorn — Raymond E. Feist — Princess Anita is poisoned by a Nighthawk and Arutha has to find the cure in the Moredhel homeland. Riftwar book two, the quest one.
4. The Elf Queen of Shannara — Terry Brooks — Wren Ohmsford must find the vanished Elves, and they’re on an island full of monsters. Heritage of Shannara book three.
5. The Dragon Keeper — Robin Hobb — Malformed dragons hatch in the Rain Wilds and a group of misfits is sent to lead them upriver to a city that may not exist. Rain Wild Chronicles book one.
6. A Game of Thrones — George R.R. Martin — Ned Stark goes south to be the King’s Hand, and the king is a drunk, the queen is lying and winter is coming. The first book, still the best, and the only one with a proper ending.
7. The Redemption of Althalus — David & Leigh Eddings — A thief hired to steal a book meets the goddess who wrote it, who happens to be a cat. The Eddings’ only standalone, and their funniest.
8. Magician — Raymond E. Feist — Pug the kitchen boy becomes a magician’s apprentice as a rift opens between his world and a warrior empire’s. The book that launched Feist and the Riftwar, in the author’s preferred edition.
9. Unfinished Tales — J.R.R. Tolkien — Tuor’s journey to Gondolin, the Istari, the Disaster of the Gladden Fields, and Galadriel’s history. The Middle-earth drafts Christopher Tolkien thought worth publishing. Unicorn paperback.
10. The Elfstones of Shannara — Terry Brooks — The Ellcrys is dying, the Forbidding is failing, and Wil Ohmsford has to protect the Elf girl who can renew it. Shannara book two, and the fans’ favourite.
11. Farmer Giles of Ham and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil — J.R.R. Tolkien — A fat farmer, a dragon called Chrysophylax, and Tolkien’s comic side. With the Tom Bombadil poems.
12. Shards of a Broken Crown — Raymond E. Feist — The Serpentwar’s end: Krondor is in ruins and the Kingdom has to take it back. Serpentwar Saga book four.
13. The Sword of Shannara — Terry Brooks — Shea Ohmsford, the last heir of Shannara, must find the Sword and face the Warlock Lord. The 1977 book that proved Tolkien could be done again. Book one.
14. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring — J.R.R. Tolkien — Frodo leaves the Shire with the Ring, and the Nine ride after him. Film tie-in paperback.
15. The Light Fantastic — Terry Pratchett — Rincewind, Twoflower and the Luggage fall off the edge of the Disc and the world is about to end. Discworld book two, the first one that’s recognisably Pratchett.
16. Carpe Jugulum — Terry Pratchett — Vampires move into Lancre and the witches object. Granny Weatherwax’s finest hour. Discworld book twenty-three.
17. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King — J.R.R. Tolkien — Minas Tirith, the Pelennor, Mount Doom, and the Scouring of the Shire that the film left out. Film tie-in paperback.
18. The Hobbit — J.R.R. Tolkien — Bilbo, thirteen dwarves, a dragon, and a ring found in the dark. The green-cover edition with Tolkien’s own painting.
19. The Silmarillion — J.R.R. Tolkien — The creation of Middle-earth, the Silmarils, Beren and Lúthien, the fall of Gondolin and Númenor. The myths behind The Lord of the Rings, in the first-edition-style cover. Hardback.
20. The Ocean at the End of the Lane — Neil Gaiman — A man returns to his childhood lane and remembers the girl next door who said her pond was an ocean, and the thing that came through from the other side. Gaiman’s shortest and most personal novel. Hardback.
21. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers — J.R.R. Tolkien — Rohan, Helm’s Deep, Gollum, and Shelob. Hardback, first-edition-style jacket.
22. Fort Freak — ed. George R.R. Martin — A Wild Cards novel set in the police precinct of Jokertown. Mosaic novel by Martin’s stable of writers. Hardback.
23. Neverwhere — Neil Gaiman — Richard helps a bleeding girl on a London pavement and falls through into London Below, where the Angel Islington lives under the Underground. The red-covered edition.
24. Neverwhere — Neil Gaiman — The same novel in the Headline rat-cover edition. Two copies of different editions in the box.
25. A Clash of Kings — George R.R. Martin — Five kings, the Battle of the Blackwater, and Arya in Harrenhal. Book two.