Secondhand Fantasy Bargain Book Box SP4287

Secondhand Fantasy Bargain Book Box SP4287

Seventeen fantasy paperbacks with the big names of the 1990s and 2000s: Tolkien’s Fellowship, Two Towers and Silmarillion in the black Harper editions, four Raymond Feists including both Krondor novels, three Terry Brooks Shannaras, Robert Jordan’s Path of Daggers, New Spring and the Wheel of Time Companion, Patricia McKillip, Maggie Furey, Ian Irvine and Eileen Kernaghan. A reading shelf for someone starting the big series.

1. The Two Towers — J.R.R. Tolkien — The Fellowship broken: Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli chase the orcs to Rohan, Merry and Pippin meet the Ents, and Frodo and Sam follow Gollum to the stairs of Cirith Ungol. The middle book, and the one with Helm’s Deep and Shelob. Black Harper edition.
2. The Fellowship of the Ring — J.R.R. Tolkien — Frodo leaves the Shire with the Ring, the Black Riders follow, and the Fellowship forms at Rivendell and breaks at Amon Hen. Part one, in the black edition with the red circle.
3. 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, edited by Christopher Tolkien after his father’s death. Black Harper edition.
4. Krondor: The Assassins — Raymond E. Feist — Prince Arutha returns to Krondor to find the Nighthawks back and someone murdering his nobles. The second Riftwar Legacy book, based on the Betrayal at Krondor game.
5. Heir of Sea and Fire — Patricia McKillip — Raederle, promised to the Prince of Hed, goes looking for him when he vanishes and discovers her own power. Book two of the Riddle-Master trilogy, the best-written fantasy of its decade. Futura.
6. The Sword of Flame — Maggie Furey — Aurian and Anvar seek the Sword, the third Artefact of Power, while the Mage Miathan rules. Book three of four; pure magic, says Today.
7. Rise of a Merchant Prince — Raymond E. Feist — Roo Avery, pardoned thief, sets out to become the richest man in Krondor, and does. Serpentwar Saga book two, and Feist’s one novel about money. Tons of intrigue and action, says Publishers Weekly.
8. Krondor: The Betrayal — Raymond E. Feist — A moredhel renegade warns of a plot and Arutha, Jimmy the Hand and Locklear ride north to stop it. The first Riftwar Legacy book.
9. Shadow of a Dark Queen — Raymond E. Feist — Erik von Darkmoor and Roo Avery, condemned to hang, are given a choice: die, or join a suicide mission to the Emerald Queen’s continent. Serpentwar Saga book one, Feist’s darkest.
10. The Scions of Shannara — Terry Brooks — Three hundred years after the Wishsong, the Shadowen rule and the ghost of Allanon calls the Ohmsford heirs. Heritage of Shannara book one.
11. Songs from the Drowned Lands — Eileen Kernaghan — The last days of a drowned Atlantis-like land, told by its singers. Canadian fantasy, scarce, with the harp cover.
12. The Path of Daggers — Robert Jordan — Rand takes Illian, the Seanchan land in Ebou Dar, and the Bowl of the Winds is used. Wheel of Time book eight.
13. The Wheel of Time Companion — Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk & Maria Simons — Every person, place and term in the fourteen books, with the One Power explained. The encyclopaedia, assembled from Jordan’s notes after his death.
14. Wizard at Large — Terry Brooks — Ben Holiday, High Lord of Landover, and the wizard Questor Thews’s spell that turns Abernathy the dog back into a man, badly. Magic Kingdom book three, Brooks’s comic series.
15. New Spring — Robert Jordan — Moiraine and Lan, twenty years before The Eye of the World, and how they met. The Wheel of Time prequel, and the shortest book in the series.
16. Geomancer — Ian Irvine — Tiaan, an artisan who makes the crystals that power the clankers, in a war against the lyrinx. Book one of the Well of Echoes, Irvine’s second Three Worlds quartet.
17. The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Morgawr — Terry Brooks — The sorcerer Morgawr pursues the airship Jerle Shannara home, and the Ilse Witch has to choose a side. Book three, the trilogy’s end.