A Game of Thrones. Book One of a Song of Ice and Fire. New York: Bantam Books, 1996. First Edition. Black quarter cloth paper boards, cartographic endpapers & publisher’s silver pictorial dust jacket. A fine bright copy.

The first volume in George R. R. Martin’s magnificent cycle of novels, it is also the namesake and basis for the first season of the popular HBO television series ‘Game of Thrones.’