![]() ![]() Perhaps thats because we spend some time in an alternate world, and Vance is thus freed. First two books in the "Lyonesse" series Check out the scans. The Green Pearl by Jack Vance, 1986, Berkley Books edition, in English. The Green Pearl is a much better book than I recalled it being. "A monument of fantastic literature to stand beside such classics as DUNE and THE LORD OF THE RINGS, LYONESSE evokes the Elder Isles, a baroque land of pre-Arthurian myth now lost beneath the Atlantic, where powerful sorcerers, aloof faeries, stalwart champions, & nobles eccentric, magnanimous, & cruel pursue intrigue among their separate worlds." Books are: (Lyonesse (Suldrun's Garden): 1. Soft covers (roughly) 7" by 4 1/4" (inches), flat spines, clean tight square & true, 436, 407 pages, Very Good to Very Good Plus condition with Green Pearl having a small ding to head of spine causing some wrinkling to spine head & with ink name to title page, with some creasing to spine of Lyonesse, faint edge wear. He also wrote 11 mystery novels as John Holbrook Vance and three as Ellery Queen, and once each used. The scans you see are the books you get. Most of his work was published under the name Jack Vance. ![]()
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