Fine/Near fine. HarperVoyager,2014. First UK edition-first printing (1). Large format grey hardback (silver illustration on the front cover, silver lettering to the spine) in fine condition, with Dj cover (a couple of small nicks on the edges of the Dj cover) in near fine condition. Illustrated with many colour photos, drawings, maps. Nice and clean pages as new. 327pp including Afterword, appendices, index. Price un-clipped. A collectable first edition. Heavy book (approx. 1.9 Kg.). This is another paragraph Book Description: The never-before-seen history of Westeros and the lands beyond. With hundreds of pages of all-new material from George R.R. Martin. If the past is prologue, then George R.R. Martin's masterwork - the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time - warrants one hell of an introduction.At long last, it has arrived with The World of Ice and Fire. George R.R. Martin, in collaboration with Elio M. Garc?¡a, Jr. and Linda Antonsson, has written a comprehensive history of the Seven Kingdoms, featuring the epic battles, bitter rivalries, and daring rebellions that lead up to the events in the bestselling A Song of Ice and Fire series.Collected within this volume is the accumulated knowledge, scholarly speculation, and inherited folk tales of maesters and septons, maegi and singers, family trees for the Houses Stark, Lannister and Targaryen, and in-depth explanations of the history and culture of Westeros.This is the definitive companion volume to George R.R. Martin's dazzlingly conceived universe; The World of Ice and Fire is indeed proof that the pen is mightier than a storm of swords.