Road Corlay, First Edition (24 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Don Maitz (illustrator). First American Edition. 1st printing, Sept. 1979. Cover art by Don Maitz. Corner wear; creasing; tanning; minor edge stains. Book.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Don Maitz (illustrator). First American Edition. 1st printing, Sept. 1979. Cover art by Don Maitz. Tears to cover at upper edges; tanning; minor creasing; minor edge nicks and wear. Book.

Softcover. Condition: As New. First Edition. A crisp, clean, tightly bound softcover copy appearing unread, presenting light shelf wear only. Read descriptions carefully. Avoid GLASSFROGBOOKS, ERGODOBOOKS, MORE BOOKS, IRISH BOOKSELLERS, PRO QUO/BAYSIDE BOOKS, BOOKSPLEASE, RIA CHRISTIE, DISCOVER BOOKS, BOOKS2ANYWHERE, BOOKS EXPRESS, CHIRON MEDIA! These "Booksellers" have no books of their own. they buy honest booksellers' books, upcharge you and have no idea what the book is really like. Support your local and small bookstore owners!

Don Maitz (illustrator). 1979 Cowper, Richard THE ROAD TO CORLAY NY: Pocket Books, c1979 First printing 239pp Bookstore stamp inside front cover else Near fine mass market paperback copy.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: VG-. Don Maitz (illustrator). 1st Printing. The first book in the White Bird of Kinship series. Don Maitz cover art.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good+ to Near Fine. Don Maitz (illustrator). First American Edition. 1st printing, Sept. 1979. Cover art by Don Maitz. Corner wear; tanning; minor bumps and dings. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Don Maitz (illustrator). 1st Edition. A volunteer is given drugs to induce an out of body experience -- and his colleagues can't bring him back out of his coma. Has his mind traveled to another world? And how will he get back? Mass market paperback. First printing as indicated by the complete number string 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on the copyright page, so presumed first edition, first printing thus. This is a used book. Pages are clean and bright with no markings, notes, or highlighting. Covers show minor shelf wear; front cover has a small chip out. No owner's marks or bookplates, not ex-library. Binding is tight and square. Hinges are secure. Price sticker on rear cover. Corners not bumped; small chip out of rear upper corner.

Paperback. Condition: F. 1st Paperback Edition. Pocket Books #82917-3, 1979. First paperback printing in fine conditio n. Cover by Don Maitz.

Paperback. first edition. paperback, very good - fine.

Paperback. first edition. almost near fine, paperback, paperback,

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fine. Don Maitz (illustrator). First U.S. Edition. Pseudonym of Colin Murray. The Enchanting Bird of Kinship Saga, Volume Three. Cover art by Don Maitz. Signed by Maitz on the title page. Signed by Cover Artist.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Clipped dust jacket. Straight, secure spine. Clean interiors.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. the jacket is lightly shelf rubbed.mild tanning.light marks.well bound.good copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first U.S. edition. First book of "The White Bird of Kinship" trilogy. 1979 Nebula nominee. Religious dystopia. "A thousand years hence an inundated Britain consists of many small islands, where a neo-medieval, theocratic society is disrupted by the coming of a millenarian cult which holds out the hope of social and spiritual renewal. Well-written, rather touching sf of a backward-looking pastoral sort." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, p. 307. Text expanded, adds the prologue "Piper at the Gates of Dawn." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-285. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. A fine copy. (#22037).

Octavo, boards. First U.S. hardcover edition. First printing with code "J 47" on page 209. First book of "The White Bird of Kinship" trilogy. 1979 Nebula nominee. Religious dystopia. "A thousand years hence an inundated Britain consists of many small islands, where a neo-medieval, theocratic society is disrupted by the coming of a millenarian cult which holds out the hope of social and spiritual renewal. Well-written, rather touching sf of a backward-looking pastoral sort." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, p. 307. Text expanded, adds the prologue "Piper at the Gates of Dawn." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-285. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169426).

Octavo, boards. First book of "The White Bird of Kinship" trilogy. 1979 Nebula nominee. Religious dystopia. "A thousand years hence an inundated Britain consists of many small islands, where a neo-medieval, theocratic society is disrupted by the coming of a millenarian cult which holds out the hope of social and spiritual renewal. Well-written, rather touching sf of a backward-looking pastoral sort." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, p. 307. Text expanded, adds the prologue "Piper at the Gates of Dawn." [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-285. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions]. Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169426) (30056) First U.S. hardcover edition. First printing with code "J 47" on page 209.

First edition. 158 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket with a partial price-increase sticker over the price on the front flap.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Don Maitz (illustrator). Paperback First Thus. 239pp. Wraparound cover art by Don Maitz. Nearly as new, slight partial spine crease, faint age-spotting, few fox spots to edges, dash on tops. Owner's name on pastedown. First volume in the White Bird of Kinship trilogy, telling of the rise of a new religion in a quasi-mediaeval barbaric future Britain. (Science fiction, Fantasy).

Hardback. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG DW. 1st Thus.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. First American edition. UNCORRECTED PROOF. Very good+ in plain red printed wrappers. (Spine lean with title & author inked. ) Volume three of The Enchanting Bird of Kinship saga. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of Richard Cowper's exciting science fiction novel, the first novel in a series, in the iconic original yellow Gollancz dust wrapper. Set a thousand years into the future, Britain has become seven Kingdoms as a result of rising sea levels, technology is primitive and the Church rules. It follows an attempt to smuggle two relics to a French monastery, as well as a twentieth century neurological experiment.This work was the sequel to the short story 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn', which serves as a prologue. 'The Road to Corlay' was then followed by 'A Dream of Kinship' and 'A Tapestry of Time' as the White Bird of Kinship series.Written by John Middleton Murry (1926-2002), an English writer who published under the pseudonyms Colin Murry and Richard Cowper.Complete in a yellow Gollancz dust wrapper, which is unclipped.A first edition.Imaginative, thrilling and filled with emotion, this is amongst Cowper's most brilliant writings. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart, with just a touch of bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Dust wrapper is a little sunned to the spine, which has the slightest bumping at the head and tail, but is otherwise in excellent condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. first printing. "The first of three novel length sequels to the fine novella, "Piper at the Gates of Dawn." The books are lyrical fantasies affirming the author's conviction that it is spiritual rather than technological development that truly constitutes human progress." Referenced in Barron; Anatomy of Wonder 4 [1995], 4-118. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Book.

Hardcover. First edition (& 1st printing). First in the White Bird of Kinship trilogy, followed by A DREAM OF KINSHIP (1981) and A TAPESTRY OF TIME (1982). Preceded by (and the whole series based around) an earlier short story ''The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn'' (which was also the title of Pink Floyd's first album, incidentally). SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).