A Game of Thrones.

Martin, George R.R. [Roy Avers]

Published by Bantam, New York, 1996

About this Item

First edition of the first book in the author's acclaimed Game of Thrones series. Octavo, original half-cloth, cartographic endpapers. Narrator's copy with the audiobook production recording log page on the verso of the front free endpaper with Roy Avers as narrator and his annotations throughout. Roy Avers is a bass vocalist with the Louisville Opera, and a dedicated volunteer narrator for the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, the program administered by the Library of Congress that produces and distributes audio recordings of books and periodicals free of charge to Americans with visual impairments or other print disabilities. Over the course of his volunteer career Avers has narrated more than 300 books spanning multiple genres, a contribution of extraordinary scope that represents thousands of hours of careful, skilled reading placed in the service of readers who would otherwise be excluded from the literary culture that sighted readers take for granted. The National Library Service, established by Congress in 1931 and expanded significantly by the Pratt-Smoot Act, operates through a network of regional libraries and volunteer recording studios and has provided accessible reading materials to millions of Americans across nearly a century â " with volunteer narrators like Avers forming the essential human core of its mission. Avers recorded his version of Game of Thrones five years before the "official" Dotrice version. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Tom Hallman. Book design by James Sinclair. A unique example. The Game of Thrones Series has been likened to Tolkien s Lord of the Rings saga and T.H. White s Once and Future King. Critics call this "one of the best fantasy series ever written" (Denver Post). The books in the series have sold more than 15 million copies and have been translated into more than 20 languages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Game of Thrones.
• Publisher: Bantam, New York
• Publication Date: 1996
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Edition