A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire Book 1 (Song of Ice and Fire, 1)

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It’s a gilded hardcover that’s 896 pages long, includes a new introduction from professional nerd John Hodgman, and is filled with 73 illustrations (old and new) to head off each chapter, plus eight richly detailed color plates.

As a prophecy of doom cuts across the sky—a comet the color of blood and flame—six factions struggle for control of a divided land.

But when referencing a new Arantza Sestayo painting of Sansa and the Hound, Groell admits, “If you’re creating a character who has a very distinctive physical look—with scarring and stuff like that—there’s not a lot of ways you can create that.

Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still left in the world. It was not until they were mounted and on their way that Bran allowed himself to taste the sweet air of victory. But for detail-oriented fans, the most rewarding images in the illustrated A Game of Thrones may actually focus on architecture.The Folio Society presents a bewitching limited edition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle.