Une tempête dépées édition collector - George R.R. Martin - Folio 2024 Society - Neuf

Bound in three-quarter blocked cloth with a printed and blocked cloth front board
Set in Vendetta with Esmeralda as display
1,128 pages in total over two volumes
12 full page illustrations and 4 double-page spread colour illustrations
Printed in black & gold throughout
11 illustrated chapter openers and 15 illustrated house sigils
15 family trees in volume two
Printed endpapers
Coloured tops
Blocked and printed slipcase with printed illustration inside
10˝ x 6¾˝

George R. R. Martin is a celebrated author of fantasy, horror and science-fiction stories and novels. He began publishing short stories in science-fiction and fantasy magazines in the early 1970s, and his first novel,Dying of the Light, was published in 1977. Martin went on to work as a television scriptwriter in the 1980s, before – discouraged by the limitations of the medium – he returned to writing fiction, beginning work on the epic fantasy series for which he is best known, ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’, inspired by medieval England’s Wars of the Roses. The first instalment,A Game of Thrones, was published in 1996; the fourth volume (A Feast for Crows, 2005; Folio 2021) and fifth volume (A Dance with Dragons, 2011; Folio 2022) earned Martin best-seller status. The winner of multiple Nebula and Hugo Awards, as well as the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, Martin has also received three Emmy Awards for his work as a producer on the HBO adaptation of his ‘Song of Ice and Fire’ novels,Game of Thrones.

‘[IllustratingA Game of Thrones] became much more involved than I ever imagined with the universe of characters, costumes, settings and creatures all needing to be interpreted in an original way whilst being true to the book. I threw myself into this world 100% and relished in its rich and strange visual atmosphere bringing together medieval romanticism, dark drama and chilling horror. Delicious.’

Jonathan Burton has worked as an illustrator since 1999, after graduating with an MA from Kingston University, London. He has been awarded two silver medals from the Society of Illustration in New York, two Awards of Excellence from Communication Arts, and has received the Overall Professional Award for 2013 from the Association of Illustrators. For The Folio Society he has also illustratedCover Her Faceby P. D. James,Nineteen Eighty-Fourby George Orwell, the fullA Song of Ice and Fire seriesby George R. R. Martin and the entireHitchhikers seriesalong with anextraordinary limited editionof Adams’s comedic space odyssey. Most recently, he illustrated the Folio edition ofThe Enchanted Wood. Jonathan lives in Bordeaux, France.