Dread Companion - Hardcover

Dread Companion

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, New York, 1970. 234 pgs. Signed and inscribed by Andre Norton on the title page. First Edition/First Printing. Richard Powers DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ. Bound in cloth with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf wear present. No ownership marks present. The text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. The story is about a girl changling who leads her brother and an older girl, Kilda, into an evil and enchanted land.Evoking a feeling of terror and horror, the author tells a fantastic tale with implied theme of evil fighting against good and the power of a strong will to survive. It's all cloaked in mystery and magic with the hint of a Rip Van Winkle conclusion updated to the year 2483. From inside front cover: Indeed, that was a strange gathering. There were those like Oomark, perhaps of the very group that had trailed us. There were women, slender, with thick green hair waving back and forth on their heads, their skin shining brown, wearing scant coverings of leaves. There were men and women humanoid in appearance, more so than these, and all had black hair and wore green. And there were others, some beautiful, some ugly, with now and then a head or face so grotesque as to seem out of a nightmare. They gathered around three sides of the platform, but facing Bartare there remained only the three of us. Kosgro broke grip with me. "Stop Her!" He made, I thought to fire at Bartare.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 234 pages. Artikel-Nr. 71717

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