The Earth Book of Stormgate by Anderson, Poul - 1978

E-148: Berkley Pub. Corp.. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1978. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Berkley Publishing Corporation, G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1978. 390 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ has a tear present to the front panel). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards very lightly rubbed and worn. One of the great modern works of the imagination, this book tells of the trader van Rijn and the adventurer Falkayn; it rounds and completes the future history of the Polesotechnic League that spans four thousand years of Earth's interstellar empire; and it chronicles Mankind's encounters with the great-winged Ythri, who kept this record at far Stormgate. "Behold these animals from the discovery on through the World-Taking. They are garnered from different trees, and few of them will seem at once to grow toward the same sun. Yet they do. "This is the tale, told afresh, of how Avalon came to settlement and thus our choth to being. This is the tale as told by Terrans, who walk the Earth...E-148; 8.4 X 5.4 X 1.6 inches; 390 pages .