Author: CHERRYH, C. J.
Title: The Faded Sun: Kesrith
Description: New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1978. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Illustrated by D. K. Stone. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. This is an early printing, but not a First Edition - with code K12 on page 247. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the spine ends of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is clean and bright. The front flap hinge of the dust jacket has a small patch of rubbing with beginning wear and tearing. The white dust jacket is clean and bright and the spine is not sunned as is often seen. "They were the mri, the People, and Kesrith was their home. Outsiders, the tsi'mri (literally, not people) , believe them to be a warrior species, because outsiders rarely, if ever, met the scholar or child-raiser castes, only members of the Kel caste." "She has written more than 60 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award-winning novels Downbelow Station (1981) and Cyteen (1988) , both set in her Alliance-Union universe. She is known for "world building," depicting fictional realms with great realism supported by vast research in history, language, psychology, and archeology. Her series of fantasy novels set in the Alliance-Union universe, the Morgaine Stories, have sold in excess of 3 million copies." ; Vol. 1. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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