THE POWER THAT PRESERVES

Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1977, BCE.  Hard cover, 392 pages including Glossary.  Some corner and spine end wear, spine creased; binding sound with a slight lean.  Dust jacket has edge and cover wear, short edge tears with some repaired on verso, rubs and tiny colour chips.  Interior clean and unmarked; black and white map.  Jacket design by S. C. Wyeth.  ‘Twice Thomas Covenant has been wrenched out of his bitter life of isolation and scorn to find himself the reluctant instrument of conflict between good and evil in that magical world known as the Land.  Again he returns; but now, realizing his responsibility for the Land’s survival, and in angry atonement for having been the cause of so much of its anguish and peril, he will no longer be manipulated.  He is prepared to make his own stand against Lord Foul the Despiser, to use – if only he can discover how – the power that is his alone, feared beyond all other by Foul and his minions.’ (from front flap)