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Get an Exclusive Peek at New Artwork from A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition
When Game of Thrones fans learned last week the show won’t return to HBO until next August, we nodded sagely: of course we’re going to have to wait for it. Waiting for it is kind of our thing. I came late to George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, picking up the books just as the TV series went into production, circa 2009. Even still, the two-year wait for book 5 seemed endless. The five years (and counting) journey to The Winds of Winter has been no less excruciating. But that’s nothing compared to the 20 years day-one readers have been following the fight for the future of the Seven Kingdoms—that’s right, it has been two decades since A Game of Thrones landed in bookstores, a well-reviewed but relatively unheralded first installment of what was then planned as a trilogy from an experienced writer who’d never quite had his big break.
A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition (A Song of Ice and Fire #1)
George R. R. Martin
Hardcover
$50.00
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To celebrate this momentous occasion, Martin and publisher Bantam Books have assembled A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition, due out on October 18, just in time for your holiday wishlist. The first such edition available to the general public (a different version was previously released by a small press in extremely limited quantities), and the first to feature artwork from more than a single artist, this new collector’s edition boasts 81 images—73 in black-and-white illustrations (one per chapter) and eight in full color—two-thirds of them never before seen.
We’ve been given the chance to show off one of them for the first time anywhere: “Tyrion’s Long Shadow,” is from artist Didier Graffet, who also brings Westeros to lush visual life in the A Song of Ice and Fire 2017 calendar. If this is the caliber of work we can expect from The Illustrated Edition, consider that copy preordered.
[caption id="attachment_12168" align="aligncenter" width="637"] “Tyrion’s Long Shadow,” by Didier Graffet (click here for a larger version)[/caption]
Here’s hoping illustrated editions of the rest of A Song of Ice and Fire are to follow. We can’t get enough of this world, that’s for sure.
Preorder A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition, available October 18, 2016.
