Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1986. 426 pp. Approximately 5 1/2 x 8 1/2". Illustrated dust jacket crisp and clean with only minor wear, unclipped wrapper with price of $17.95 intact, in near fine condition. Blue paper boards with black cloth spine, gilt lettering on spine is sharp, some spotting to top page edges, map endpapers, inscribed on the title page, "For Diane - Keep fighting the darkness. Best. Raymond E. Feist", the Diane in this case refers to Diane Peterson, also known as "The Book Lady" - a well-known antiquarian book dealer in the California Bay Area, in near fine condition.

Raymond E. Feist (1945 - ) is an American author of fantasy fiction, best known for his series of novels called The Riftwar Cycle, this being the finale of that series. As stated on the dust jacket, "This thrilling finale is high fantasy at its very best -- alive with enchantment, romance, and the heady clash of steel on steel."