The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition

Book is like a giant brick and very heavy, with text in small font. Not at all an appropriate format for a child or teenager to read.

In addition to having all the Earthsea books, this print contains afterwords from the author and illustrations. The print cover is well-made. Of course it’s a bit cumbersome but that is expected due to size.

Bonne reliure, qualité d'impression, belles illustration pour un prix très correct vu le nombre de pages.

I love the Earthsea series and this is a beautiful book. I needed Daughter of Odren and wanted this book anyway, even though that's just a short story. First time I got it the pages were all folded in because the delivery driver clearly checked to see if it was valuable (it's very weighty!) but I sent it back and got a mint copy. Lovely book.

Kargo cok hizli ve hatasiz urun geldi. Baski kalitesi cok iyi. Cilt ve sayfa kalitesi tatmin edici.

I'm a bibliophile. I love books, actual books, hardback books, the look of them, the feel of them in the hand, the solidity and weight of them, even their smell, of ink and paper, cloth, thread and glue. I recently purchased Ursula K. Le Guin's The Books of Earthsea, Complete Illustrated Edition, an omnibus that contains all the novels of Earthsea (six in all), all the short stories, including one never before published, her Oxford Lecture on Earthsea from 1992, a new foreword and afterwords in her own voice, all beautifully illustrated by Charles Vess. My heart is happy. It's a big, thick, heavy book, beautifully bound in red cloth with gold lettering, encased in a dust jacket showing dragons of several colors circling a little boat navigating a rough, rock-strewn sea. People used to handling paperbacks and Kindles and similar devices will no doubt find it unwieldy, heavy and cumbersome. For fellow bibliophiles, however, these are all plusses. The story is one that has captivated me since I was a small child, and it has held up well over the years. I find it just as enchanting now as I did way back then, when I first read A Wizard of Earthsea in the first grade. For Ms. Le Guin, who died in 2018, this edition, collected, annotated and illustrated to her specifications, was her swan song, a worthy product of a worthy Maker whom the world will not see the likes of again. Thank you, Ms. Le Guin, for this and all the stories you've told to a lonely, peculiar child for all these years.