THE KINGDOM DEVERRY CYCLE - FIRST QUARTET. 1. DAGGERSPELL 2. DARKSPELL. 3. THE BRISTLING WOOD. 4. THE DRAGON REVENANT. 4 VOLUME SET. by Kerr, Katharine

New York: Bantam / Del Rey/Ballantine 4 volume set, 6 7/8" H. 1. Daggerspell - 461 pp, Bantam, 1993 revised edition, first printing, ISBN 0553565214. "Even as a young girl, Jill was a favorite of the magical, mysterious Wildfolk, who appeared to her from their invisible realm. Little did she know her extraordinary friends represented but a glimpse of a forgotten past and a fateful future. Four hundred years - and many lifetimes - ago, one selfish young lord caused the death of two innocent lovers. Then and there he vowed never to rest until he'd righted that wrong - and laid the foundation for the lives of Jill and all those whom she would hold dear: her father, the mercenary soldier Cullyn; the exiled berserker Rhodry Maelwaedd; and the ancient and powerful herbman Nevyn, all bound in a struggle against darkness - and a quest to fulfill the destinies determined centuries ago." 2. Darkspell - 366 pp, Del Rey, 1989 1st printing, ISBN 0345344316. "For four hundred years, Nevyn, the deathless master of dweomer magic, had traveled the kingdom of Deverry, searching for the souls of those he had wronged long ago. But time and again those souls were reborn into the twisted fate to which he had doomed them - and time and again, he found them too late. Then suddenly his luck changed, and he found the soul now born as Jill before the pattern trapped her again. But the lords of Dark Dweomer had their own plans for Jill and her warrior-lover Rhodry. And when the two young people rode into exile, Nevyn had to use all his powers and cunning to guard them - while there was still time to unravel their knotted destinies." 3. The Bristling Wood - 357 pp + Author's Note + Preview, Bantam, 1990 first printing, ISBN 0553285815. "Nevyn discovers that the Dark Council has been quietly interfering with the already tangled politics of war-torn Eldidd. Their evil webs are nearly spun before Nevyn, with all the power at his command, even realizes there's a war of magic destroying his world." 4. The Dragon Revenant - 401 pp + Preview, Bantam, 1991 first printing, ISBN 0553289098. "For years the provinces of Deverry have been in turmoil; now the conflict escalates with the kidnapping of Rhodry Maelwaedd, heir to the throne of Averwyn. Intent on rescuing him, his beloved Jill and the elven wizard Salamander infiltrate the distant land of Bardek, where he is held captive. Tied to Deverry by obligation and circumstance, Nevyn begins to see that all the kingdom's problems can be traced back to a single source: a master of dark magics, backed by a network of evil that stretches across the sea. Now Nevyn understands that he too is being lured away to Bardek - and into a subtle, deadly trap designed especially for him." Interiors - light to moderate browning to inside of the covers and to page margins (heavy on the inside of front cover of book 4), otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exteriors - moderate browning to the edges of the text blocks, three books have a very small number stamp on the bottom of the text block, light lean to the spines, light creases on the spine of three books, book 2 has a corner crease on the rear cover, book 4 has three tiny corner creases on the covers.. Not Signed. Mass Market Paperbacks. Good+. Illus. by Keith Parkinson (1, 3, 4) & Rowend Morrill (2).