[A Game of Thrones]. A Song of Ice and Fire

New York, Bantam Books, (September) 1996, (February) 1999, November (2000), November (2005) and 2011.
5 volumes (160 x 240 mm) of 694, 761, 973, 753 and 1016 pp. Publisher’s illustrated boards and dustjacket, in slipcase

First editions, first printings.

Complete series, consisting of A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons, in original dust jackets illustrated by Tom Hallman (vol. 1), Stephen Youll (vol. 2 to 4) and Larry Rostant (vol. 5) – later standardized and redone for later editions.

All volumes are signed by Georges R. R. Martin.

We apologize for the imperfect translation generated by Deepl for the purposes of the show.

Born in 1948 in Bayonne, France (watch out, the one in New Jersey!), the “American Tolkien” as he is known today, began writing a cycle of fantasy novels in the early 1990s, which he called A Song of Ice and Fire: the first volume, A Game of Thrones, was published in 1996; it was followed by four other volumes, published between 1999 and 2011.

The saga’s fame began as soon as it was published: not only did A Games of Thrones win two of the most important prizes in fantasy literature in 1997, the Locus Prize and the World Fantasy Award, but the two volumes that followed repeated the feat for the Locus Prize. Even Harry Potter didn’t fare any better – only winning The Prisoner of Azkaban.

In January 2007, the HBO television network acquired the adaptation rights, with episodes airing from April 2011, when the final opus was published. George R. R. Martin is involved in its production, writing the script for an episode in each of the first four seasons, which has seen unprecedented success for a TV series of this type, with critics calling A Song of Ice and Fire “one of the best fantasy series ever written” (Denver Post). Translated into over forty languages, it went on to sell over 90 million copies before the films, which only increased these figures exponentially.