A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire Book 1 (Song of Ice and Fire, 1)

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Working with Martin and his assistant, Raya Golden, Groell picked eight “iconic scenes from the book”—the discovery of the wolf pups, Jaime and Cersei together, and so on—to reproduce in color. Ice had formed in its shaggy grey fur, and the faint smell of corruption clung to it like a woman's perfume. The breath of man and horse mingled, steaming, in the cold morning air as his lord father had the man cut down from the wall and dragged before them. Groell said that while the artist drew the scene with Ned clutching the sword right-handed, the effect was much more dramatic when the image was flipped.

R. Martin’s fantasy epic has won millions of fans worldwide, and these Folio editions – described by the author as ‘masterpieces of the bookmaker’ art’– are packed full of details that devoted readers will find irresistible.Joffrey, of House Lannister, sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the land of the Seven Kingdoms. The riders picked their way carefully through the drifts, groping for solid footing on the hidden, uneven ground. Robb and Jon sat tall and still on their horses, with Bran between them on his pony, trying to seem older than seven, trying to pretend that he'd seen all this before. A dazzling illustrated edition of the book that started it all—for readers of A Song of Ice and Fire and fans of HBO’sGame of Thrones. He had a grim cast to his grey eyes this day, and he seemed not at all the man who would sit before the fire in the evening and talk softly of the age of heroes and the children of the forest.

In 2016, Bantam published a A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition with a hard cover, a foreword by John Hodgman, maps by Jeffrey L. You will notice that the Harper cover is shown second even though it is an exact title match while the Bantam "original" edition is listed shown first. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still left in the world. A dazzling illustrated edition of the book that started it all—for readers of A Song of Ice and Fire and fans of HBO’s Game of Thrones. R. Martin’s landmark saga continues with this beautifully illustrated special edition of the third book in the series.

Jon was slender where Robb was muscular, dark where Robb was fair, graceful and quick where his half brother was strong and fast.

He was big and broad and growing every day, with his mother's coloring, the fair skin, red-brown hair, and blue eyes of the Tullys of Riverrun. Bran rode with his brothers, well ahead of the main party, his pony struggling hard to keep up with their horses.To help keep track of the intricate plotlines, this edition comes complete with updated and expanded genealogies. Beyond that the Bantam edition shows a preview with some of the illustrations, while the Harper edition preview reverts back to a standard preview. This spectacular set includes a new colour map of The Known World, folding out to reveal the full splendour of George R. Groell wound up recycling two color images—both having to do with Daenerys and her dragons—but commissioned six new full-color, full-page plates, including this Magali Villeneuve painting of Ned Stark—looking nothing like HBO fans might imagine—meeting his doom.