The Iron Tree. Book One of The Crowthistle Chronicles.

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [xiv], 425. Mossy green cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine; cream endpapers. Glossary. Maps by Elizabeth Alger. Jacket illustration by Julek Heller.

Publisher's bumf tipped in. Stamped "Proof/Damaged" to f.f.e.p., else Fine.

The first of four volumes in the Crowthistle Chronicles. Jarred leaves his sun-scorched village to explore the world and seek out news of his long-perished father. A sword and sorcery fantasy epic. "Endowing her characters with courtly yet bucolic diction, almost Elizabethan, and casting her narrative in clean yet poetic prose, Dart-Thornton conjures up her world of Tir and its rituals and beliefs in the luminous yet hard-edged manner of Jack Vance or Mary Gentle." –The Washington Post