The Hero and the Crown by Robin Mckinley [FIRST EDITION] 1984 • Greenwillow Books

The Hero and the Crown by Robin Mckinley [DAMAR #2]

FIRST EDITION [1984] GREENWILLOW BOOKS

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.

Ex-library copy, custom refurbished to the best of our ability. 

Dust jacket is pristine, clean sharp and looks good as new.  Now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector. 

Book has tape remainder marks on boards; and a small strip of sticker ghosting on front endpaper.  Actual pages appear immaculate and unread, with some inevitable tanning.  Reads good as new. 

Robin McKinley's mesmerizing history of Damar is the stuff that legends are made of. The Hero and the Crown is a dazzling "prequel" to The Blue Sword.

Aerin is the only child of the king of Damar, and should be his rightful heir. But she is also the daughter of a witchwoman of the North, who died when she was born, and the Damarians cannot trust her.

But Aerin's destiny is greater than her father's people know, for it leads her to battle with Maur, the Black Dragon, and into the wilder Damarian Hills, where she meets the wizard Luthe. It is he who at last tells her the truth about her mother, and he also gives over to her hand the Blue Sword, Gonturan. But such gifts as these bear a great price, a price Aerin only begins to realize when she faces the evil mage, Agsded, who has seized the Hero's Crown, greatest treasure and secret strength of Damar.