Richard Cowper — The Road to Corlay

London, Victor Gollancz, 1978. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Richard Cowper's exciting science fiction novel, the first novel in a series, in the iconic original yellow Gollancz dust wrapper. Set a thousand years into the future, Britain has become seven Kingdoms as a result of rising sea levels, technology is primitive and the Church rules. It follows an attempt to smuggle two relics to a French monastery, as well as a twentieth century neurological experiment.This work was the sequel to the short story 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn', which serves as a prologue. 'The Road to Corlay' was then followed by 'A Dream of Kinship' and 'A Tapestry of Time' as the White Bird of Kinship series.Written by John Middleton Murry (1926-2002), an English writer who published under the pseudonyms Colin Murry and Richard Cowper.Complete in a yellow Gollancz dust wrapper, which is unclipped.A first edition.Imaginative, thrilling and filled with emotion, this is amongst Cowper's most brilliant writings. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart, with just a touch of bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Dust wrapper is a little sunned to the spine, which has the slightest bumping at the head and tail, but is otherwise in excellent condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.