Books published by publisher Ballantine Del Rey

Book Club edition, 1982, a gently-read, almost like-new, 469-page hardcover, with a dust jacket that is slightly rubbed at the spine end, spine, and outer corners, also with 1/2" closed tear at the top spine end and small chipping at the spine, from DEL REY. By Terry Brooks. An Epic Fantasky. Illustrated by Darrell K. Sweet. This is the second volume in the Shannara series.

SKYJACKED!One minute Kip Russell is walking around his own backyard, testing out an old space suit and dreaming about going to the moon–the next he is the captive of a space pirate and on his way to the very place he had been dreaming of. At first, the events are so unreal he thinks he might be having a nightmare . . . but when he discovers other prisoners aboard the spaceship he knows the ordeal is all too real. Kip and his fellow abductees, the daughter of a world-renowned scientist and a beautiful creature from an alien planet, have been skyjacked by a monstrous extraterrestrial who is flying them to the moon–on a journey toward a fate worse than death. . . .Have Space Suit–Will Travel is the newest addition to the Del Rey Imagine program, which offers the best in classic fantasy and science fiction for readers 12 and up.

When a half-drowned elf is found floating in the seas of the Blue Divide, an old mystery resurfaces. Thirty years ago, an elven prince led an expedition in search of a legendary magic said to be more powerful than any in the world. Of all those who set out on that ill-fated voyage, not one has ever returned. Until now, The rescued elf carries a map covered with mysterious symbols- and Walker Boh, the last of the Druids, has the skill to decipher them. But someone else understands the map's significance: the Ilse Witch, a ruthless young woman who wields a magic as potent as his own. She will stop at nothing to possess the map- and the magic it leads to. Thus begins the first volume of a dazzling new adventurein one of the most popular fantasy series of our time

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