Most of the illustrations are black and white, though there’s a color plate at the beginning of each book in this volume. Vess’ drawings bring the entire book to life for me in a new way, which is saying something as these books live in my head. This brick of a book contains not only those first four books (my favorite is either A Wizard of Earthsea or The Farthest Shore, whichever I’ve reread most recently) plus Tales from Earthsea and The Other Wind, a few other related stories, and the text of a lecture Le Guin gave in 1992. I have a British paperback that contains the first four Earthsea novels that’s tattered from both my wife and I rereading it, but we both love it so much we’ll never throw it away. The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition by Ursula K.
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