Just a hint of spine slant still tightly bound. Publisher's original price of 75 cents at top of spine/front cover. Spine has some creasing from handling, but Title is still fully legible.
In essence, this is the tale of Silverlock's wanderings in the Commonwealth, the land of immortal heroes real and imagined, in search of his true destiny. The white back cover is somewhat shelf-worn. In this richly picaresque story of a modern man's fruitful adventurings in legendary realms of gold, John Myers Myers has presented a glowing tapestry of real excitement and meaning. Wraps have a little edge-wear in places, but are still bright & colorful. End-papers have darkened with age, and pages of book are also browning. Illustrated w/ B&W front cover + 2-page Map Of Commonwealth. Skip to main content Faculty Sampling Education & Business Solutions Search Store by ISBN, Title, or Author Search. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. įront cover by Jack Gaughan Frontis & Map of the Commonwealth by the Author.īlue pictorial wraps, yellow page edges, yellow/white letters. Silverlock is written by John Myers Myers and published by Wildside Press. Myers' non-fiction works included a history of the Alamo, the first biography of Doc Holliday, a study of the vigilante movement in San Francisco, and a well-researched biography of Hugh Glass, an early American fur trapper and frontiersman.Īce Science Fiction Classics, #A-8.
His last book, 'The Moon's Fire-Eating Daughter' (1981), was advertised as a sequel to 'Silverlock'. The novel's settings and characters, other than the protagonist, are drawn entirely from numerous other works of literature, such as the 'Odyssey' and 'Don Quixote'. Myers' best-known work is the literary fantasy novel 'Silverlock', first published in 1949, which was reprinted in 1966 by Ace Books, with forewords and accolades from Poul Anderson, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. His first book, 'The Harp and the Blade' (1941), was a historical novel set in tenth-century France. Myers published seventeen books, ranging from fantasy and historical fiction of the American Old West to epic poetry and histories of the West. John Myers Myers (Janu– October 30, 1988) was an American writer, newspaperman & scholar who is best known for the fantasy novel 'Silverlock'.