

For its release, Terry plans to visit Dragon*Con 2011 as Literary Guest of Honor as well as tour the New England area of the United States where he has not been in more than a decade. Terry has finished writing the sequel to Bearers of the Black Staff, titled The Measure of the Magic. It is the continuation of the Genesis of Shannara trilogy and is set 500 years after the events in The Gypsy Morph. Events earers of the Black Staff, Book One of the Legends of Shannara duology, is now published and in fine bookstores everywhere.One can tell it is one of these rare copies if they open the book and look at the publishing information page where the number line 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 (old-style Ballantine first edition number line) and a stated First Edition exist at the bottom of the page. They printed 3500 first edition/first printing hardcover copies. One of the organizations decided it wanted to honor Terry and The Sword of Shannara, but to do so the book had to be in a hardcover format. It wasn’t released as a hardcover at first, but as it climbed and stayed on the New York Times bestselling paperback list, it caught the attention of many book organizations and book clubs. Originally, The Sword of Shannara was published in 1977 in a large, softcover, trade paperack edition. The rarity of these three volumes is immense and it is due to their initial printing numbers.


