The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One) (Daw Book Collectors No. 1396)

New York: Daw Books, Inc, 2007. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x2x9. Donato (jacket art). First edition, first printing, in red-haired man jacket variant. Corners very lightly bruised, otherwise an excellent copy. 2007 Hard Cover. 661, [1] pp. 8vo. Author's first novel, for which Rothfuss won the Quill Award. The second book in The Kingkiller Chronicles, The Wise Man's Fear, made it to the top of the bestsellers list, and inspired a tabletop game called Tak. Rothfuss is known in the tabletop gaming community for his appearances on Penny Arcade, Critical Role, and Tabletop. "Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically (truncated) gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen.The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king form a gripping coming-of-age story unrivaled in recent literature. A high-action story written with a poet's hand, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that will transport readers into the body and mind of a wizard. (Inventory #: 2340408)