Cart & Cwidder

JONES, Diana Wynne.Cart & Cwidder. NY: Atheneum, 1977. 12mo, [vi] 193pp. Light blue paper wrappers with cover printed in black. A near fine copy in an early copy of the dust jacket.

Uncorrected proof. The first title in the Dalemark Quartet. Clennen and his children, Moril, Dragner, and Brid, travelling musicians in the land of Dalemark, allows a young stranger to journey with them. As war between North and South brews, Moril discovers that the ancient Cwidder he has labored to master could sound a note no one has imagined could exist outside the realms of legend and mythology.