The Torin Trilogy (The Luck of Brin's Five, The Nearest Fire, and The Tapestry Warriors)

First Editions, First Printings (Antheneum, New York, 1977, 1980, 1983). The SciFi, awarding-winning classic, The Torin Trilogy by Australian author Cherry Wilder. Very rare together; the only one on the market at present. A fine set, each in a fine dust jackets with stunning cover art by James and Ruth McCrea. As new. Brin's Five was the 1978 winner of the Ditmar Award for Best Australian Science Fiction Novel. A lovely collectors set.   

New Zealand born author Cherry Wilder (b. 1930 - d. 2002) was a prolific writer of science fiction and fantasy novels and short fiction in the last quarter of the 20th century. Indeed, her fiction novels and shorter works range well beyond epic fantasy and hard science fiction to include dark fantasy, horror and the weird, as well as mysteries and thrillers.

Her award winning stories often challenged rigid social mores of the day. Wilder is best-known for her science fiction first-contact "Torin Trilogy" comprising of The Luck of Brin's Five, The Nearest Fire, and The Tapestry Warriors, and also for the "Rulers of Hylor Series," a high fantasy work comprised of A Princess of the Chameln, Yorath the Wolf, The Summer's King, and The Wanderer. In the Torin Trilogy, Wilder used local New Zealand Maori folklore, mythology, and legends to inform the background for the universe.

James and Ruth McCrea were renowned artists and children's illustrators, having been commissioned by all the major publishing houses of their day. Notably, the McCrea's created the cover art for Scribner's highly regarded reprints of it's first 21 published titles from the first half of the 20th Century, including numerous editions Hemingway and Greene classics. 

The Luck of Brin's Five (1977), fine in a fine pictorial dust jacket. Fine in publisher's original orange boards with gilt lettering on spine. Internally fine; clean, bright and unmarred. Octavo. 230 pp.  

The Nearest Fire (1980), fine in a fine pictorial dust jacket. Fine in publisher's original green boards with gilt lettering on spine. Internally fine; clean, bright and unmarred. Octavo. 226 pp.

The Tapestry of Warriors (1983), fine in a fine pictorial dust jacket. Fine in publisher's original ______ boards with gilt lettering on spine. Internally fine; clean, bright and unmarred. Octavo. ___ pp.