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Title: The Folk of the Air Title Record # 1924
Author: Peter S. Beagle
Date: 1986-09-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Sam Farrell
Language: English
Synopsis: From the flaps of the Del Rey first edition: "When Farrell returned to Avicenna after years away, he found his oldest friend Ben living with an unattractive older woman named Sia. Ben and Farrell's girlfriend, Julie were also mixed up with the League of Archaic Pleasures - a group that playacted the events and manners of medieval chivalry, sometimes too seriously. Nothing was quite as it seemed. Sia's ancient house developed rooms that impossibly appeared and disappeared. Apparently helpless, Sia still had enormous powers that no human could defy when she chose to exert her will. And some members of the League were not playacting - they were the medieval characters they portrayed. Even mild-mannered Ben was sometimes possessed by a Ninth Century viking, driven to madness by the modern world he could not understand. Attending a League revel with Julie, Farrell was amused by the claim of a fifteen-year-old Aiffe that she was a witch. But later he saw her, attempting to summon a demon, conjure out of the air the form of Nicholas Bonner, who had been sent to limbo five centuries before! With Bonner's skills added to Aiffe's talents, the pair soon made chaos of the League's mock war. But Bonner's real goal was the defeat of Sia, with whom he seemed to have a mysterious connection. Gradually, Farrell realized that Bonner represented a growing evil such as the Twentieth Century had never known. Only Sia's power's stood against it. But Sia had retreated into a room that could not exist, hiding in illusion."
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Year Language Title
1988Translated by Dirk van Gunsteren
German Das Volk der Lüfte

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Folk of the Air 1986-09-00 Peter S. Beagle Del Rey / Ballantine 0-345-33782-4
$16.95?$: US dollar
330
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel Barclay Shaw Checkmark
The Folk of the Air 1987-09-00 Peter S. Beagle Headline 0-7472-0052-1
£10.95?£: UK pound
336
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel  
The Folk of the Air 1987-09-00 Peter S. Beagle Del Rey / Ballantine / SFBC 11279
$5.50?$: US dollar
279
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel Barclay Shaw  
The Folk of the Air 1987-09-00 Peter S. Beagle Headline 0-7472-3068-4
£4.95?£: UK pound
330
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
novel  
Das Volk der Lüfte 1988-00-00 Peter S. Beagle Klett-Cotta (Hobbit Presse) 3-608-95528-3
DM 36.00?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
401
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel  
The Folk of the Air 1988-01-00 Peter S. Beagle Del Rey / Ballantine 0-345-34699-8
$4.50?$: US dollar
375
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
novel Romas Checkmark
The Folk of the Air 1988-01-00 Peter S. Beagle Del Rey / Ballantine 0-345-34699-8
C$5.95?C$: Canadian dollar
375
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
novel Romas Checkmark
The Folk of the Air 1988-08-00 Peter S. Beagle Headline 0-7472-3138-9
£2.99?£: UK pound
330
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
novel  
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