BROOKS, TERRY (b.1944). The Sword of Shannara. New York: Random House, 1977. 8vo. Map frontispiece, folding color plate, numerous full-page illustrations. (Very scant spotting on top edge.) Publisher's cloth-backed boards, original printed dust jacket (slight creases at head and foot of spine, short 3 mm. tear at foot of rear panel, verso slightly browned particularly at extremities). FIRST EDITION. A FINE COPY of the first book of the Original Shannara Trilogy, which also includes The Elfstones of Shannara and The Wishsong of Shannara. Brooks cites Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings as a primary influence on his work.