Tor, New York, 1999, 1^st/1^st.  ISBN 0-312-86410-8.  Hard cover, 351 pages.  Spine ends lightly bumped, small drip spot on top page block; tight binding with headbands.  Dust jacket with price intact shows some rubs and light scratches; soil spot on verso of upper rear panel.  Book interior clean and unmarked.  ‘The star systems of the Mageworlds are linked by magic.  Only when trained Mages have found a Way to a new world can the great colonizing and trading starships follow.  But beyond the farthest worlds is the great gap, beyond which, hint the legends, lie vast, rich human worlds long lost to the Mages’ trade.  Now the most powerful Mage-circle ever is determined to walk to those worlds, to reunite humanity’s sundered branches and make a fortune in the process.  And young Arekhon sus-Khalgath, scion of the most powerful of the clans of starship builders, has left his inheritance to join them.  But immense forces are arrayed against them.  Blood will be spilled, and dynasties thrown down, before the worlds of mankind are again united.  For the first time in living memory, the Mages will go to war – with themselves.’ (from front flap)