THE OUTLANDISH COMPANION: The First Companion to the Outlander Series Covering OUTLANDER, DRAGONFLY IN AMBER, VOYAGER, and DRUMS OF AUTUMN. by Diana Gabaldon New York: Delacorte Press, [2015]. First revised and updated edition, first printing. "First edition" statement and first printing number code sequence 1 through 9 to the copyright page, 2015 date printed to the jacket's rear inner flap. Numerous illustrations, photographs, and family trees throughout, and with fourteen striking black-and-white full-page photo-plates from the TV series to the rear. An in-depth compendium, guide, and reference in which Gabaldon explains time travel, 18th-century medicine and magic, annotates a bibliography, describes all the characters and their family trees with genealogical notes, gives a full synopsis of each of the four books, offers horoscopes, a descriptive glossary, behind-the scenes info on the making of the TV series, and more. Tiny tear to the lower spine end, else near fine in black over slate-gray boards with gilt embossed titles and decoration to the spine, black-and-white headband and tail-band, map end-papers illustrated by James Sinclair; in a near fine dust jacket with a half-inch hair-line tear to the lower edge of the front panel; original $40.00 price still intact to the front inner flap. Large royal octavo; 577 pages; plus 14 full-page promotional photos from the television series; plus prologue; plus preliminary pages. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!