title: The Dragonriders of Pern: Dragonflight; Dragonquest; The White Dragon
author:  Anne McCaffrey 
description: This came from a collection of Sci-Fi books, all carefully preserved and none had any evidence of having been read. Great gift for a Sci-Fi collector. Jacket illustration by Ron Dilg."The first humans to settle on Pern barely noticed a distant planet in the same system; their descendants couldn't afford such an oversight. For the orbit of that Red Star swept it close to Pern at perihelion - and when that happened, deadly silver Threads would fall through the skies of Pern, mindlessly searing all they touched. To combat these invasions, the Pernese bred huge, sensitive flying beast that could teleport..."
zlib_text: THE
  DRAGONRIDERS
  OF
  PERN
  DRAGONFLIGHT
  DRAGONQUEST
  THE WHITE DRAGON
  Anne McCaffrey
  A Del Rey Book
  BALLANTINE BOOKS • NEW YORK
  
  CONTENTS
  Title Page
  Prologue
  Map
  VOLUME I: DRAGONFLIGHT
  Dedicatory Note
  PART I  Weyr Search
  PART II  Dragonflight
  PART III  Dust Fall
  PART IV  The Cold Between
  VOLUME II: DRAGONQUEST
  Dedication
  I  Morning at Mastercrafthall, Fort Hold / Several  Afternoons Later at Benden Weyr / Midmorning
  (Telgar Time) at Mastersmithcrafthall, Telgar Hold
  II  Evening (Fort Weyr Time). Meeting of the Weyrleaders at Fort Weyr
  III  Morning over Lemos Hold
  IV  Midday at Southern Weyr
  V  Midmorning at Ruatha Hold / Early Evening at Benden Weyr
  VI  Midmorning at Southern Weyr / Early Morning at Nabol Hold: Next Day
  VII  Midmorning at Benden Weyr / Early Morning at the Mastersmithcrafthall, Telgar Hold
  VIII  Midmorning at Southern Weyr
  IX  Afternoon at Southern Weyr: Same Day
  X  Early Morning in Harpercrafthall at Fort Hold / Afternoon at Telgar Hold
  XI  Early Morning at Benden Weyr
  X