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Philip Pullman. Northern Lights. [London:] Scholastic Press, [2005]....
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Description
Tenth Anniversary Edition, Signed
Philip Pullman. Northern Lights. [London:] Scholastic Press, [2005].Tenth Anniversary edition. Octavo. 403 pages. Illustrated Appendix.
Dark blue cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. Board edges and spine ends very lightly worn, corners are sharp and firm. Heavy crease to rear board and spine tail, bumping to verso board edge. Some light soiling of rear board. Pictorial endpapers. Pullman's signed bookplate has been glued to the half title, both of which exhibit significant soiling and rumpling. Title page is also smudged and smeared; remaining textblock is fine with satin ribbon page market intact. Dust jacket bears a few heavy creases at upper edge and at lower portion of spine. Sticker reading "Signed Copy" has been removed from another book and affixed to dust jacket.
Northern Lights, the first book of Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, won the Carnegie Medal for children's fiction in the United Kingdom in 1995; in 2007 it was selected by Carnegie Medal judges as one of the ten most important children's novels of the past 70 years. This stunning tale also netted the Guardian Children's fiction Award and the Smarties Prize.
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2008 June Grand Format Books & Manuscripts Auction #683 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
June, 2008
4th-5th
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