The Dark Is Rising (A Margaret K. McElderry Book)
Cooper, Susan; Cober, Alan E. (Illustrator)
Language: English
Published by Atheneum, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1977
Series: Book 2 of 5 - The Dark Is Rising
- Hardcover
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Seller: Gargoyle Books, IOBA, La Mesa, CA, U.S.A.Gargoyle Books, IOBA
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The very first book in the author's 5-book "The Dark Is Rising" series, a YA fantasy series featuring 11-tyear-old Will Stanton of Buckinghamshire, who has just discovered he is one of the immortal Old Ones.servants of the Light who battle to keep the world free. In 216 pages, with pen-and-ink illustrations throughout & stunning DJ cover art both back & front by Alan E. Cober. A 1974 Newbery Honor winner, orig. published in 1973, this is the 9th printing of that FIRST EDITION from June 1977. Hardcover 8vo has matte black cloth-covered boards lettered in bright copper to spine, blindstamped title to front board. It is an EX-LIBRARY copy, with usual stamps & markings to endpapers, in front matter, & magic markered out on top & bottom outside page edges. Small remainder mark to bottom such edges as well. Despite this, it is in VG+ condition: exceptionally clean, binding strong & straight, pages creamy white & unmarked, corners crisp. The price-clipped is Near Fine, with just a tad of wear along top edge of back cover; else bright & clean & nearly flawless & protected in new clear mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive from us, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, Weekends & holidays ship very next business day.…
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- Title
- The Dark Is Rising (A Margaret K. McElderry Book)
- Author
- Cooper, Susan; Cober, Alan E. (Illustrator)
- Publisher
- Atheneum, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 1977
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0689303173
- ISBN 13
- 9780689303173
- Illustrator
- Cober, Alan E.
- Edition
- First Edition Later Printing
- Series
- Book 2 of 5: The Dark Is Rising
- Seller catalogs
- Children-Young Adult (YA)::Collectible Series, Children-Young Adult (YA)::Illustrated & Picture Books, Science Fiction-Fantasy
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About the Author
Susan Cooper is one of our foremost children's authors; her classic five-book fantasy sequence The Dark Is Rising has sold millions of copies worldwide. Her many books have won the Newbery Medal, a Newbery Honor, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and been shortlisted five times for the Carnegie Medal. She combines fantasy with history in Victory (a Washington Post Top Ten for Children novel), King of Shadows and Ghost Hawk, and her magical The Boggart and the Monster, second in a trilogy, won the Scottish Arts Council's Children's Book Award. Susan Cooper lives on a saltmarsh island in Massachusetts, and you can visit her online at TheLostLand.com.
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