Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass. A set of flat-signed UK first / first thus of the 10th anniversary issue of the Dark Materials Trilogy.

Pullman, Philip

ISBN 10: 0439954614 / ISBN 13: 9780439954617

Published by Scholastic Press, 2005

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Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass. A set of flat-signed UK first / first thus of the 10th anniversary issue of the Dark Materials Trilogy. All in Near Fine / Near Fine condition. Northern Lights (ISBN 0439954614) 10th Anniversary edition, first printing (Scholastic, 2005), flatsigned to title page. Near Fine / Near Fine condition with just a minor hint of general shelfwear. Protected dustwrapper The Subtle Knife (ISBN 0439954622) 10th Anniversary edition, first printing (Scholastic, 2005), flatsigned to title page. Near Fine / Near Fine condition with minor pushing to spine top and base and a hint of general shelfwear. Protected dustwrapper The Amber Spyglass (ISBN 0439954630) 10th Anniversary edition, first printing (Scholastic, 2005), flatsigned to title page. Near Fine / Near Fine condition with minor pushing to spine top and base and a hint of general shelfwear. Protected dustwrapper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass. A set of flat-signed UK first / first thus of the 10th anniversary issue of the Dark Materials Trilogy.
• Publisher: Scholastic Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0439954614
• ISBN 13: 9780439954617
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

When NORTHERN LIGHTS was published in 1995, the adventures of Lyra and her daemon was immediately recognised as a masterpiece of children's fiction. It won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Fiction Award, and has gone on to sell in its millions to children and adult readers across the world.

Review

Lyra's life is already sufficiently interesting for a novel before she eavesdrops on a presentation by her uncle Lord Asriel to his colleagues in the Jordan College faculty, Oxford. The college, famed for its leadership in experimental theology, is funding Lord Asriel's research into the heretical possibility of the existence of worlds unlike Lyra's own, where everyone is born with a familiar animal companion, magic of a kind works, the Tartars are threatening to overrun Muscovy, and the Pope is a puritanical Protestant. Set in an England familiar and strange, Philip Pullman's lively, taut story is a must-read and re-read for fantasy lovers of all ages. The world-building is outstanding, from the subtle hints of the 1898 Tokay to odd quirks of language to the panserbjorne, while determined, clever Lyra is strongly reminiscent of Joan Aiken's Dido Twite.