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His Dark Materials III. The Amber Spyglass.

Signed tenth anniversary edition of Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass

Philip PullmanSir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman

Tenth Anniversary Collector's Edition. Large 8vo. Pp. 526, [14]. Amber cloth boards, lettered in silver to spine; pictorial endpapers. Illus. appendices and endpapers designed and illustrated by Ian Beck. Integral silk bookmarker. With dust-jacket, housed in a matching slipcase, and still in the publisher's original shrink wrap. 1/1000 copies, signed and numbered by Author to title page. The final volume in the Tenth Anniversary Collector's Edition of the "Dark Materials" trilogy, originally published in 2000, and issued concurrently with the preceding volumes, Northern Lights and The Subtle Knife.
Named Children's Book of the Year at the 2001 British Book Awards. Winner of the 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year Award, the first children's book to be so honoured. Longlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize. Ranked sixth in The Guardian's 2019 list of 'The 100 best books of the 21st century'.
The adventures of Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, wanderers of parallel universes, where human souls take the form of animal companions called dæmons. An inverted retelling of John Milton's epic Paradise Lost, with Pullman commending humanity for what Milton saw as its most tragic failing, original sin. Pullman has been attacked by the right for his criticism of dogma in organised religion, although more moderate men of the cloth such as the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, have argued that Pullman's works should instead be included in religious education.
The trilogy has been adapted for the stage by Nicholas Wright, while a film adaptation of the first in the series under its American title The Golden Compass was released by New Line Cinema in 2007. It featured Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Ian McKellen, Derek Jacobi, and Christopher Lee in principal roles.
"Pullman has created the last great fantasy masterpiece of the twentieth century. An astounding achievement." The Cincinnati Enquirer
special feature
signed
format
hardback, limited edition
publisher
Scholastic Children's Books
published in
London
publication year
2005
ISBN
0439950481
genre
fantasy
language
English
binding style
cloth
binding state
original binding
condition  . . .
mint
of jacket
mint
of slipcase
mint
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