Tenth Anniversary Collector's Set. 3 vols., complete. Large 8vos. Pp. 403, [15] + 332, [15] + 526, [14]. Dark blue/red/amber cloth boards, lettered in silver to spine; pictorial endpapers. Illus. appendices and endpapers designed and illustrated by Ian Beck. Integral silk bookmarkers. With dust-jackets, housed in matching slipcases, and still in the publisher's original shrink wraps. 1/1000 copies each, signed and numbered by Author to title page. The Tenth Anniversary Edition of the "Dark Materials" trilogy, comprising Northern Lights (1995), The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000).
The tale of Lyra Belacqua, whose self-appointed task is to arrest the collapse of the fabric of the universe. 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.
Author has won the CILIP Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the Children's Book of the Year at the British Book Awards, the Whitbread Book of the Year, and the Astrid Lindgren Award. A film adaptation of the first book in the series under its American title The Golden Compass was released in 2007.
"Pullman has created the last great fantasy masterpiece of the twentieth century. An astounding achievement." –The Cincinnati Enquirer