His Dark Materials. Northern Lights.

Tenth Anniversary Collector's Edition. Large 8vo. Pp. 403, [15]. Dark blue 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 first volume in the Tenth Anniversary Collector's Edition of the "Dark Materials" trilogy, originally published in 1995, issued concurrently with The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass.

Re-titled The Golden Compass for its 1996 U.S. release by Alfred A. Knopf. Winner of the 1995 Carnegie Medal and the all-time "Carnegie of Carnegies" in 2007. Joint winner of The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1996.

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