Tersias

Uncorrected Proof. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 320. Double pictorial wraps with incised key motif to upper cover. With a double-page map and chapter header illustrations by John Freeman. A signed, slipcased edition, limited to 1,000 copies was published subsequently.

Stamped "Proof/Damaged" to fore-edge and upper pastedown, else Fine.

A children's fantasy novel about Magnus Malachi, a charlatan magician, who is closely guarding his latest moneyspinner – Tersias, a blind boy oracle. Author's third book – a sequel to his breakthrough 2003 novel Shadowmancer and his subsequent Wormwood (2004). "[A] vivid tale of sorcery and violence". –The Observer