His Dark Materials. Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass.

First edition thus. Large 8vo. Pp. [viii], 1016. Black cloth, lettered in gilt to spine; red-brick endpapers. Sewn-in gold ribbon marker. Jacket illustration by David Scutt (priced £25.00 to front flap). Loosely laid in is the scarce 'Letter of Acknowledgement'. The omnibus edition of the "Dark Materials" trilogy, collecting Northern Lights (1995), The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000).

A square, tight copy, in a complete, bright dust wrapper in a protective sleeve, stored safely since publication.

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