Lyra's Oxford

First edition. Sm. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 49, [6]. Publisher's crimson cloth with pictorial onlay to front, black titling to spine, black embossed map and barcode sticker to lower board; grey endpapers. In-text b/w wood engravings by John Lawrence. Fold-out "Globetrotter" map bound-in to p. 16, with five pages of ephemera to rear. Without dustjacket, as issued.

Signed by Author to title page.

A celebration of his heroine's fictional landscape, Pullman described this sumptuous little book as "a bridge between His Dark Materials trilogy and his (then) forthcoming series, titled The Book of Dust".