His Dark Materials II. The Subtle Knife.

Tenth Anniversary Collector's Edition. Large 8vo. Pp. 332, [15]. Red 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 second volume in the Tenth Anniversary Collector's Edition of the "Dark Materials" trilogy, originally published in 1997, issued concurrently with the preceding volume Northern Lights, and the concluding tome The Amber Spyglass.

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. A phantasmagorical re-telling of Milton's epic Paradise Lost in this coming of age fantasy of two youngsters, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, adept at navigating a multiverse of parallel universes. "A work of genius." –Time Out