Buy this book on-line PULLMAN**, PHILIP: : The Subtle Knife: His Dark Materials II.**LONDON.SCHOLASTIC PRESS,1997. ISBN 0590542435.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[The true first edition with a complete number line,2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.]FINE/FINE.Neat,black ink,familial donor dated gift inscrptn to top corner ffe,but no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour pictorial wrap-around artwork by David Scutt, illustrated dw/dj with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Sharp-cornered boards with almost imperceptible bumping to head+foot of spine/backstrip.Top, bottom and fore-edges bright and clean with no ageing/toning,no dust-soiling,nor any foxing/
spotting,no off-set foxing to endpapers,no
cocking;contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners
- an unread example? Publisher's original dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt,handled-knife decoration to upper board and bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and and near immaculate (gift inscrptn excepted),plain
white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-341pp [paginated] includes 15 chapters each with a John Lawrence b/w line woodcut illustration headpiece,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents list/table and 2pp blanks to rear.Author's 2nd novel in the acclaimed His Dark Materials trilogy started with 'The Northern Lights' and finished with 'The Amber Spyglass'.
A fabulous example of this elusive collectable. Scarce and uncommon as most copies disappeared into libraries.
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[The true first edition with a complete number line,2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour pictorial wrap-around artwork by David Scutt, illustrated dw/dj with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.The tiniest of snicks to front,top corner.Sharp-cornered boards with almost imperceptible bumping to head+foot of spine/ backstrip.Top edges very,very slightly aged,with some minimal darkening towards the fore-edge extent,fore-edges generally bright and clean with minimal dust-soiling(?),and with no ageing/toning,no dust-soiling,nor any foxing/spotting,no off-set foxing to endpapers, no cocking; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - would appear an unread copy? Publisher's original dark green cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked,gilt handled-knife decoration to upper board and bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1- 341pp [paginated] includes 15 chapters each with a John Lawrence b/w line woodcut illustration headpiece; plus [unpaginated],half-title+title pages, contents list/table and 2pp blanks to rear.
Author's 2nd novel in the acclaimed 'His Dark Materials' trilogy started with 'The Northern Lights' and finished with 'The Amber Spyglass' - see rja26117,rja373010 and rja460713 respectively for examples.A fabulous example of this elusive collectable.Scarce and uncommon as most copies disappeared into libraries.
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