signed first edition Hardcover
2024 · New York
by Rundell, Katherine; Mackenzie, Ashley (Art)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. First First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Katherine Rundell in ink at front endpaper. First American Edition with full number line indicating First Printing. 8 3/4" X 6 1/4". 358pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in red cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt and gilt dragon to front cover. Decorative red sprayed edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is square and sound. Includes a set of 5 creature trading cards with mini-descriptions of the featured creature.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
It was a very fine day, until something tried to eat him.
A boy called Christopher is visiting his reclusive grandfather when he witnesses an avalanche of mythical creatures come tearing down the hill. This is how Christopher learns that his grandfather is the guardian of one of the ways between the non-magical world and a place called the Archipelago, a cluster of magical islands where all the creatures we tell of in myth live and breed and thrive alongside humans. They have been protected from being discovered for thousands of years; now, terrifyingly, the protection has worn thin, and creatures are breaking through.
Then a girl, Mal, appears in Christopher’s world. She is in possession of a flying coat, is being pursued by a killer and is herself in pursuit of a baby griffin. Mal, Christopher and the griffin embark on an urgent quest across the wild splendour of the Archipelago, where sphinxes hold secrets and centaurs do murder, to find the truth—with unimaginable consequences for both their worlds. Together the two must face the problem of power, and of knowledge, and of what love demands of us.(Publisher). (Inventory #: 16221)
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
It was a very fine day, until something tried to eat him.
A boy called Christopher is visiting his reclusive grandfather when he witnesses an avalanche of mythical creatures come tearing down the hill. This is how Christopher learns that his grandfather is the guardian of one of the ways between the non-magical world and a place called the Archipelago, a cluster of magical islands where all the creatures we tell of in myth live and breed and thrive alongside humans. They have been protected from being discovered for thousands of years; now, terrifyingly, the protection has worn thin, and creatures are breaking through.
Then a girl, Mal, appears in Christopher’s world. She is in possession of a flying coat, is being pursued by a killer and is herself in pursuit of a baby griffin. Mal, Christopher and the griffin embark on an urgent quest across the wild splendour of the Archipelago, where sphinxes hold secrets and centaurs do murder, to find the truth—with unimaginable consequences for both their worlds. Together the two must face the problem of power, and of knowledge, and of what love demands of us.(Publisher). (Inventory #: 16221)
