PULLMAN, Philip.. His Dark Materials trilogy. The Northern Lights; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass.. London Scholastic Publications 1997 & 2000, 1995.

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Description: First UK editions, 3 vols, vol. I signed by the author on title; 8vo, (225 x 145 mm); text leaves slightly toned at extremities in vols I and II, minor glue (?) stain to title of vol. I, minor ink stain at lower edge of text block of vol. II (not affecting text); publisher's cloth, lettered in gilt, unclipped dust-jackets, slight creasing to dust-jacket of vol. I with spines of vols I and III slightly sunned, very good overall condition. misc23 First UK editions of Pullman's acclaimed fantasy trilogy, signed by the author on the title of The Northern Lights and complete with original dust-jackets. His Dark Materials charts the coming of age stories of Lyra and Will as they traverse a series of parallel universes. The individual books in the trilogy have won a number of awards, including the 1995 Carnegie Medal for Northern Lights and the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year award for The Amber Spyglass. The trilogy has spawned a number of adaptations, including the National Theatre's two-part dramatisation (2003-2004), New Line Cinema's Hollywood film adaptation (2007), and, most recently, an HBO/BBC television series (2019-).

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