The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell [FIRST EDITION] • 23rd Printing / 1994 • Houghton Mifflin

The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell 

FIRST EDITION • 23rd PRINTING [1994] HOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO.

Source novel for "The Mysterious Cities of Gold", the classic anime Television series that aired on Nickelodeon in the 80's and early 90's.

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.

Light shelf wear. Dust jacket now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protrector. 

Book itself looks and reads like new.   

While awaiting trial for murder and withholding from the king the obligatory fifth of the gold found in Cibola, Esteban, a seventeen-year-old cartographer, recalls his adventures with a band of conquistadors.