Deerskin by Robin McKinley [FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING] 1993

Deerskin by Robin McKinley

FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1993] ACE BOOKS

Rare 1st printing!  Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.

Dust jacket w/ decorative metallic fonts on front; in excellent condition; mild tanning.  Housed in protective brodart jacket.

Book itself is pristine; looks and reads like new. 

The Newbery Award-winning author of The Hero and the Crown now speaks to a new audience, challenging everything we know--and don't know--about growing up, making choices, following one's own path, and finding light and magic in a world of evil and uncertainty. 

As Princess Lissla Lissar reaches womanhood, it is clear to all the kingdom that in her beauty she is the image of her dead mother, the queen. But this likeness forces her to flee from her father's lust and madness; and in the pain and horror of that flight she forgets who she is and what it is she flees from: forgets almost everything but the love and loyalty of her dog, Ash, who accompanies her. But a chance encounter on the road leads to a job in another king's kennels, where the prince finds himself falling in love with the new kennel maid . . . and one day he tells her of a princess named Lissla Lissar, who had a dog named Ash.