The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman [U.S. FIRST EDITION] 1996 • Knopf • His Dark Materials #1

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman [HIS DARK MATERIALS #1]

FIRST EDITION [1996] ALFRED A KNOPF U.S.

8th U.S. printing / 1996.  First published in the U.K. under the title "Northern Lights."

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. 

Dust jacket is in excellent shape with metallic embossed title fonts and some mild shelf wear.  Now housed in a new archival quality jacket protector.

Book itself reads flawlessly with some cosmetic wear.  Navy blue boards show a bit of wear and a few spots of mild discoloration.   Reads good as new. 

Book one in the epic His Dark Materials trilogy.  Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal--including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world.

Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want--but what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other.   - Bookshop Apocalypse