Manhattan Rare Book Company

"War, politics, magic, science, individual lives and cosmic destinies are all here. They are not flung together, they are shaped and assembled into a narrative of tremendous pace by a man with a generous, precise intelligence. If you are going to preface your books with passages from Milton, Rilke and John Ashbery, then you had better write well. Pullman does. His prose has texture and flexibility, like excellent fabric. And he gives us so much. Suspense of course, but such degrees of pleasure, excitement (the excitement of meeting characters, not just adventurers) and grief. And such joy -- the joy of thinking, of testing your senses and feelings, of knowing your imagination is entering worlds not dreamed of in the usual philosophies." -Margo Jefferson, The New York Times

FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST ISSUES of all three volumes of Philip Pullman's celebrated Northern Lights [His Dark Materials] trilogy, with the rare first volume SIGNED BY PULLMAN.

Also with four bookplates signed by Pullman laid-in.

London: Scholastic, 1995, 1997, 2000. Thick octavo, original cloth, original dust jackets. Northern Lights signed on the title page and also on a bookplate on verso of title page. Vol. I: very slight lean, slight split after half-title, as usual, adhesive from bookplate on verso visible on title page; dust jacket fine. Vol 2: slight lean, crease to cloth on rear board; dust jacket fine. Vol 3: text block a little wavy towards end, jacket with crease on spine.

Price: $3,600 .