VGC.Doubleday,2003.First UK edition-3rd printing(3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4).Purple hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,small nick on the edge of the cover) with Dj(two small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover),both in VGC.Nice and clean pages with a small foxing mark and light shelf wear on the outer edges,small ink mark inside the last blank page of the book,two small nicks and crease on the edges of the pages.The book is in VGC with two small ink marks and light shelf wear inside the Dj cover.480pp.Price un-clipped.

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Title

The Amulet of Samarkand

Publisher

Doubleday

Publication Date

2003

Language

English

ISBN 10

0385605994

ISBN 13

9780385605991

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First UK edition-3rd printing.

Condition

Very good

Dust Jacket Condition

Very good

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By Jonathan Stroud The Amulet of Samarkand (Amulet Trilogy) (First 1st Edition) [Hardcover] [Hardcover] Jonathan Stroud

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Nathaniel is a boy magician-in-training, sold to the government by his birth parents at the age of five and sent to live as an apprentice to a master. Powerful magicians rule Britain, and its empire, and Nathaniel is told his is the "ultimate sacrifice" for a "noble destiny." If leaving his parents and erasing his past life isn't tough enough, Nathaniel's master, Arthur Underwood, is a cold, condescending, and cruel middle-ranking magician in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The boy's only saving grace is the master's wife, Martha Underwood, who shows him genuine affection that he rewards with fierce devotion. Nathaniel gets along tolerably well over the years in the Underwood household until the summer before his eleventh birthday. Everything changes when he is publicly humiliated by the ruthless magician Simon Lovelace and betrayed by his cowardly master who does not defend him.

Nathaniel vows revenge. In a Faustian fever, he devours magical texts and hones his magic skills, all the while trying to appear subservient to his master. When he musters the strength to summon the 5,000-year-old djinni Bartimaeus to avenge Lovelace by stealing the powerful Amulet of Samarkand, the boy magician plunges into a situation more dangerous and deadly than anything he could ever imagine. In British author Jonathan Stroud's excellent novel, the first of The Bartimaeus Trilogy, the story switches back and forth from Bartimaeus's first-person point of view to third-person narrative about Nathaniel. Here's the best part: Bartimaeus is absolutely hilarious, with a wit that snaps, crackles, and pops. His dryly sarcastic, irreverent asides spill out into copious footnotes that no one in his or her right mind would skip over. A sophisticated, suspenseful, brilliantly crafted, dead-funny book that will leave readers anxious for more. (Ages 11 to adult) --Karin Snelson

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