With dustwrapper. Dark blue cloth-covered boards. Silver lettering on spine. Signed by the author on title page. Inscription reads: "To Patrick and Elizabeth! Phillip Pullman". Pages tanned, otherwise near-fine. Seller Inventory # 116967

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Title: Count Karlstein

Publisher: Doubleday

Publication Date: 2002

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Bryan, Diana

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: dw

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Thus.

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Count Karlstein, or The Ride of the Demon Huntsman, was Philip Pullman's first novel for children, published by Chatto and Windus in 1982. It is a wonderful gothic melodrama which he first wrote as a play for school-children when he was an English teacher. Two young girls are in danger: their wicked uncle has made a bargain to hand them over to the terrifying Demon Huntsman, and it's up to a young maidservant called Hildi to rescue them.

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Philip Pullman is one of the most highly acclaimed children's authors of the decade. He has been on the shortlist of just about every major children's book award in the last few years, and has won the Smarties Prize (Gold Award, 9-11 age category) for THE FIREWORK-MAKER'S DAUGHTER and the prestigious Carnegie Medal for NORTHERN LIGHTS. He was the first children's author ever to win the Whitbread Prize for his novel THE AMBER SPYGLASS.

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