The Grey King (The Dark is Rising Series, Book 4)
by Susan Cooper
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0689500297
- ISBN 13
- 9780689500299
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Very Good Hardcover Very Good Dust Jacket Third Printing 1977 Newbery Gold Medal on Cover Pages Clean Price Cut NOT a library copy NO signatures. Several small fade spots on spine and board. Back of Jacket has small tear and rubbs at extremity of spine. Inside flap has small crease 1/8 inch inch. Original illustration on cover. The Dark is Rising is one of the most influential "Young Adult" Welsh themed Arthurian fantasies ever written. Susan Cooper honored Three Geese in Flight Celtic Books by writing us a nice note in 1977 congratulating us on opening "The First Bookshop dedicated to Lovers of Faerie" See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans of cover with Newberry Award, Spine and Third Edition page. Hard "Dark is Rising" to find as such.
Synopsis
The Grey King is a children's fantasy novel by Susan Cooper which was awarded the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1976. It is the fourth of five stories in her young adult Arthurian fantasy cycle, The Dark Is Rising. Elements of Welsh folklore, albeit freely adapted or re-invented by the author, play an important role in the book.
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- Bookseller
- Three Geese In Flight Celtic Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 874716943
- Title
- The Grey King (The Dark is Rising Series, Book 4)
- Author
- Susan Cooper
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0689500297
- ISBN 13
- 9780689500299
- Publisher
- Margaret K. Mcelderry Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- newberry award arthurian young adult faerie welsh fantasy arthurian fantasy novel dark is rising series newbery medal
- Bookseller catalogs
- Arthurian Legend; Welsh; Celtic Studies; Children's; Fantasy Literature; Cornish/Brittany/Isle Of Man;
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