The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
SKU: B-000754

The Subtle Knife

Author: Philip Pullman
Special Features: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Inscribed
Condition: In good condition. Dust jacket has a few small white spots. Inner cover page has a sticker. Some pages have lines down the page. Some rare minor page edge foxing.

Fantasy Children’s Books Young Adult

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Philip Pullman’s second installment of His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife, opens a second world for Lyra and introduces Will Parry—an instant classic of young-adult fantasy. This 1997 first-edition hardback from Alfred A. Knopf preserves the earliest U.S. text and jacket art for collectors who prize Pullman’s multiverse at its debut.

The book carries a neat previous-owner inscription on the flyleaf and arrives with its original dust jacket, now showing a few small white speckles. Inside, a tidy sticker on the inner cover and faint vertical lines on occasional pages testify to its reading life, while light edge foxing is present only here and there. Overall the copy remains tight and very readable, an inviting shelf piece rather than a pristine museum specimen.

A first printing of The Subtle Knife in jacket is increasingly scarce; paired with Pullman’s signature blend of theology, science and adventure, it offers both YA and adult readers a portal to the war of the worlds—and to the amber-lit vistas only the subtle knife can cut.