The Amber Spyglass

New York: New York, 2000. First American edition; first printing (full number line). Octavo in gold DJ, 518 pages, 22 cm. Extremely mild bumping and rubbing to corners, faint spotting and soiling to fore-edges, exceedingly gentle rubbing to spine head and foot (and front-top edge), extremely gentle rubbing to DJ edges and corners, else Near Fine(+) in Near Fine(-) DJ. in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. ISBN: 0679879269

DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. Lyra and Will find themselves at the center of a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by Lyra's father, Lord Asriel. Contents: Enchanted Sleeper -- Balthamos and Baruch -- Scavengers -- Ama and the Bats -- Adamant Tower -- Preemptive absolution -- Mary, alone -- Vodka -- Upriver -- Wheels -- Dragonflies -- Break -- Tialys and Salmakia -- Know what it is -- Forge -- Intention Craft -- Oil and Lacquer -- Suburbs of the dead -- Lyra and her death -- Climbing -- Harpies -- Whisperers -- No way out -- Mrs. Coulter in Geneva -- Saint-Jean-les-Eaux -- Abyss -- Platform -- Midnight -- Battle on the plain -- Clouded mountain -- Authority's end -- Morning -- Marzipan -- There is now -- Over the hills and far away -- Broken Arrow -- Dunes -- Botanic garden. Series: His dark materials, book 3. Witches -- Juvenile fiction.