The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman [U.K FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION] 1998 • Point • His Dark Materials #2

The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman U.K. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION [1998] POINT / SCHOLASTIC 2nd U.K. trade paperback printing / 1998.  Trade paperback in very good condition.  Perfect reading copy with a slight lean to binding.  Cover is in excellent shape.  Pages read perfectly with some inevtiable tanning.  His Dark Materials Book #2.  Will is twelve years old and he's just killed a man. Now he's on his own, on the run, determined to discover the truth about his father disappearance.Then Will steps through a window in the air into another world, and finds himself with a companion - a strange, savage little girl called Lyra. Like Will, she has a mission which she intends to carry out at all costs.But the world of Cittàgazze is a strange and unsettling place. Deadly, soul-eating Spectres stalk in its streets, while high above, the wingbeats of distant angels sound against the sky. And in the mysterious Torre degli Angeli lurks Cittàgazze's most important secret - an object which people from many worlds would kill to posses.