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Author: PULLMAN, Philip. [LAWRENCE, John, illustrator].
Title:  Lyra's Oxford. [His Dark Materials / Golden Compass].
Language: Text in English.
Publisher: London: David Fickling Books, 2003. SIGNED First EDITION.
Size: 7 "X 4.5 ".
Pages: 55 pages.
Binding: Fine full cloth binding (hinges fine) under a protective removable mylar cover. As-New.
Content: Fine content (bright, tight and clean). Signed by the author in blue ink to title page. Complete with the fine fold-out map of Oxford.
Illustrations: Nicely illustrated by John LAWRENCE.

The book: Rare signed first edition. A fine, as-new copy. Lyra's Oxford is a short book by Philip Pullman depicting an episode involving the heroine of His Dark Materials, Pullman's best-selling trilogy. Lyra's Oxford is set when Lyra Belacqua is 15, two years after the end of the trilogy.

The author: Sir Philip Pullman, CBE, FRSL (born 19 October 1946) is an English novelist. He is the author of several best-selling books, including the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials and the fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. In 2008, The Times named Pullman one of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945". In a 2004 poll for the BBC, Pullman was named the eleventh most influential person in British culture. He was knighted in the 2019 New Year Honours for "services to literature."