An exceptional and desirable signed set in fine condition. The Black Cauldron and The High King dust jackets without mention of the Newbery awards. Disney adapted the first two volumes into the animated film The Black Cauldron (1985)-the first Disney film to receive a PG rating. The Black Cauldron was named a Newbery Honor Book The High King won the Newbery Medal. "Lloyd Alexander ranks as one of the best writers of high fantasy to emerge since Tolkien, and his five novels comprising the Chronicles of Prydain are true classics of the genre" (Tymn, Fantasy Literature, 40-3). A lovely, complete set, in the Evaline Ness-designed dust jackets, in fine condition. Octavo, original boards, original dust jackets.įirst editions of Lloyd Alexander's Newbery-winning Prydain Chronicles, the first two titles-by far the scarcest-each signed by Alexander. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964-68. The Prydain Chronicles: The Book of Three, The Black Cauldron, The Castle of Llyr, Taran Wanderer, The High King. "TRUE CLASSICS OF THE GENRE": LLOYD ALEXANDER'S BELOVED PRYDAIN CHRONICLES, FINE FIRST EDITIONS OF ALL FIVE VOLUMES, THE FIRST TWO BOOKS SIGNED BY ALEXANDER: THE BOOK OF THREE AND THE BLACK CAULDRONĪLEXANDER, Lloyd.
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