Fine condition. David Fickling Books/Penguin,2017. Volume 1. First UK edition-2nd printing (3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2). Black hardback (gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj (small nick on the edges of the Dj cover), both in fine condition. Illustrated with b/w drawings. Illustrations by Chris Wormell. The book is new with a small ink mark on the outer edges of the pages. 548pp.Price un-clipped. Heavy book. This is another paragraph Book Description: Eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead and his d┬╡mon, Asta, live with his parents at the Trout Inn near Oxford. Across the River Thames (which Malcolm navigates often using his beloved canoe, a boat by the name of La Belle Sauvage) is the Godstow Priory where the nuns live. Malcolm learns they have a guest with them; a baby by the name of Lyra Belacqua . . .