SPRING-HEELED JACK

by Philip Pullman

$85 · Offered by L. W. Currey

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991 . Octavo, illustrated by David Mostyn, two-part boards. First U.S. edition, first printing. A children’s adventure novel that re-imagines the Victorian urban bogeyman as a heroic, comic-book-style superhero rather than a terrifying child-snatching phantom. A fine copy in fine dust jacket priced 9.95 on the front flap. #178760

• Printing: first

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