The Grey King by Cooper, Susan - 1975

New York: Atheneum, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [14], 3-208, [4] pp. Grey cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine, green endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $6.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Jacket shows Winner of the 1976 Newbery Award statement and has the Newbery medal sticker on the front panel and thus must either be a second issue jacket, or supplied from a later printing by a previous owner. Full-page illustrations by Michael Heslop. The fourth book in Cooper's The Dark is Rising series. Slight lean, textblock is warped at the bottom, lengthy gift inscription on the half title page; price neatly clipped (part of the $ sign is still visible), creasing to the front flap and traces of wear to the extremities;.