The Amber Spyglass
The Amber Spyglass is the final novel of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, published in the UK by Scholastic and David Fickling Books on 10 October 2000, with a Knopf edition in New York that year. In 2001 it became the first children's book to win the Whitbread Book of the Year.
- Editions tracked
- 2
- First edition
- Knopf, 2000
- First UK edition
- Scholastic / David Fickling Books, 2000
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- Series
- His Dark Materials
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- Galaxy Plus2009 Other · His Dark Materials 3 Not yet valued I own The Amber Spyglass, Galaxy Plus 2009 Log in to want this
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Who published the first edition of The Amber Spyglass?
The first edition of The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman was published in New York by Knopf in 2000.
How many editions of The Amber Spyglass are there?
We track 2 editions of The Amber Spyglass, including 1 first edition. Each has its own page with how to identify it.
How can I tell if my copy of The Amber Spyglass is a first edition?
Check the title page and its reverse (the copyright page) against the edition: publisher, place and date should match, with no later printing or edition stated. Where we know the issue points, they are listed on the edition's page.
Where these facts come from
- The Amber Spyglass, Wikipedia, 2026 (en.wikipedia.org)
- The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman 2000, 1st US Edition, Nocloo (nocloo.com)
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