Jonathan Stroud — The Amulet of Samarkand

New York, Miramax; Hyperion, 2003 . First edition. Paperback. An uncorrected proof of the first US edition of Jonathan Stroud's first novel in the Bartimaeus Sequence, about a teen magician and a thousand-year-old djinni. An 'uncorrected galley proof' of the first US edition, first printing of this work.The Bartimaeus Sequence is a series of four young adult novels set in a parallel late nineteenth century London, where magic is real.This work follows Nathaniel, a boy magician-in-training, sold to the government by his birth parents at the age of five and sent to live as an apprentice to a master magician. When he musters the strength to summon the djinni Bartimaeus, the boy magician plunges finds himself in danger. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine .