A Lion Among Men.

MAGUIRE, Gregory.

$650.00

Item Number: 126888

New York: William Morrow, 2008.

First edition of the third volume in the author’s bestselling Wicked series. Octavo, original pictorial boards, cartographic endpapers, illustrated by Douglas Smith. Lengthily signed by the author on the half-title page, “There are many things in the cauldron, but the cooks do not dip in the ladle quite blindly. Their selection is important. Gregory Maguire June 30 2009.” The author has also added an original drawing of a cauldron. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket and case illustrations by Douglas Smith.

The third novel in Gregory Maguire's The Wicked Years, A Lion Among Men chronicles a battle of wits hastened by the Emerald City's approaching armies as seen through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion - the once tiny cub defended by Elphaba in Wicked. At once a portrait of a would-be survivor and a panoramic glimpse of a world gone shrill with war fever, the novel is written with the sympathy and power that have made his books contemporary classics. "Maguire more than makes up for what the book may lack in riveting action with his signature skilled wordplay and profound philosophies on life" (Library Journal). "Newcomers to Maguire's Oz should probably begin with Wicked, the first entry in this darkly enchanting saga" (Publishers Weekly).