Predator’s Gold.
REEVE, Philip.
Predator’s Gold.
“I love history, Tom. All those old things people dig up. Just ordinary things that were once used by ordinary people, but made special by time”: First Edition of Predator's Gold; Signed by Philip Reeve
London: Scholastic Press, 2003.
$200.00
In Stock
Item Number: 152137
First edition of the second volume in Philip Reeve’s award-winning Mortal Engines Quartet. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed by Philip Reeve on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Cover illustration by David Frankland.
Predator's Gold (2003) is the second volume in Philip Reeve's celebrated Mortal Engines Quartet, a young adult science fiction and steampunk series set in a far future world governed by the principle of Municipal Darwinism, in which vast mobile cities travel across a barren Earth preying upon smaller settlements for their resources. Set two years after the events of Mortal Engines, the novel follows Tom Natsworthy and the fierce, scarred Hester Shaw as they travel the Bird Roads trading and adventuring in their small airship before a pursuing fleet of rocket-firing gunships drives them to seek refuge in Anchorage, a plague-decimated ice city headed on a doomed course toward the Dead Continent of North America. Reeve, a Brighton-born author and illustrator who worked in a bookshop for years before writing Mortal Engines while illustrating for the best-selling Horrible Histories and Murderous Maths series, brought to the quartet an imaginative world-building of exceptional originality and a storytelling energy that earned the series devoted critical and popular recognition. The first volume, Mortal Engines, was the Gold Award winner at the Nestle Smarties Book Prize in 2002 and the winner of the Blue Peter Book of the Year at the 2003 Awards, while the quartet's concluding volume, A Darkling Plain, won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 2006.
