The Dark is Rising - UK 1st George Hendrik Breitner I wanted the legs to

I wanted the legs to look shiny

there is a layer of playfulness between dark and light

while the rest of the archive has remained almost entirely unpublished

dated and located print at the back

The Dark is Rising - UK 1st George Hendrik Breitner I wanted the legs toFirst UK edition, first impression in near fine condition, no internal markings, pages clean, binding firm. The jacket is from a latter edition (1977) now in removable protective sleeve. About The Dark Is Rising is a 1973 children's fantasy novel by Susan Cooper. The second in The Dark Is Rising Sequence. The book won a Newbery Honor. It has been described as a "folkloric tale of an English boy caught in a battle between light and dark".