Son of a Witch.

MAGUIRE, Gregory.

Item Number: 140893

New York: Regan Books, 2005.

First edition of the second book in the author’s Wicked series. Octavo, original illustrated boards, cartographic endpapers. Lengthily signed by the author with a large drawing on the half-title page, “He took her to the doorway and held her up in the warm rain. She cleaned up green. Gregory Maguire June 30, 2009.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Amanda Kim. Jacket illustration by Douglas Smith.

The Wicked Years continue in Gregory Maguire’s Son of a Witch—the heroic saga of the hapless yet determined young man who may or may not be the offspring of the fabled Wicked Witch of the West. A New York Times bestseller like its predecessor, the remarkable Wicked, Son of a Witch follows the boy Liir on his dark odyssey across an ingeniously re-imagined and nearly unrecognizable Land of Oz—a journey that will take him deep into the bowels of the Emerald City, lately abandoned by the Wizard, and into the jaws of dragons. At once a grim fairy tale and an uplifting adventure, Son of a Witch is a true wonder.