A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in the Wicked Years (Wicked Years, 3)

This is the Limited and Signed First Edition, specially bound and produced by the publisher, 2008, first printing, 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1, SIGNED by the author on a special page provided by the publisher for this issue, a new, unread, unworn, unopened, otherwise unmarked hardcover, with an equally fine unclipped ($26.95 top, 1006 bottom, front flap) dust jacket, from Morrow, with a gold sticker on the front stating: Signed First Edition. By Gregory Maguire, previously author of the bestselling WICKED. ISBN 978-0-06-054892-6. In this much-anticipated third volume of the Wicked Years, we return to Oz, seen now through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion - the once tiny cub defended by Elphaba in Wicked. While civil war looms, a tetchy oracle named Yackle prepares for death. Before her final hour, an enigmatic figure known as Brrr - the Cowardly Lion - arrives searching for information about Elphaba Thropp, the Wicked Witch of the West. As payment, Yackle demands some answers of her own. Brrr surrenders his story: abandoned as a cub, his earliest memories are gluey hazes, and his life's path is no Yellow Brick Road. A Lion Among Men chronicles a battle of wits hastened by the Emerald City's approaching armies. At once a portrait of a would-be survivor and a panoramic glimpse of a world gone shrill with war fever, Gregory Maguire's new novel is written with the sympathy and power that have made his books contemporary classics.