The Grey King, book 4 in The Dark is Rising, by Susan Cooper, 1984 edition.

Written by Susan Cooper. Illustrated by Michael Heslop. First edition, later printing, 1984. A Margaret K. McElderry Book. Atheneum, New York.

The Grey King, winner of the 1976 Newbery Award, is the fourth in Susan Cooper's five book series, The Dark Is Rising.

"When light from the lost land shall return,
Six Sleepers shall ride, six Signs shall burn,
And where the midsummer tree grows tall
By Pendragon's sword the Dark shall fall."

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"There is an old tradition in North Wales that, within a certain hill, a harp of gold will be found by a boy followed by a white dog with silver eyes - a dog who can see the wind. Will Stanton knew nothing of this when he came to Wales, just before Halloween, from his English home for convalescence after a severe illness. But when he met a strange boy named Bran and Bran's white dog Cafall, memory awoke in him. For Will himself was no ordinary boy, but the last-born of the Old Ones, servants of the Light, immortals dedicated to saving the world from domination by the force of evil which calls itself the Dark. And it is Will's long-appointed quest, as he now learns to wake - with the sound of the lost golden harp - the six sleepers who must by roused from their long rest in the ancient Welsh hills to make read for the last dreadful battle between the Dark and the Light."

Susan Cooper (1935- ) is a British-American author of fantasy and historical fiction. She is best known for her five-book series The Dark Is Rising; the first book in the series, The Dark Is Rising, was a Newbery Honor book, and in 1976 The Grey King was awarded the Newbery Medal. In 2012 Cooper was the US nominee for the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award for lifetime achievement. She has also written novels for adults, picture books, biographies, and nonfiction books on various topics.

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Condition: Fine/Near Fine. Dust jacket: Very light edge tanning visible from jacket inside. Pages are clean, undamaged, and complete.