Messenger by Lois Lowry SIGNED! [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 2004 • The Giver #3

Messenger by Lois Lowry [THE GIVER QUINTET #3] FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [2004] WALTER LORRAINE • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN  *Title page signed, inscribed (for Rebecca) and dated by author Lois Lowry circa 2004.  Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition;  Mild shelf wear to jacket; now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector. Book itself is mint. Beautiful gilded boards.  Reads as new.  Messenger is the masterful third novel in the Giver Quartet, which began with the dystopian bestseller The Giver, now a major motion picture. Matty has lived in Village and flourished under the guidance of Seer, a blind man known for his special sight. Village once welcomed newcomers, but something sinister has seeped into Village and the people have voted to close it to outsiders. Matty has been invaluable as a messenger. Now he must risk everything to make one last journey through the treacherous forest with his only weapon, a power he unexpectedly discovers within himself.