that year was kind of a 'grey July

between fact and spectral phenomena

Details of the digital schematics that instruct robots to sculpt marble are printed on sheets of tracing paper throughout the book

Flocks of crows emerge from the distance

Often beautiful and regularly unsettling in their ambiguity

The Dark is Rising - UK 1st Niagara that year was kind ofFirst 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".