The Grey King

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Overview:

Title: The Grey King
Author: Susan Cooper
Year: 1975
ISBN-10: 0689500297
Publisher: Atheneum
Price: $6.95
Pages: 208
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Title Reference: The Grey King
Notes: 1st ed., or one of simultaneous Clute/Nicholls, Clute/Grant have the US edition as the first; Reginald3 has the UK edition first. We date the UK edition October with no stated source (2022).

September publication stated in "Atheneum Books for Children Fall 1975", School Library Journal 22.2 (Oct 1975) p6-7, as "9-14 $6.95 Sep". That is, reader ages 9-14.