About the Authors
CARLA JABLONSKI has edited and written dozens of best-selling books for children and young adults. She is also an actress, a playwright, and a trapeze artist, and has performed extensively in Scotland and in New York City. A lifelong resident of New York City, she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
NEIL GAIMAN is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of such titles as AMERICAN GODS and CORALINE (both New York Times best-sellers), NEVERWHERE, and STARDUST (winner of the ALA Alex Award). He is also the author of the Sandman series of graphic novels.
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JOHN BOLTON was seven when he first encountered a paintbrush and has enjoyed a long and illustrious career in which he has collaborated with some of the industry’s most prestigious contributors and handled assignments for a variety of major publishers.
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Copyright
The Books of Magic 2: Bindings
Copyright © 2003 by DC Comics. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
The Books of Magic, all characters, the distinctive likeness thereof, and all related names and elements featured in this publication are trademarks of DC Comics.
EPub © Edition AUGUST 2006 ISBN: 9780061973840
The Books of Magic, all characters, the distinctive likeness thereof, and all related names and indicia featured in this publication are trademarks of DC Comics.
Timothy Hunter and The Books of Magic created by Neil Gaiman and John Bolton.
The Books of Magic: Bindings was primarily adapted from the story serialized in The Books of Magic Volume 2, #1–4, originally published by Vertigo, an imprint of DC Comics, © 1994.
The Books of Magic: Bindings comic books were created by the following people:
Written by John Ney Rieber
Illustrated by Gary Amaro and Peter Gross
This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to any real people (living, dead, or stolen by fairies), or to any real animals, gods, witches, countries, and events (magical or otherwise), is just blind luck, or so we hope.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jablonski, Carla.
Bindings / Carla Jablonski; created by Neil Gaiman and John Bolton.—1st Eos ed.
p. cm.
Based on the graphic novel characters created by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by John Bolton and others; first published in single magazine form as, “The Books of Magic, 1–4.”
Summary: In this novelization of The Books of Magic, number two, Tim Hunter encounters new danger and trials on his journey to become the world’s greatest practitioner of magic.
ISBN 0-06-447380-5 (pbk.)
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