The Princess Diaries
Price: $300.00
Hard Cover. New York: HarperCollins, 2000. First Edition. Near Fine / Dust Jacket Included.
First edition, first printing. Publisher's purple paper-covered boards, with titles in silver foil to front board and spine, and purple endpapers; in its original pink dust jacket with tiara image to front panel, jacket photographs by Timothy Hampson, and jacket designed by Alison Donalty. Near fine book, with light toning to board edges, light rubbing to spine ends, and a nick to bottom edge of rear free endpaper; near fine unclipped dust jacket, with light toning to top right of front panel and top of rear flap, a hint of rubbing to head of spine, a few very light scratches to rear panel, and some very mild dampstaining to jacket verso. Overall, a very crisp copy. The Princess Diaries is an epistolary young adult novel that tells the story of Mia Thermopolis, an awkward Manhattan teenager who lives with her single mom. Mia's life changes radically when she finds out that her father is the prince of Genovia (a fictional European country), and that she is heir to the throne. The Princess Diaries was included in Times' 100 Best YA Books of All Time list. Cabot has written eleven sequels to the book, and the series spent 48 weeks on the New York Times' Children's Series Best Sellers list. In 2001 the series was adapted into a hit film starring Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews. For the film, Julie Andrews made her first return to Disney since Mary Poppins (1965). Item #MCA001
