RIORDAN, Rick. The Lightning Thief. Percy Jackson & the Olympians Book I. NY: Miramax [2005]. 8vo, [vi] 377pp. Dark gray cloth with spine stamped in silver. Spine ends a tad rubbed, lightest staining to top edge of sheets, previous owner’s bookplate on rear endpapers under flap, else a clean, tight copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (spine ends and corners a tad rubbed, a few incredibly faint scratches). Signed by the author, Rick Riordan!

 

First edition. The first title in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, featuring a dust jacket design that was soon replaced when Caldecott Honor Artist John Rocco was brought on board. When Percy discovers his long absent father is actually a Greek god – making him a teenage demi-god! – his world is turned upside down. As if monsters trying to kill him weren’t bad enough, now he’s been accused of stealing Zeus’s thunderbolt. And if he doesn't find the real culprit and return the thunderbolt, the gods may go to war! The start to one of the most popular and best-selling series of the past 20 years. Also the basis for the 2010 film and the currently running Disney+ series.