Urchin of the Riding Stars

McALLISTER, M[argaret] I. Urchin of the Riding Stars. The Mistmantle Chronicles. [London] Bloomsbury [2005]. 8vo, 333pp. Color pictorial boards. Blue endpapers; half-tone illustrated title page and chapter headings. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

First edition. The first book in M.I. McAllisters The Mistmantle Chronicles trilogy. An epic fantasy set in a world of talking squirrels, otters, and moles, with echoes of Watership Down, Duncton Wood, and even Wind in the Willows.