The Neverending Story [Never-Ending]

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1983. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 6x1x9. Quadflieg, Roswitha; Mantel, Richard. First American edition with $15.95 jacket price. Small light spot on fore edge, embossed owner stamp on front flyleaf, jacket spine faded, two small closed tears on rear jacket edge (almost invisible under fresh mylar). Binding tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked. 1983 Hard Cover. 396 pp. First English translation of Die unendliche Geschichte, translated by Ralph Manheim, with illustrations by Roswitha Quadflieg, jacket art by Richard Mantel. Red and green text and illustrations. Inspiration for Wolfgang Petersen's first English-language film, which at the time was the most expensive film produced outside the United States or Soviet Union. When Bastian happens upon an old book called The Neverending Story, he's swept into the magical world of Fantastica--so much that he finds he has actually become a character in the story! And when he realizes that this mysteriously enchanted world is in great danger, he also discovers that he is the one chosen to save it. Can Bastian overcome the barrier between reality and his imagination in order to save Fantastica?