For the avid reader, discerning collector and real Rick Riordan - fan,
a like-new, B&N Exclusive 1st US edition / 1st printing hardcover copy of
Rick Riordan
The Trials of Apollo
Book 1. The Hidden Oracle
Disney / Hyperion, New York / US, 2016
The book contains a "Letter from Apollo to Zeus", affixed to the inside of the back cover (apparently unread) which is exclusive to this edition. The book has only minor signs of use and storage. No tears, folds, markings, stains, etc. (see photos).
"How do you punish an immortal? By making him human. After angering his
father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and
disoriented, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now,
without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to
survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain
Zeus’s favor. But Apollo has many enemies—gods, monsters, and mortals
who would love to see the former Olympian permanently destroyed. Apollo
needs help, and he can think of only one place to go . . . an enclave of
modern demigods known as Camp Half-Blood." (rickriordan.com)
"Rick Riordan is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over
twenty novels for young readers, including the Percy Jackson series, the
Kane Chronicles, the Magnus Chase series and the Trials of Apollo. He
is also the author of the multi-award-winning Tres Navarre mystery
series for adults. For fifteen years, Rick taught English and history at public and
private middle schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Texas. While
teaching in San Antonio, Saint Mary’s Hall honored him with the
school’s first Master Teacher Award. While teaching full time, Riordan began writing mystery novels for
grownups. His Tres Navarre series went on to win the top three national
awards in the mystery genre – the Edgar, the Anthony and the Shamus.
Riordan turned to children’s fiction when he started The Lightning Thief
as a bedtime story for his oldest son. Today, over one hundred million copies of his books are in print in
the United States alone, and rights have been sold into more than 37
countries. Rick Riordan now writes full-time. He lives in Boston with his wife and two sons." (rickriordan.com)