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Classic fantasy, the basis for the 1982 animated film, directed and produced by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass. . In Pringle: Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels no 38. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR/''For David - this copy of THE LAST UNICORN with the best wishes of Molly, Schmendrick, and yours truly, Peter S. Beagle 1 August 1979''. The novel involves a quest by the unicorn and two fellow companions, Schmendrick the Magician and Molly Grue. The author has (as he often did when signing his name) drawn a little face in the ''P'' of Peter in the inscription. Page edges browning (though top page edges stained pink as issued), else a fine copy in a near fine (bright and unfaded) dustjacket.

The Last Unicorn is a fantasy novel by American author Peter S. Beagle, originally published in 1968. It follows the tale of a unicorn who believes she is the last of her kind in the world and undertakes a quest to discover what has happened to the others.