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New York: The Viking Press, 1968. First edition of Beagle's classic second book, which 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. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Peter S. Beagle on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some restoration to the back panel. Jacket design by Mel Williamson. It took Beagle "close to two years" to write The Last Unicorn, and he states that "it was hard every step of the way." Beagle came up with the idea for the novel in 1962 while on an "artistic retreat" in Berkshire Hills after Viking Press rejected his novel, The Mirror Kingdom. He stated that though the idea for the novel was "just suddenly there", he also said that he had "read tons of fantasy and mythology" from childhood, and that his mother told him that he had shared a story about unicorns during a visit to one of the elementary school classes she taught.…

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.