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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. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Larry Peter S. Beagle 11/8/93." Fine in a very good dust jacket. 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…

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.