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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2018 by Holly Black
Illustrations by Kathleen Jennings
Cover art copyright © 2018 by Sean Freeman. Cover design by Karina Granda.
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“I’d Love to Be a Fairy’s Child” © 1918 by Robert Graves
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Black, Holly, author.
Title: The cruel prince / Holly Black.
Description: First edition. | New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018. | Series: The Folk of the Air ; 1 | Summary: Jude, seventeen and mortal, gets tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, where she and her sisters have lived for a decade.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016049232 | ISBN 9780316310277 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780316310284 (ebook) | ISBN 9780316310307 (library edition ebook)
Subjects: | CYAC: Fairies—Fiction. | Sisters—Fiction. | Orphans—Fiction. | Princes—Fiction. | Courts and courtiers—Fiction. | Fantasy.
Classification: LCC PZ7.B52878 Cru 2018 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016049232
ISBNs: 978-0-316-31027-7 (hardcover), 978-0-316-31028-4 (ebook), 978-0-316-48020-8 (Barnes & Noble), 978-0-316-41694-8 (OwlCrate)
E3-20171116-JV-PC
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