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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Hardcover. Navy blue covers with white lettering on spine. 61 pp. Pages and text are clean. Light wear on covers, some rubbing around spine. Overall a very nice copy. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #071589
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. The Allegory of Love, Cecil Harwood's copy.On the flyleaf, written in Harwood's hand: "A C Harwood". Dark blue cloth boards with gilt text on the spine. 378 pp. Indexed. The book is dedicated to Owen Barfield, the third of the regulars in.....
Item #065670
London: Geoffrey Bles / The Bodley Head, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956. Pauline Baynes. British First Edition. Hardcover. BRITISH FIRST EDITION. 7 VOLUME COMPLETE SET IN DUST WRAPPERS. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. According to a list on Wikipedia, the first Narnia book, The Lion, The.....
Item #071802
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1954. Pauline Baynes. First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION, 1954. The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes. This first edition copy is beautifully rebound in half leather and marbleized boards. Part of the Chronicles of Narnia series. Brown 53. Rich half green leather.....
Item #070223
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964. First American Edition. Hardcover. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1964. Note that this is a work of fiction. There is no real Malcolm. The reflections on prayer are marvelous. Blue cloth boards with a device blind stamped on the front cover. Gilt text on the spine. The background.....
Item #071230
London: The Bodley Head, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Book six, in order of publication, in the Chronicles of Narnia series. Green cloth boards with silver text on the spine. 183 pp. Blue dust wrapper with an illustration in the center, white text above and black text below. An.....
Item #066265
New York: Macmillan, 1947. First American Edition. Hardcover. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1947. Blue cloth boards with gilt text on the spine. 220 pp. Indexed. Dust wrapper is brown and gray with white text. Brown 39.Book is VG+ with an owner's label on the first front end sheet. The dust wrapper is not price.....
Item #071231
New York: Macmillan, 1943. American Publisher's Galley for. Paperback. AMERICAN PUBLISHER'S GALLEY FOR THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. A Galley is a pre-publication printing of the text after the type is set but before it is properly paginated. Galleys are rare and show the uncorrected state of the text.Paper cover with.....
Item #064729
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. On the flyleaf Harwood signed his name, "Cecil Harwood". This is the classic first book in the cosmic trilogy of C. S. Lewis.Mauve cloth boards with mauve top stain on the top edge. 264 pp. plus four pages of.....
Item #065680
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney: Scribner. Paperback. The second book of Lewis' cosmic trilogy. 190 pp. Shelley and Son Books specializes in C.S.Lewis, J.R.R.Tolkien & the Inklings. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #069131
London / New York / Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. PRESENTATION COPY. Inscribed in Lewis' hand: "A. C. Harwood / ex dono auctoris / June 1939." which means a gift from the author.Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. 150pp. Dust wrapper.....
Item #065701
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1935. First American Edition. Hardcover. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1935. This was the first book that Lewis wrote after becoming a Christian. It is autobiographical. Lewis was known to his friends as Jack and the protagonist in this book is John. Burnt orange cloth boards with.....
Item #071239
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1951. Pauline Baynes. First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION, 1951. The second book in the Chronicles of Narnia series. Blue cloth boards with silver text on the spine. Map end sheets. 195 pp. The dust wrapper has a blue background with art by Pauline Baynes in a white.....
Item #068350
London / New York / Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY. Inscribed in Lewis' hand: "A. C. Harwood / ex dono auctouris / June 1937." which means a gift from the author.Black cloth boards with gold lettering on the spine. Binding is solid. Full refund.....
Item #065710
London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press at the Clarendon Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED FIRST EDITION The book is from the collection of famous book collector David Enderton Johnson whose card is laid in. The title page is signed, "C. S. Lewis Magdalen College, Oxford, 1939. "Black cloth.....
Item #062467
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960. Second Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed by Lewis to G. E. Sadler. Glenn E. Sadler was a graduate of Wheaton College where he got to know Clyde Kilby. In the sixties, when Kilby started working on the Lewis Collection that became the Wade Center, Sadler, who was.....
Item #039637
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION, 1945. This is the third book in Lewis' cosmic trilogy. Black cloth boards with gilt text on the spine. 476 pp. The dust wrapper has blue and black botanical art as a background and yellow text in script.....
Item #071229
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. This is the third book in Lewis' cosmic trilogy and he acknowledges debt to Olaf Stapledon. Lewis considered it a book fiction that correlated to his nonfiction book Abolition of Man. This story takes place on earth.....
Item #061002
[LEWIS, C. S.] Manuscript poetry in pencil.Here is what Don King, the preeminent scholar on Lewis' poetry, says about this hand written poem:The first passage has affinities with lines 5-8 of Canto V of The Queen of Drum: Happy the man who might have seenThe unripe breasts of that young QueenSo.....
Item #065727
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page, "with kind regards / C. S. Lewis / June 1938." Elegantly rebound in maroon leather by V. Wiering Bookbinder. Front and back are blank ... spine has text in gilt. 378 pp. Brown 10. Hooper 4.....
Item #063283
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1948. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. FIFTH PRINTING, 1948. Hardbound teal boards, white print title on spine; tight binding. Very slight shelf wear evident; previous owner's bookplate on pastedown. Underlining throughout text, yet does not impair readability. 68 pp. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #069992
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1945. First Printing, 1945. Hardcover. Hardbound green textured boards, white title on spine. Normal shelf wear to corners, head and tail of spine. Ex-library, pocket on pastedown with personal library stamp, torn 'due date' label on fly leaf. Tight binding, clean unmarked text, [vii] 68.....
Item #069989
New York: Collier Books / Macmillan Publishing Co., 1989. Paperback. Blue paper covers, black title front and spine. Price sticker on rear cover. Unmarked text, 56 pp. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #070080
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Lewis on the title page. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1961. Signed first edition. Blue cloth boards with black block on spine containing author, title and publisher. 143 pp. Dust wrapper has white text against red and black ground.....
Item #063652
Appleford Abingdon, Berkshire: Marcham Manor: 1972. first printing thus. Softcover. FIRST PRINTING THUS. This essay first appeared in 1949 in 20th Century: An Australian Quarterly. It has been reprinted in various books of essays. This is the first printing of this title in a pamphlet format as a stand alone.....
Item #063287