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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, 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
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, 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 / 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
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
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
[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
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
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1951. Pauline Baynes. First Edition, Signed by the Ill. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION, 1951. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, PAULINE BAYNES. Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis. Signed by Bayne on the title page. In publishing order, this is the second book in the Narnia series. Half leather on marbleized.....
Item #069213
London: Oxford University Press Humphrey Milford, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Inscribed on the first front end paper, "Larry Pearn [sp?] from Charles Williams". Glenn A.iii.5 Dark red cloth boards with silver text on the spine. 75 pp. Quite nearly fine with two very small black dots on the back.....
Item #064822
London: Victor Gollancz, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED on the half title page: "Salutations Distinguees / Dorothy L. Sayers."Â The phrase "salutations distinguees" is French and, roughly translated, it means, "your sincerely."Â On the first front end paper is the name "Ce'cile Peel." Orange cloth boards with a......
Item #064184
New York: Payson & Clarke, 1928. First American Edition. Hardcover. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1928. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club. A Lord Peter Wimsey novel. Purple cloth boards with green text on the spine. 345 pp. The dust wrapper has a purple background with gruesome art and text in green.....
Item #068395
New York: Brewer & Warren, 1930. First American Edition. Hardcover. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1930. This is the only mystery that Sayers wrote which does not feature Lord Peter Wimsey. Robert Eustace is a pen name for Eustace Robert Barton. Barton was a doctor and scientist. For this book, he supplied.....
Item #071284
Minneapolis: Privately Printed for Edmund D. Brooks and Alvin Langdon Coburn & their friends, 1914. Alvin Langdon Coburn (Photographs). First Edition. Inscribed by the. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED BY THE PUBLISHER. Sullivan 34. Privately printed for Edmund D. Brooks and Alvin Langdon Coburn and their friends. This copy inscribed to.....
Item #064817
London: Strahan & Co., 1871. Arthur Hughes. First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. This is MacDonald's first long fairy story published in book form. Illustrations by Arthur Hughes. London: Strahan & Co, 1871. Rebound in green cloth with gold text on the spine. 378 pp. with 13 pages of advertisements in.....
Item #063684
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION, 1882. THREE VOLUME SET. This book comes from the library of Maurice Sendak. Sendak was a prominent author and illustrator of children's books best know for his book "Where the Wild Things Are". He was a recipient of.....
Item #071277
London: Strahan, 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION, 1867. This book comes from the library of Maurice Sendak. Sendak was a prominent author and illustrator of children's books best known for his book "Where the Wild Things Are". He was a recipient of the Hans Christian Anderson Award for his lasting.....
Item #071278
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION, 1883. THREE VOLUME SET. First edition. This book comes from the library of Maurice Sendak. Sendak was a prominent author and illustrator of children's books best known for his book "Where the Wild Things Are". He was a recipient.....
Item #071279
Macmillan, [1868]. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the first page of the preface: "To the Liberal in Russell Gurney, the Conservative in George MacDonald offers his acknowledgement, with undying sense of obligation and undiminished freedom. January 1, 1869." Books signed or inscribed by MacDonald are uncommon. There is a penciled.....
Item #072483
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION, 1858. Phantastes by George MacDonald. This book had a huge influence on C. S. Lewis. He first read it when he picked up a copy at a train station when he was about 17. He was an atheist at the time.....
Item #070285
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1872 [1871]. First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION, 1872 [1871]. THREE VOLUME SET. This set comes from the library of Maurice Sendak. Sendak was a prominent author and illustrator of children's books best known for his book "Where the Wild Things Are". He was a recipient of the.....
Item #071283
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1938. First American edition, first st. Hardcover. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST STATE, 1938. The first state of the first American edition has a bowing hobbit (facing to the left) on the title page. In the second state this device is replaced with a worn publisher.....
Item #071256
New York: Time Magazine, 1947. Illustrated. Signed Magazine Cover. Magazine Cover. SIGNED BY C. S. LEWIS, 1947. Sept. xx 1947 Time Magazine cover signed by C. S. Lewis. We purchased this out of a collection of Time Magazine covers that a collector had sent off to celebrities for their signature.....
Item #068352