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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
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: 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: 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: Faber & Faber, 1954. Reprint edition. Hardcover. Reprint edition, 1954. Violet cloth boards with gilt text on the spine. 230 pp. Dust wrapper has black text on yellow ground. The book has a price on the flyleaf but no other writing. Dust wrapper has wear at the extremities and minor scuffing. Wrapper is.....
Item #071310
Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1990. Hardcover. Outlines of Romantic Theology with which is reprinted Religion and Love in Dante: The Theology of Romantic Love. From the library of prominent Inklings scholar George Musacchio. Edited and introduced by Alice Mary Hadfield. The book and wrapper are fine with Musacchio's ownership information on.....
Item #071313
Kent: Kent State University Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION, 2002. Subtitled: Letters from Charles Williams to his Wife, Florence, 1939-1945. Williams called his wife Michal, an endearing name based on the wife of the biblical King David. Williams worked for Oxford University Press and that firm moved him to.....
Item #071312
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION, 1959. From the library of prominent Inklings scholar George Musacchio. Blue cloth boards with gilt text on the spine. 221 pp. Indexed. Dust wrapper has orange background, photo of Williams in the center, and white text. The book is very nice - nearly.....
Item #071309
New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, 1983.This book is from the library of prominent Inklings scholar George Musacchio. Quarter black cloth on orange paper. 268 pp. Indexed. Dust wrapper has orange background with a portrait of Williams in the lower half. Text is brown with green bands separating.....
Item #071308
Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1991. David Jones (front cover). Softcover. This book is part of the Arthurian Poets series. The editor, David Dodds, was once the Curator of the C. S. Lewis home, The Kilns. Softcover with most of the front being the painting Guenever by David Jones and with the.....
Item #071307
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
London: Methuen, 1914. Inscribed, First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED. FIRST EDITION, 1914. The book is inscribed by Chesterton to Hubert Paynter, a man he met in 1916 when he was recovering from war wounds.Cloth boards that are a rose colored red and have title/author blind stamped on the front cover. On.....
Item #071275
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
London: Published for the British Academy by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, No Date Listed. First Edition Thus. Softcover. FIRST EDITION, THUS. An offprint from the Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. VIII.THIS IS NOT BY THE GEORGE MACDONALD WHO WAS A GREAT INFLUENCE ON C. S. LEWIS. It is.....
Item #071280
New York: George Routledge & London: Alexander Strahan, 1871. First reprint of the 1868 first. Hardcover. This appears to be the first reprint of the 1868 first American edition. This book comes from the library of Maurice Sendak. Sendak was a prominent author and illustrator of children's books best known for.....
Item #071281
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1879. First American Edition. Hardcover. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1879. 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.....
Item #071282
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
London: HarperCollins, 2022. Deluxe Edition. Hardcover. DELUXE EDITION, WITH SLIPCASE, 2022. This book, edited by Brian sibley is the first ever presentation of the events of the Second Age of Middle-earth in a single volume with many exclusive features for the deluxe edition. Quarter orange paper on gray paper with.....
Item #071255
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
London: HarperCollins, 2009. First Can. Hardcover. FIRST CANADIAN EDITION, 2009. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. Canadian edition identified by Canadian price on the front dust wrapper flap. Hard cover with brown paper covered boards and gilt text on the spine. 377 pp. Three appendices. The dust wrapper at text in white.....
Item #071268
New York: John F. Rider, 1941. Illustrated. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth with silver lettering and design on spine and front cover. Profusely illustrated. Previous owner's name stamped on front free end-paper. There is no other writing in the book. Front inner hinge starting. 732pp. An exhaustive compendium of record.....
Item #028842
Seattle: Discovery Institute Press, 2012. First Edition. Softcover. FIRST EDITION, 2012. John G. West, Editor. Forward by Phillip E. Johnson. Softcover with artistic cover and white and yellow text. 347 pp. Indexed. Fine condition. Shelley and Son Books specializes in C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien & the Inklings. Full refund if not.....
Item #071254
Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2013. Inscribed copy. Softcover. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Published 2013. Collect poems. Guite is a leading Christian poet and blogger who sometimes lectures on C. S. Lewis. Inscribed and signed by Guite. Softcover. Near fine condition. Shelley and Son Books specializes in C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien & the.....
Item #071276