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Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt text on the spine. 378 pp. Indexed. VG. A name on first front end paper. Inside front cover a name roughly erased leaving only the word Boston. No other writing. Binding is solid. Lacking dust wrapper. Shelley and Son Books specializes.....
Item #074403
London: Geoffrey Bles The Centenary Press, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. This is the third book taken from Lewis' broadcast talks on BBC. Yellow cloth boards with blue text on the spine. 64 pp. VG with a small round dot smaller than a dime on the front cover. Owner's name on first front end.....
Item #074404
New York: Macmillan, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956. Pauline Baynes. First American Edition. Hardcover. Complete in seven volumes. The dust wrappers on this set are FACSIMILES. All books are first printings of the first American edition published by Macmillan, illustrated by Pauline Baynes. 1. The Lion the Witch and.....
Item #074405
London / New York: J. M. Dent / Macmillan, 1950. Second Printing. Hardcover. Dymer is a narrative poem. It did not sell well and Lewis decided to stick to prose thereafter. Orange cloth boards with gilt text on the spine. Orange top stain. 104 pp. No writing in the book. VG+ Shelley and.....
Item #074406
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Lewis' comments on affection, friendship, eros and charity. Gray cloth boards with red text on the spine. 160 pp. Dust wrapper has an oval center over four quadrants of different colors. Text is in black. Quite a nice copy. Book has a touch of fading at the very edges.....
Item #074407
London: Geoffrey Bles: The Centenary Press, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. In this unique book, Lewis shows that people actually choose hell, they are not "sent" there. It is possible too that Lewis is here responding to Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Yellow boards with a section of the spine colored.....
Item #074408
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. This book is fiction. Malcolm is an invented character with whom Lewis appears to be corresponding. Lewis wrote it before he died but it was published after his death. Green cloth boards with a black section on the spine made to look like a label. Gilt.....
Item #074410
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1950. Pauline Baynes. First Edition. Hardcover. The first book of The Chronicles of Narnia. Light green cloth boards with silver text on the spine. 173 pp. Rough condition. Cocked, spine sunned, missing half title page & frontispiece, soiled. Owner's name on title page and a child's scrawl verso.....
Item #074411
London: The University of London the Athlone Press, 1950. First Edition. Softcover. Lewis presented this material as the Ethel M. Wood lecture delivered before the University of London on March 20th 1950. Gray soft cover with red text on the cover. 26 pp. Very good condition. Browning at the edges. Shelley and.....
Item #074412
London: Geoffrey Bles: The Centenary Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Subtitled, "A Preliminary Study." Bluish green boards with gilt text on the spine. 220 pp. Indexed. The dust wrapper is off white with black text and a green double line border. A pleasing copy. The book is in nice condition but has an.....
Item #074431
New York: Macmillan, 1945. First American Edition, First St. Hardcover. For the first American edition, at the bottom of the spine is the word Macmillan and below it there are two variations. A single dot is the first state and a dash-dot-dash is the second state. This is the first book.....
Item #074433
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Cecil Harwood's copy with his name on the first front end paper. Lewis met Harwood when they were nineteen and they became friends for life. Harwood was co-executor of Lewis' literary estate. Our Inklings catalogs have always been composed of newly.....
Item #074432
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Lewis considered this his second best work of fiction. Blue cloth boards with black text on the spine. 256 pp. This copy is not quite very good. This spine should be blue but is totally sunned to a brown color. The first.....
Item #074434
London: Sheed & Ward, 1935. Second Printing. Hardcover. Subtitled "An Allegorical Apology for Christianity Reason and Romanticism". This book is autobiographical with the protagonist named John - based on Lewis' preferred nickname of Jack. Light brown boards with red text on the spine. 256 pp. Map end sheets. Book is VG-.....
Item #074435
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Maroon cloth boards with yellow text on the spine. 151 pp. VG with owner's writing inside front board and an address label blacked out. Three check marks on contents page. Lacking dust wrapper. Shelley and Son Books specializes in C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien & the.....
Item #074437
University Press: Cambridge, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. This is a literary book, not a Christian book. The words studied are nature, sad, wit, free, sense, simple, and conscience & conscious. Blue cloth boards with a section on the spine colored black and gilt made to look like a label. Text on.....
Item #074439
New York: Macmillan, 1946. First American Edition. Hardcover. This is the third book in Lewis' cosmic trilogy (science fiction). Gray cloth boards with black text on the spine. 459 pp. Wear on the bottom edges of the boards with wear-through at the corners. The inside of the front cover has a small section.....
Item #074409
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. This is one of the few Lewis books where the first edition is the first American edition. Blue boards with a gilt decoration on the front cover. Gilt text on the spine. 113 pp. Dust wrapper is blue with text in red.....
Item #074440
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965. First American Edition. Hardcover. Includes an appendix of "previous publications of poems already printed". Quarter white cloth on burgundy paper. Bronze text on the spine. 142 pp. Dust wrapper is blue and brown with white text. Book is VG+ with staining on the spine. No.....
Item #074438
Lancaster, PA: Theology Today, July, 1948. Softcover. A somewhat negative review. This comes with two other issues of Theology Today. The Oct, 1949 issue has a review of an Austin Farrer book and the Jan. 1950 issue has an article by Chad Walsh. A quarterly periodical with a blue and gray.....
Item #074443
New York: HarperCollins, 2022. Hardcover. Subtitled "A Miscellany of Advice and Opinions". Black cloth boards with the HarperCollins logo blindstamped on the front cover. Gilt text on the spine. 191 pp. Dust wrapper is maroon with text in white and gilt. Signed by Downing on the title page. New. Shelley and Son Books.....
Item #074441
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Selected and arranged by Marie Smith. Uncollected stories and fables. Gray cloth boards with gilt text on the spine. 142 pp. Spooky art on the cover of the dust wrapper with white text. The book would be graded fine were in not.....
Item #074445
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, No Date Listed. Hardcover. Maroon cloth boards with an image of Chesterton in gilt on the front cover. 974 pp. Lower left corner of back cover has discoloration. Opening front cover one sees staining on left and right plus a book plate on the left.....
Item #074446
New York: John Lane, 1910. Second American Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt text on the front cover. 249 pp., followed by an unpaginated catalog. Spine is a bit sunned and there is an owner's name inside the front cover. Lacking dust wrapper if there was one. Shelley and.....
Item #074448
London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1926]. F. Cayley Robinson. First l. Hardcover. Eight tipped-in color illustrations by F. Cayley Robinson with titled tissue guards. The illustrations are marvelous. Tan boards with a small illustration in the upper half of the front cover. 185 pp. Published without a dust wrapper. Sullivan 57. General wear on the.....
Item #074449