Specializing in C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Inklings & "The Seven"
The Inklings
Not Given: IHS Press, No date. Paperback. Stapled paperback with photograph of Chesterton on cover; entitled in white. Ex library, label on spine, stamp on page 1 and inside rear cover. Free of writing. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #072664
San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. This is one of the better biographies of Lewis. The author taught at Wheaton where he had access to the marvelous Wade Collection. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2005. First edition. Quarter dark red paper on red paper boards. There is a publisher's logo.....
Item #063668
New York: Newsweek, 2017. Special Edition. Magazine. NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE: TOLKIEN SPECIAL EDITION. New York, 2017. Introduction by Alan Lee. Many marvelous images in the magazine. The front cover of the magazine has a collage of images along with text and, in a circle, "100 Years of Middle-Earth." We are not sure why.....
Item #070265
Nebraska: iUniverse, 2005. paperback. An Authors Guild Backinprint.com Edition. Paperback. Yellow and brown pictorial glossy cover with red and black text. Dr. Edwin W. Brown owned one of the finest collections in the world of C.S. Lewis and Inklings-related books, and the entire original "Brown Collection" remains at Taylor University.....
Item #072790
Wheaton, IL: Harold Shaw Publishers, 1992. Paperback. Dorothy L. Sayers is best known as the creator of the Lord Peter Wimsey detective stories; she also wrote successful religious plays for British radio. CONDITION: Glossy paperback, title on cover against burgundy background, title on spine. Very mild wear. Ex library, label.....
Item #072652
Chicago, IL: Loyola University Press, 1985. G. K. Chesterton. Reprint. Hardcover. Hardcover. Brown quarter cloth cover with beige paper. Oblong. Frontispiece. Illustrated. 114pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Copy is new. Full refund if not satisfied. FROM THE DUST JACKET: "G.K. Chesterton first came to notice as a flamboyant, swordstick-toting journalist in.....
Item #061724
Friendswood, Texas: Bold Vision Books, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. Signed by editor Andrew Lazo on the title page. Essays by Charles Colson, Joy Davidman, Francis Collins, Jill Brisco, Randy Alcorn, Anne Rice, George Gallup, Jr., Walter Hooper, Thomas Howard and others. Full refund if not satisfied. Shelley and Son Books.....
Item #065204
Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Copyright 1975. Patricia Frost. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardbound green cloth, gilt title on spine, sound binding. Previous owner's name written on end paper. Dust jacket illustrated in color; title front and spine in white text. Very slight shelf wear. Full.....
Item #071259
Grand Rapids, Michigan: Brazos Press, 2016. paperback. Paperback. Black cover with gold text, decoration and spine. Many Christians today tend to view the story of medieval faith as a cautionary tale. Too often, they dismiss the Middle Ages as a period of corruption and decay in the church. They seem.....
Item #072438
New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1997. First paperback edition. Paperback. Dorothy L. Sayers was a brilliant writer, dramatist and thinker. She was a close friend of C. S. Lewis but she was not hesitant to take him to task when she felt he needed it. Author Barbara Reynolds was a......
Item #072374
Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998. Illustrated with photos. First Edition. Paperback. Part of a series called Eerdmans Books for Young Readers. 182 pp.Shelley and Son Books specializes in C.S.Lewis, J.R.R.Tolkien & the Inklings.Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #069128
Clearwater, FL: World Union of Deists, 2010. First Edition. Softcover. This book is highly critical of Lewis. It "...helps the reader realize not only the absurdity of Lewis' arguments...". First edition. Softcover. 154 pp. Not indexed. This book would be graded fine but for the library spoor, which makes it VG. Shelley.....
Item #072677
New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1990. John Howe. Paperback. Unusual paperback accompanying a fold out map of the Map of the Hobbit including Wilderland, Misty Mountains, Edge of the Wild, River Running, measuring 29"x28" in bright color. Booklet, 23 pp. CONDITION: Glossy paper cover with color illustration. Normal shelf wear. Map.....
Item #072648
Kendal: Titus Wilson & Son, 1966. Second Edition. Hardcover. Second edition, 1966. Stephens was an Inkling and a colleague of Lewis' at Magdalen College. In 1946 Lewis made a bet with Stephens, which was recorded in the college "Betting Book." Lewis bet that a certain Greek word did not appear in.....
Item #071853
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
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 / 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, 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 / Boston: Mariner Books, 2002. paperback. Paperback. Green and lavender cover with black and white illustration and black text. What are we doing when we pray? What is at the heart of this most intimate conversation, the dialogue between a person and God? How does prayer—its form, its.....
Item #072788
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 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: 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 / 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