The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe is the most popular C.S. Lewis book of all time, with the first edition being printed in 1950. This is the second book in the series which is the premise for the Disney major motion picture The Chronicles of Narnia.

First edition. With original un-restored dustwrapper. With illustrations by Pauline Baynes & colour frontispiece. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Dated Christmas 1950. Un price clipped showing original 8s. 6d. A bright copy with some minor loss to the top and tail of the wrapper. The ultimate C.S. Lewis children's book. $16,997.40
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The Screwtape Letters

In The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis delves into moral questions about good vs. evil, temptation, repentance, and grace. Through this wonderful tale, the reader emerges with a better knowledge of what it means to live a good, honest life.

First Edition, First Impression. One of the author’s toughest books to find in dustjacket. 8vo. Original black cloth, white paper title label to spine printed in black. With the dustjacket. An excellent copy in the rather spotted and slightly sunned dustjacket with some minuscule rubbing at the top of the spine panel. $5,789.63
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The Pilgrim's Regress

Book Condition: Very Good. The author's first book published under his own name, after two unsuccessful books of poetry under the name Clive Hamilton. Only 650 copies of the book were known to have been sold, and copies in the dust jacket are rarely found today. This is a near-fine copy with minimum wear, a 1/4" stain on the topedge, and a tiny owner's signature dated May 1933 on the endpaper map, indicating this to be one of the first copies sold by Blackwell's (whose small sticker is on the pasted-down endpaper), the book having been published on May 25, 1933. The book is offered in a facsimile dust jacket. $750.00
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The Allegory of Love

Recommended by Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.

In 1936, Lewis published the breakthrough work that earned him his reputation as a scholar, The Allegory of Love, a work of high-calibre, original scholarship that revolutionized literary understanding of the function of allegory in medieval literature, particularly Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene. Dark blue boards Showing some creases and discoloration, there is smudging to front cover. shelf worn corners. Slightly shelf cocked no dust jacket. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine, spine bumped to top and bottom, back cover has some wear Inside front cover has small dealer book plate noted. Pages are browning. Front inside hinge beginning to crack, the binding is intact. Text is clean and intact. $1,170.00
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An Experiment in Criticism

Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Literary criticism is traditionally employed in judging books, and 'bad taste' is thought of as a taste for bad books. Professor Lewis's experiment consists in reversing the process. He defines a good book as one which can be read in a certain way, a bad book as one which can only be read in another. 141pp 8vo 5" + 8" (13.0 + 20.0 cm.) A problem free copy with a name plate all hidden behind the wrappers front flap. In publishers blue board with title label to top of spine. In checkered black / red printer wrapper. A bright copy tight that appears unread. $90.00
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Surprised By Joy

1955, Geoffrey Bles Ltd., London, first UK edition, 2nd impression, dj front corners chipped, 2 small closed tears to back cover top edge, dj slightly foxed, otherwise fine. Light grey cloth boards, gilt on yellow spine titles. (Clipped, tight, clean). Autobiography: subtitled The Shape of My Early Life, this is Lewis' account of his journey through atheism to Christianity. First edition was September 1955, this is 2nd impression, November 1955. Dustjacket cover design by artist John Biggs. $53.24
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Perelandra

New York: Macmillan, 1944. Hardcover. First American Edition. Save for dust on the textblock, a fine copy with crisp, clean boards. The jacket is sunned at the edges, spine and on the rear board with 4 1/2 chips and overall moderate soil. $190.00
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The Weight of Glory

Very Good. No Jacket. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Vintage paperback. Pages clean, unmarked, binding tight. Original price on front cover: £1. Only minor shelf-wear to extremities. Examining the difference between unselfishness and love, these sermons on faith, delivered during World War II and the years which immediately followed, are more relevant today than ever. $6.13
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