Great Divorce by Lewis C S, First Edition (29 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London. Fount Paperbacks. 1986. Soft Covers. Sixteenth reprint from first paperback issue of 1977. Front wrap shows 12th century 'Ladder of Judgement' an important ascetical treatise for monasticism in Eastern Christianity. In better condition than would be expected for its age. No visible wear but text block is toned due to the paper used for printing. Very good plus condition. This is C.S. Lewis's response to William Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell". Unlike Blake, Lewis believed that good and evil need not and should not be together in an eternal Gordian knot. As Lewis says in his introduction, "Evil can be undone, but it cannot "develop" into good. Time does not heal it .If was insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell." Like Blake's work, Lewis's book is the account of a dream - a mixture of fantasy, fable and parable, with a Bunyan-like cast of "everymen". The wraps will be covered with an inert archival protective sleeve which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional photographs. Postage price quoted outside the UK are for a book up to 1kg using UPS. Book(s) above this weight may incur a surcharge. For books sent within the UK, there will be no extra charge for books up to 2kg and are sent by Royal Mail. Postage quoted in the UK is the actual cost (£2.85). All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. If your book is intended as a gift, please let us know and we will gift wrap it free of charge with a card and any message.

Hardback. Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. First edition first printing octavo hardback. cream cloth with red title panel 118 pp. Good + condition. No inscriptions It appears an name has been cut from the end paper top corner with the same piece of paper cut from the half title (probably by mistake).

Condition: Good. 1945. First Edition. 118 pages. Beige dust jacket over yellow cloth. Dust jacket split in two pieces with spine missing. Pages are clean overall, with mild tanning throughout. Binding remains firm. Occasional dog-eared corners. Minor foxing to text block edges. Boards have slight edge wear with corner bumping. Mild tanning to spine and edges with some crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket is in two parts and has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Spine is missing. Tape to rear panel. Light tanning to spine and edges. Wear marks overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. First edition THUS, second printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Former owner's name, otherwise unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Name of the previous owner. Publication of 118 pages. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. There are minor pen markings within the book, the text remains normal. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Paperback. Condition: New. First Printing Thus. New. Very little shelfwear. The pages have yellowed with age. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Religious Studies.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Small stamp mark of the previous owners name. Publication of 116 pages. The Boards are a little shelf rubbed and minor marks. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text remains legible. R* GK 2023/04/06. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A good quality first edition (November 1945) but without a dustcover. The pages are clean, the binding is good and the spine is unrubbed (if a little forward leaning). Inscribed. Please see photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1952 first American edition. Book in good condition, light shelf wear. DJ has tears to spine, otherwise intact with normal wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Original yellow cloth. Neat bookplate to the rear of the front board. Otherwise no marks or inscriptions internally. Near Fine. With the original DJ which is not price clipped but is missing the spine.

[NONE] 1946, 1st US printing. (hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 133pp. 12mo. Allegorical Christian narrative about a bus ride from Hell to Heaven, a meditation on good and evil, grace and judgement, with questions and conversations. Jacket is chipped at the upper edge and shows light rubbing; now in loose mylar sleeve to deter any further wear. The first few pages (to page 5) show some discolouration, small in size, and of no consequence to the actual text. The lower top corner lightly bumped. There is a name penned (small and neat) to the front free endpaper. These slights identified, this remains a bright, crisp, very good copy of this first American printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Octavo, 118pp. Cream cloth binding with text to a red panel on spine, shelf worn to edges and corners, grubby looking, text is clean and clear; With a preface by the author.

Wraps. 1st edition thus. Seven volumes (complete set), in original slipcase. Each volume in wraps. Near fine condition in like slipcase. Compilation of C.S. Lewis's spiritual and inspirational writings.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. hardback, slim octavo, yellow cloth lettered black on red to the spine. The book is in very good condition, tightly bound, clean and unmarked. The dust jacket is in a poor state with some loss & taped repairs to the verso showing through, 118pp.

Sm. 8vo., First Edition; original yellow cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Hooper 17.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. First Edition. 118 pp. Publisher's yellow cloth with red title panel to spine in jacket, not price clipped. Jacket is edgeworn and has significant loss to spine and top of front panel, with a few marks, wear to joints and a sticker to front panel - but still together. Boards clean. Internally clean and bright, with no ownership marks. This UK first edition was published the year before the US version. 8vo.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition, First Printing. [6], 7-118 pp. 16mo, yellow cloth, black stamped lettering, title blocked in reddish-orange panel. Very trivial foxing to head edge, as usual with wartime paper still in use. Tail half of DJ spine lost with just a bit more lost around the edge, unclipped and wrapped in mylar. Stated 'First published November 1945.' 'This publication date was a printer's error. The book was actually published January 14, 1946' Brown, 232) Brown 34.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A near fine copy in a good DJ with loss to the spine. Not Price clipped with a previous owners name to the FFEP.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. 118 pp. Publisher's yellow cloth with red title panel to spine and dustjacket. Jacket is torn with some loss at spine and top edge and tape to the inside of the front cover. Boards clean, generally internally clean with occasional small blemishes. This UK first edition was published the year before the US version. 8vo.

1/4 Morocco. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. 118 pp. Rebound in green quarter morocco binding with green cloth boards, gilt lettering and details to the spine and red title label. Spotting to the fore edge, otherwise clean. Small 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Very good tight clean unmarked copy, slight dinge affecting bottom corner of rear cover, small tear to wrapper at top of spine, light wear elsewhere, not price clipped, see photos.

Blue Cloth. Condition: Fine Book. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine DJ. First American Edition, Third Printing. Viii, 133 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. "First Printing" Stated On Copyright Page, Dj Priced $1.50 And Is Slightly Taller Than The Book. A Clean, Tight, Solid, Unfaded Unmarked Example With No Wear Or Marks. Dj With Rubbing At Corners, No Fading, Slight Dust To Rear Panel.

Half Morocco. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition. 118 pp. Recent half tan morocco over marbled boards with raised bands, red title label, gilt-stamped devices and lettering to spine. Scattered light marks occasionally within and to fore-edge, otherwise internally clean. Small 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A near fine copy in a good DJ with loss to the spine. Not Price clipped and with no marks or inscriptions internally.

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st edn. ~First edition. Yellow cloth, red and black title to spine. With scarce original dustwrapper, slightly edgeworn with miniscule loss at ends spine. Spine of dustwrapper slightly tone and with very small splash stain; also price-clipped, but protected in removable clear plastic sleeve. No foxing to endpapers or dustwrapper. Owner's signature in purple ink to inside front board: 'D.E. Bailey Xmas 1946 R.91' Given that this is a wartime economy production, in remarkable condition. First edition of Lewis' classic dream vision. ~Robust packaging. All UK orders with tracking, overseas tracking available on request. Size: 118pp. Binding sound, text unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition/Stated First Printing; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, with only a couple of slight rubs to the panel edges and a very mild age-toning to the back panel and text block. An exceptionally well preserved copy of this story of a road trip from Hell to Heaven; Lewis is the master of Christian Apologetic work, this short novella being no exception. The first US edition somewhat uncommon, scarce in this condition. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST IMPRESSION. HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING WITH THE ORIGINAL UNPRICE CLIPPED DUST JACKET, HALF TITLE PRESENT. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES WITH 118 PAGES. MINOR CHIPPING TO JACKET AT TOP & BOTTOM OF SPINE WITH A COUPLE OF VERY SMALL CLOSED TEARS, FEW MINOR MARKS TO SPINE OF JACKET & REAR OF JACKET, FOXING TO INSIDE OF JACKET BUT OVERALL THE BOOK IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH NO MAJOR FAULTS, DUST JACKET IS VERY GOOD PLUS. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JACKET HAS A CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING THAT MAY SHOW SOME REFLECTIONS IN IMAGES. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS.

First edition of the author's allegorical tale about a bus ride from Hell to Heaven. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper with a pre-publication appearance of his 5-stanza autograph poem, The Meteorite, "The Meteorite Among the hills the meteorite Lies huge; and moss has overgrown, And wind and rain with fingers light Made soft the contours of the stone. Thus easily can Earth digest A cinder of sidereal fire, And make her translunary guest The native of the English shire. Nor is it strange these wanderers Find in her lap their fitting place, Since every particle that's hers came at the first from outer space. All that is Earth has once been sky; Down from the sun of old she came, Or from a star that travelled by Too close to his entangling flame. Hence, if belated drops still fall From heaven, on these her plastic power Still works as once is works on all the first rush of the golden shower. C.S. Lewis June 1946. Sorry it is so smudgy but the paper is like blotting-paper!" The Meteorite was first published in the December 7, 1946 issue of Time and Tide Magazine. The following year, Lewis included it as the the epigraph in his book Miracles, published in 1947. It subsequently appeared in multiple printings of his Poems and Collected Poems. The version of the poem here contains a few differences to those found in print and indicates that Lewis continued to tinker with the poem after publication. Near fine in a very good supplied dust jacket. Exceedingly rare with such a lengthy presentation from Lewis. In The Great Divorce, C. S. Lewis again employs his formidable talent for fable and allegory. The writer finds himself in Hell boarding a bus bound for Heaven. The amazing opportunity is that anyone who wants to stay in Heaven, can. This is the starting point for an extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, grace and judgment. Lewis's revolutionary idea is the discovery that the gates of Hell are locked from the inside. In Lewis's own words, "If we insist on keeping Hell (or even earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell." â Much deserves to be quoted. attractive imagery, amusing satire, exciting speculations. Lewis rouses curiosity about life after death only to sharpen awareness of this worldâ (Guardian).