Hideous Strength, First Edition (21 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition first printing as Pan paperback. 252 pp. only in Fair condition. Pages tanned with age, lacking end papers, Covers dust soiled , a figure "6" has been written on the front cover. No inscriptions.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. near fine. Unread. Clean, tight. Paperback.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Muy bueno. Dust Jacket Condition: Muy bueno. 1ª Edición. José Janés Editor, 1949. Colección Manantial Que No Cesa. Traducción de Manuel Bosch Barrett. 500 p. 3 h.8º menor. Tela editorial con sobrecubierta. Muy buen ejemplar, 1ª edición en español. 1st edition. Ejemplo arquetípico de la novela del porvenir. COL2 Ñ.2°.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First printing. Gray covers. 8vo, 459 pages. Name written on the fist free end paper. Pencil mark on the back cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1956 Pan paperback 2nd impression very good clean tight copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Fourth impression, 1960. Ex-library: Kent Education Committee book plate inside front and date label on back free endpaper. DISCARDED stamps on endpapers and other small stamps on reverse of title page but no marks or inscriptions to text. Tape marks on endpapers and back inner flap of dust jacket. The jacket is bright and complete, not price-clipped but with small part of the Discard stamp at edge of front inner flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover stated first printing in tan boards, no dust-jacket, has one-inch lightly stained strip to top front cover, slight wear to corners and spine top and bottom, back hinge beginning to separate though still intact, reinforced long ago with clear tape to half of spine and one inch of back cover (tape probably removable, at your own choice). Not ex-library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 1945 John Lane The Bodley Head London Hardback 1st edition 1st impression. Very good+ clean tight binding in new facsimile dustjacket. No stamps or inscriptions internally clean and bright.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good condition set of the Space Trilogy all clean with original boards. Out of the Silent Planet: Facsimile jacket, professionally repaired brown boards. That Hideous Strength: unclipped dust jacket, two tiny holes in the spine fold, Ex Library copy stamped on the copyright page and the front end paper, signature of previous owner on the front free page dated Sept.'45 ,produced to War Economy Standard, bright dust jacket with slight fading of the spine colour, small internal tape repairs. Perelandra: Faded spine, clipped dust jacket, with chipping and slight loss.

1st ed. thus softback with stiff wrappers Very nice copies octavo 165, 228, 428pp., Small stain to That Hideous Strength o/w a very nice set in a decorated card slip-case as issued.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Powers, Richard (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. First US paperback edition. Originally published in the UK by John Lane The Bodley Head in 1945 and then in the US by The Macmillan Company in 1946. Avon book number T-211. Cover price 35¢. Reading creasing to the spine and along the left hand edge of the front cover. Light edge wear to covers. Previous owner's name in ink to first page, small stain to bottom edges of pages next to the spine and pages browned but otherwise unmarked. Cover art by Richard Powers. First printing.

Good ex-library, some scuffing and edge wear to the boards and a small split to the rear edge of the spine, the book itself has the synopsis from the dust jacket pasted onto the front end papers and library card holder on the rear end paper, but otherwise is in fantastic condition throughout. All our books are second hand and as so may have slight wear, creasing or scuffing. They have each been examined and are complete to the best of our knowledge. If you require more detail on condition, please do not hesitate to contact us for additional photos and description. Please check out our full catalog at vintageandmodernbooks(dot)com and follow us on Instagram @vintageandmodernbooks to see new listings and get exclusive deals. If you wish to buy more items, shipping costs will be reduced.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine.

Soft Cover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 1946 at copyright page; no other dates. Specially abridged by Clive Staples Lewis; many appreciate this heightened and more direct format of his dystopic tale. Classic Avon paperback #T-211 with cosmically colorful cover art on black background; yellow on spine titles on green; and blood red tinted 'satellites' on black at back cover. Original wraps, some cover, edge wear, rub. Pages generally good, moderate discoloration; no writing. Orangish text block at all sides. Bind intact, some cant. Near good complete rarity. Third in the technocratic science fiction dystopian series; preceded by: "Out of the Silent Planet", and "Perelandra". The Tortured Planet, or, That Hideous Strength in extended form, is C. S. Lewis' science fiction masterpiece of a super race dedicated to evil! The Master Plan is a technocratic totalitarian world with science on the rampage! The next step in 'evolution' - a new race endowed with eternal life-giving energy in hope of side-stepping their fate. "From now on, every human being is a candidate for this new species - or its slave - or perhaps its food!" An immoral and diabolic army of 'scientists' in white lab coats, possessed with the ultimate secret of science, planning to use it to subjugate the human race and re-condition it in to a society of ordered, systematic, total sin! "In his usual polished prose, C. S. Lewis creates an elaborate and absurd picture of a war between morality and deviltry." - -The New Yorker. Two pages at back of adverts for other sci-fi titles from Avon. Printed in the U. S. A. 254 pages. Insured post. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Gray cloth on boards with dark titling to spine. Book is tight, square, sharp-cornered and free of major flaws or markings inside and out, other than minor wear to boards. Either VG or perhaps NF in some eyes. Missing the DJ but stated as First Printing on copyright page. Part of the Space Trilogy by Lewis, preceding his Narnia series.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The book is bound in red boards with bright gilt letters on the spine. There is light wear on the spine tips. The contents are clean & unmarked, the binding is tight. States: "First Macmillan hardcover edition 1968". The bright white dust jacket has a crease on the bottom of the front flap. $5.95 on the flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Supplied with a very good facsimile dust jacket with small chips on the ends of the spine. The boards are a touch edge worn but remain otherwise strong and sturdy. Internally, there are no markings or inscriptions, and the pages within are neat. The binding is secure. Presents neatly in cellophane. JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

ix, 459 pp. 8vo, stitched sheets, in plain wrappers. First US edition; advance copy in wrappers. Stitching loose at the beginning of the text block, so that the leaf opposite the title page is separated; small chip to the front wrapper; light dust-soiling. Stamped in blue with the publication date of May 21, 1946, at the head of the title page.

hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. The Bodley Head, London, 1945 Stated First Edition, First printingÂBeautiful clean book with a near fine unclipped dust jacket. This title is the third novel in the C.S.Lewisâs iconic âSpace Trilogyâ, which he referred to as âa modern fairy tale for grown-upsâ The book is in near fine condition with crisp black cloth boards. Faded gilt titles to spine, and a faint hint of rubbing to the boards. The book has sharp corners and no edgewear. The binding is tight and square. The end papers are in clean condition with but the number â1945â delicately placed in ink. Otherwise No owner names, no bookplates, no inscriptions no bookstore stamps. The internal pages are clean, bright and flat with no stains, no marks, no foxing, no writing, and no bent pages. Very clean, crisp book, appearing as unread. This is most unusual for this title as the paper used was cheap wartime paper which tore easily and is very fragile. Please see images. The original dust jacket has benefited from some slight restoration and as such and presents as a near fine example. The jacket has strong vibrant colors with some of the common sunning to the spine, otherwise no edgewear, no rips, no chips, no tears, no rubbing, no fading and no foxing. Archival repair to intact tear to the rear panel. The jacket is NOT price clipped and has a stated price of 9s 6d. net. The jacket is now protected in a new clear removable archival cover. Please see detailed images. Note- most all the other first printings on the market come with a heavily price clipped jacket. This is because the later printings all would state âSecond Printing or Third Printingâ along the lower edge of the front flap.ÂThe only way to ensure you have a first printing jacket is to have it be NOT clipped. A very handsome example of this scarce C.S. Lewis title in beautiful clean collectible condition. ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our store for other important SciFi listing. .

First editions of each volume in C.S. Lewis' important space trilogy including the dedicatee's (Lewis' brother's) copy of Out of the Silent Planet, the rarest book in the series. Octavo, three volumes, original cloth. Inscribed by C.S. Lewis' brother Warren Hamilton Lewis on the front free endpaper to whom the book is dedicated, "This book. Well, speaking as dedicatee I felt that it was up to me to buy it. What's more, I also think that you, as being friendly to us two, should try it. But if you should dislike the tale, Don't say so and thus spoil its sale: Keep quiet! W.H.L. to H.D.P. 10/10/38." The dedicatee, Warren Hamilton Lewis, was a British historian and officer in the British Army. He wrote on French history, and served as his brother's secretary in the later years of C.S. Lewis's life. Lewis referred to his older brother Warren ("Warnie") as "my dearest and closest friend," their lifelong friendship was formed as the boys played together in their home Little Lea, on the outskirts of Belfast, writing and illustrating stories for their created world called "Boxen" (a combination of India and a previous incarnation called "Animal-Land"). In 1908, their mother died from cancer and as their father mourned her, C. S. ("Jack") and Warren Lewis had only each other for comfort and support. Soon after their mother's death, Jack was sent across the North Channel to join Warren at an English boarding school named Wynyard in Watford, Hertfordshire, just northwest of London, where they both endured a harsh headmaster named Robert Capron. Warren had been taken there by his mother Flora on 10 May 1905. In 1909, Warren transferred to Malvern College in Worcestershire and was followed there by his brother a few years later. Each volume is near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. An exceptional set including one of the most important copies of the rarest book in the trilogy. Lewis' Space Trilogy relays the adventures of a philologist named Elwin Ransom, who voyages to Mars, Venus, and finally to earth after discovering that Earth has been exiled from the rest of the Solar System. The trilogy was inspired and influenced by David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus. According to biographer A. N. Wilson, Lewis wrote the novel after a conversation with J.R.R. Tolkien in which both men lamented the state of contemporary fiction. They agreed that Lewis would write a space-travel story, and Tolkien would write a time-travel one. Tolkien's story only exists as a fragment, published in The Lost Road and other writings (1987) edited by his son Christopher.

First Edition. That Hideous Strength, John Lane, 1945, first edition, a near vg copy. Formerly the copy of friend and fellow writer Brian Aldiss with his ownership signature on the f.e.p. along with a 50 word holographic page of notatations laid in. PERELANDRA #3.