"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
See below our stock of C. S. Lewis First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1954. [Fantasy] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.199; [3], blank. With numerous in-text and full-page illustrations by Baynes including a frontispiece. Publisher's light grey cloth, silver titles to spine, cartographic design as front endpaper. With correct dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. Contents clean, no inscriptions..... More
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1955. [Fantasy] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.183; [1]. With numerous in-text and full-page illustrations by Baynes including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth, silver titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Baynes, priced at 8/6. Contents clean and fresh, edges of text..... More
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1964. [Spirituality] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.159; [1], blank. Publisher's green cloth with green endpapers, top edge black, typographic dust-jacket designed by Michael Harvey, priced at 12/6. Book is clean and fresh, jacket toned to spine, light wear, some small tears, rubs etc...... More
London: Centenary Press, 1943. [Christian Morality] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.64. Publisher's bright orange cloth in bottle green dust-wrapper priced at 2/6. Contents clean, no inscriptions. Slightly dusty, jacket toned to spine and rear panel, small chip at foot of spine. Typical wartime economy issue; generally..... More
London: The Bodley Head, 1956. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.184. Publisher's light blue cloth, titles in silver to spine, pictorial dust-jacket priced 9/6 designed by Baynes, who also contributes numerous in-text line drawings. Contents clean, no inscriptions, edges of text block a little dusty/toned..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1945. [Literary history] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 696. Publisher's black cloth hardcovers titled in gilt to the spine. Typographic dust-wrapper. Discreet ink initial to endpaper otherwise clean within. Jacket with a few nicks at spine ends, spine slightly rubbed and toned..... More
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1960. [Spirituality] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.160. Publisher's grey cloth with red titles to spine. Orange endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Michael Harvey. Black ink gift inscription to fly-leaf, heavy spotting to edges, and some offsetting to endpapers; otherwise internally clean. Light..... More
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1945. [Fantasy novel] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.476. Publisher's black cloth hardcovers. A used copy with edges toned, contents generally clean, discreet owner name, damp stain to rear gutter (not affecting any text leaves), binding is rather tired (without the..... More
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1962. [Literary Criticism and essays] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.211 [1]. Publisher's tan paper over boards with navy titles to spine and light blue endpapers. With the typographic dust-jacket designed by Michael Harvey. No inscriptions, edges of text block spotted/toned, jacket lightly handled..... More
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1969. [Contemplation] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.178. Publisher's black cloth, titles in silver on light blue label, pale blue endpapers, top edge tinted dark blue, in typographic dust-jacket with printed price 25s to flap. A bright, pleasing copy in jacket, but for a...... More
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1961. [Contemplation] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.151; [1], blank. Publisher's burgundy cloth titled in gilt, typographic dust-jacket with printed price 12/6 to flap. Top edge blue. Contents clean, edges dusty, no inscriptions, jacket a little nicked at extremities. A book of thoughts, from..... More