"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka
C. S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis) | First Editions
1898 - 1963
See below our stock of C. S. Lewis First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
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The Horse and His Boy. A Story for Children. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes.
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
The Magician's Nephew.
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
Letters to Malcolm Chiefly on Prayer.
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
Christian Behaviour. A Further Series of Broadcast Talks. Author of The Screwtape Letters and The Problem of Pain.
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
The Last Battle. A Story for Children.
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
English Literature in the Seventeenth Century. Excluding Drama. The Completion of The Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1944.
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
That Hideous Strength. A Modern Fairy Tale for Grown Ups.
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
Till We Have Faces. A Myth Retold.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1956. [Greek Mythology] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.320. Elegantly hand-bound in navy blue half calf, with traditional raised bands, titled in gilt to spine, marbled paper over boards, publisher's original cloth spine bound in at rear. Contents are clean, exterior as new..... More
Narrative Poems.
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
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