"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C. S. Lewis

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd., 1933. FIRST EDITION. Large octavo. Publisher's orange cloth hardcover, blocked in black, illustrated endpapers, blue topstain, in original dust-wrapper. Coloured frontispiece and full page and in text line drawings throughout. Some edge-spotting to heavy paper, sunned to spine beneath wrapper, some chips/loss to extremities, sticker pull to spine panel (price unaffected). Overall a very good copy of an exceptionally scarce book in jacket; the first copy we have offered in 25 years. Item #48892
Price: £2,500.00 save 50% £1,250.00