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Lewis, C S. A Grief Observed. Faber & Faber, 1961.

Price: US$6.06 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:

Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom

Lewis, C. S.. A Grief Observed. Faber & Faber, 1961.

Price: US$73.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.2

Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.

Lewis, C. S.. A Grief Observed. Faber & Faber, 1961.

Price: US$73.50 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.2

Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.

CLERK, Nat Whilk. [ C.S. LEWIS (29 November 1898 - 22 November 1963) ]. A Grief Observed. By N. W. Clerk. LONDON : 1961.. Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1961.

Price: US$285.90 + shipping

Description: LONDON : 1961. [ First printing 29 September 1961.]. Hardback. Grey cloth; gilt lettered spine. Book bright, tight and clean. Neat contemporary owner name to fly-leaf. No internal markings. Usual slight browning to end-papers. VERY GOOD INDEED. 60 pages. See Hooper 36. Jacket not price-clipped - priced at 8s6d -The U.S.A. edition appeared 14 February 1963. It was re-issued under the author's own name in 1964 and in paperback in 1966. Previously published under this pseudonym N.W. Clerk (for Nat Whilk - Anglo-Saxon for 'I know not whom' and Clerk meaning a scholar or writer). Written in the days immediately following the death of Lewis's wife Joy in July. During the summer Lewis showed the manuscript to his friend Roger Lancelyn Green. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. 8vo. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ]. PayPal Accepted. SCARCE.

Seller: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, United Kingdom

C.S.LEWIS (writing as 'N.W.Clerk').. A Grief Observed.. Faber, London, 1961.

Price: US$324.89 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition (first printing) of this pseudonymous collection of reflections on grief written by Lewis following the death of his wife Joy Davidman in 1960 (Davidman is referred to throughout as 'H' - her seldom used first name being Helen). Slim 8vo. 60pp. Grey cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Edges very lightly spotted, with some further spotting and quite noticeable partial browning to the free endpapers. Presentation inscription from Vernon Watkins to his wife Gwen [Gwendoline Watkins, née Davies] to the head of the front free endpaper: "To Gwen with love from Vernon (Christmas 1963)". A very good copy in fair dust wrapper, which is non-price-clipped but soiled and a little spotted, with a three-inch area of loss from the base of the spine panel, a little further loss from the head, and several further tiny fractions from the corner tips. Quite uncommon, and nicely enhanced by Watkins' contemporary presentation inscription, although the wrapper could be nicer.

Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom

Clerk, N.W. (C.S. Lewis). A Grief Observed. Faber & Faber, London, 1961.

Price: US$383.37 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: C.S. Lewis published under pseudonym N.W. Clerk. Hardcover without dust jacket in very good condition. Page block, pastedown and endpapers are discoloured. The pages and text are otherwise clear and unmarked throughout. LW

Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom

CLERK, N. W / LEWIS, C. S.:. A Grief Observed. Faber & Faber 1961 1st edition, 1961.

Price: US$708.25 + shipping

Description: Size 5.5 x 8 inches. In grey cloth with gilt to spine and original thick paper dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwraper. (d/w. Spine slightly darkened. A few foxing spots. Not price clipped. Publisher?s note pasted to front fly leaf. With protective plastic wrap). Some browning to endpapers. Else a very clean and tight copy. 60 pp. A series of reflections by a husband on the death of his wife. He probes his own feelings and reveals his thoughts with relentless honesty. The publisher?s note reveals the author tobe C.S.Lewis writing under a pseudonym. rare first edition.

Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom

N W Clerk (C S Lewis). A Grief Observed. Faber & Faber, London, 1961.

Price: US$714.75 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Original Grey cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Partial browning to endpapers. Neat previous owners bookplate otherwise an excellent copy in a very good dust jacket with a couple of tiny chips to the head and tail of the spine panel. Lewis wrote these pieces as reflection on the death of his wife and published them anonymously. The book was successful and a couple of years later was issued under the authors own name. Copies of the first printing as here are uncommon.

Seller: No. 5 Rare Books, Caistor, United Kingdom

N.W. Clerk [C.S. Lewis]. A Grief Observed. Faber and Faber, London, 1961.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover. First Edition. Offsetting to endpapers, else a very good hardback in a slightly tanned, unclipped [8s 6d] jacket that has a tiny chip to the head of the spine and some very minor loss to the top corners at the flaps. A much nicer than usually encountered example. Lewis' pseudonymously published reflections on grief written months after his wife's death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moments'.

Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller ABAA, Decatur, GA, U.S.A.

N. W. Clerk [C. S. Lewis]. A Grief Observed. Faber & Faber, London, 1961.

Price: US$903.18 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: An exceptionally lovely first edition of C. S. Lewis's pseudonymously published 'map of sorrow' following the death of his wife. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Published under the pseudonym N. W. Clerk, this incredibly intimate work collects C. S. Lewis's thoughts and feelings following the death of his beloved wife, Joy Davidman.Published the year after her death, the work collects excerpts from his journals that document his scattered impressions and thoughts following the loss, recording his continuously-evolving state of mind.Published by T.S. Eliot at Faber, the use of a pseudonym worked, and Lewis's anonymity was maintained until the year of his death.With the inscription of Morris Venables to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Former owner's inscription to the head of the front free endpaper. Light offsetting to endpapers. Dust wrapper back strip lightly age toned, with a minor rub over the front joint. Small mark to head of wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Clerk, N. W. [C. S. Lewis]. A GRIEF OBSERVED. Faber & Faber, 1961.

Price: US$935.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: [6], 60 pp. First Edition, First printing. Heather Grey cloth, gilt spine lettering. Endpapers toned beyond the DJ flap, exceedingly clean and sharp otherwise. DJ spine and rear extremities a bit toned, a few trivial scuffs to spine, very crisp and clean otherwise with price of 8s 6d intact. An excellent copy of Lewis's 'Map of Sorrow.' [Brown, 73] Following the death of Joy Davidman, his wife of three years, C. S. Lewis holed up at his Oxford home, 'The Kilns' and sought 'to make a map of sorrow' on four small notebooks laying around the house. The result was 'a raw, choppy assemblage of about 120 jottings, ranging from a line to a page or more, largely stripped of literary effects, tracking the contours of his grief over the first few weeks of bereavement.' First published with 1961 by T. S. Eliot at Faber, the privacy afforded by a pseudonym was broadly effective for years following, largely because these raw, staccato laments were such a stark departure from anything Lewis had written.

Seller: Arches Bookhouse, Portland, OR, U.S.A.