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Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A first edition of That Hideous Strength with no dust jacket. Original black boards with faded gilt lettering, edge wear and a dent on the upper board. Bumped corners and cloth tear on one spine corner. Booksellers stamp and two dated signatures. Browned contents in good condition. 8vo 476pp.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
C S Lewis. That Hideous Strength. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1945.
Price: US$250.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Lacking the DJ and with previous owners address to the rear of the front board crossed out and updated. otherwise no other marks or inscriptions. Slight spine lean.
Seller: No. 5 Rare Books, Caistor, United Kingdom
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.476. Publishers black cloth, titles in gilt to spine. Internally clean, some toning to edges. Cloth a little rubbed and worn with some marks to boards, titles to spine mostly faded. Very good. The third title in The Space Trilogy.
Seller: Benedict Wilson Books, Tonbridge, KENT, United Kingdom
Lewis, C. S.. That Hideous Strength. John Lane, 1945.
Price: US$522.00 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$596.08 + shipping
Description: First edition, octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 476pp, VG (light staining to boards, slight rubbing to spine extrems, some bruising to board corners, light tanning) in d/w, G+ (4cm x 6cm portion of lower spine/front missing, 2cm portion of upper spine extrem missing, sellotape repair to rear/spine fold, tears with loss to corners, moderately heavy browning, price clipped)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK Edition. A very good plus copy of the third book in Lewis' Ransom Trilogy. Book would be fine except for bumping to base of spine and minor bumping to the two lower tips. The price clipped dust jacket is complete with two small tears on bottom of rear panel and one closed tear at base of front fold. and edge wear and minor chipping at top and base of spine with small tape repair. Clean, tight copy with no internal markings or spotting (very rare in this book). First edition, first printing with the Statement "First Published 1945" on the copyright page with no other references to other printings. This is an unusually lovely copy of a scarce British First Edition. This is a comprehensive description of a very good copy, indeed.
Seller: Arthur Harry Fine Books, MISSISSAUGA, ON, Canada
Price: US$1129.27 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good condition copy of That Hideous Strength with an unclipped dust jacket. Original black cloth boards with minimal wear. Two tiny holes in the spine fold. Light bumping of the spine ends and corners. Ex Library copy stamped on the copyright page and the front end paper. Slight lean to the book. Signature of previous owner on the front free page dated Sept.'45. Produced to War Economy Standard. Clean contents and end papers. The dust jacket is bright with slight fading of the spine colour. Loss to the spine and fold ends with a few small internal tape repairs.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$6416.33 + shipping
Description: [Science Fiction] COMPLETE FIRST EDITIONS, First Impressions. Three volumes. Octavo (20 x 13 x 10cm), pp.xii; 264 [6]; pp.256; pp.476 [2]. Recently re-bound in green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spines, matching cloth over boards, and top edges gilt. Other edges gently trimmed. Presented in a matching fleece-lined cloth-covered slipcase with a ribbon-pull. Occasional spotting, otherwise crisp, clean copies presented in an attractive new leather binding. An exceedingly rare Science Fiction trilogy (subtitled 'A Modern Fairy-Tale for Grown-Ups' to 'That Hideous Strength), preceding Lewis' more famous Christian allegory, The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-56).
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
C. S. Lewis. That Hideous Strength (signed first edition). John Lane The Bodley Head, 1945.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: SIGNED FIRST EDITION. This is the third book in Lewis' cosmic trilogy and he acknowledges debt to Olaf Stapledon. Lewis considered it a book fiction that correlated to his nonfiction book Abolition of Man. This story takes place on earth and thus some people are reluctant to call this trilogy by Lewis a "space" trilogy. Brown 31. Hooper 16. Black cloth boards with gilt text on the spine. 476 pp. Artistic dust wrapper with yellow text. The book is near fine with a bit of dust foxing on the top and fore edges. The wrapper is VG+ with some wrinkling at the bottom of the back cover. Full refund if not satisfied. Shelley and Son Books specializes in C.S.Lewis, J.R.R.Tolkien & the Inklings.
Seller: Shelley and Son Books (IOBA), Hendersonville, NC, U.S.A.
Lewis, C.S. That Hideous Strength.. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1945.
Price: US$30000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the final novel in Lewis' acclaimed Space Trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by C.S. Lewis to fellow writer and journalist George Orwell and his wife (Eric and Eileen Blair) on the front free endpaper, "To the Blairs, with kind regards, C.S. Lewis Aug. 1945." This is the review copy used in George Orwell's literary review of the book which was published in the Manchester Evening News on August 16th 1945. Also with three hand-corrections to the text in Lewis' hand which he made in all review copies before personally sending to critics.ÂAlthough Lewis and Orwell were not close friends, both were employed as radio journalists by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) during WWII, an era that transformed both religious broadcasting (in which Lewis became a primary figure) and war correspondence (Orwellâs experience as a correspondent working out of the basement of the BBC during wartime was a major inspiration for his masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four). Very good in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morrocco clamshell box. A remarkable association. According to biographer A. N. Wilson, Lewis began The Space Trilogy 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. â[Lewisâs] book describes the struggle of a little group of sane people against a nightmare that nearly conquers the world. A company of mad scientists â" or, perhaps, they are not mad, but have merely destroyed in themselves all human feeling, all notion of good and evil â" are plotting to conquer Britain, then the whole planet, and then other planets, until they have brought the universe under their control. All superfluous life is to be wiped out, all natural forces tamed, the common people are to be used as slaves and vivisection subjects by the ruling caste of scientists, who even see their way to conferring immortal life upon themselves. Man, in short, is to storm the heavens and overthrow the gods, or even to become a god himself â" George Orwell, Manchester Evening News, 1945.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.