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Lewis, C. S.. THE GREAT DIVORCE - A DREAM. [FIRST EDITION]. Geoffrey Bles. 1945, 1945.
Price: US$25.67 + shipping
Description: First edition hardback, no dustjacket. The binding has some light wear, it is sound. The pastedown has an owner's bookplate. There is a touch of light edge foxing to the text which is otherwise very clean. 228 Pages.
Seller: Gage Postal Books, Westcliff-on-Sea, United Kingdom
C. S. Lewis. The Great Divorce, A Dream. Geoffrey Bles, 1945.
Price: US$27.36 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1945. First Edition. 118 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow cloth with black lettering. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal foxing to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's name to front endpaper. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with tanning to spine. Moderate stain spotting and soiling to boards.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
LEWIS, C. S.. The Great Divorce - A Dream.. Geoffrey Bles.The Centenary Press. London, 1945.
Price: US$32.08 + shipping
Description: pp. 118. Original cloth with small ink blot on rear cover, otherwise a very good copy without dust wrapper.
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom
C S Lewis. The Great Divorce; A Dream. Geoffrey Bles, 1945.
Price: US$34.32 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1945. Geoffrey Bles. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE Black titles, yellow cloth boards. 8x5
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Lewis, C.S.. The Great Divorce: A Dream. Geoffrey Bles, 1945.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Name of the previous owner. Publication of 118 pages. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. There are minor pen markings within the book, the text remains normal. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Lewis, C S. The Great Divorce : A Dream. Geoffrey Bles: The Centenary Press, London, 1945.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small stamp mark of the previous owners name. Publication of 116 pages. The Boards are a little shelf rubbed and minor marks. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text remains legible. R* GK 2023/04/06. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
C S Lewis. The Great Divorce. Geoffrey Bles, London, 1945.
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original yellow cloth. Neat bookplate to the rear of the front board. Otherwise no marks or inscriptions internally. Near Fine. With the original DJ which is not price clipped but is missing the spine.
Seller: No. 5 Rare Books, Caistor, United Kingdom
C S Lewis. The Great Divorce - A Dream. Geoffrey Bles: The Centenary Press, 1945.
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1945. First Edition. 118 pages. Brown dust jacket over yellow cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Thumb-marking and slight black markings present to rear free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Very slight crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped jacket, priced 7s 6d, has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Pronounced tear to spine. Wear marks overall.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$120.63 + shipping
Description: Sm. 8vo., First Edition; original yellow cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Hooper 17.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Lewis, C. S.. The Great Divorce : A Dream. Geoffrey Bles : The Centenary Press 1945, London, 1945.
Price: US$121.91 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. 118 pp. Publisher's yellow cloth with red title panel to spine in jacket, not price clipped. Jacket is edgeworn and has significant loss to spine and top of front panel, with a few marks, wear to joints and a sticker to front panel - but still together. Boards clean. Internally clean and bright, with no ownership marks. This UK first edition was published the year before the US version. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
LEWIS, C.S. (1898-1963). The Great Divorce. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1945, 1945.
Price: US$224.57 + shipping
Description: [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.117; [1]. Publisher's light yellow cloth with red label lettered in black to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 5s 6d to front flap. Previous owner's inscription in black ink to flyleaf, light spotting to endpapers, rolling to spine, 3 x 2cm chip to bottom of jacket, chipping to edges of jacket. very good. This novel follows a day-trip on an omnibus from Hell to Heaven. Lewis uses this unusual excursion to reflect on the Christian conception of Heaven and Hell.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
C S Lewis. The Great Divorce. Geoffrey Bles, London, 1945.
Price: US$256.65 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A near fine copy in a good DJ with loss to the spine. Not Price clipped with a previous owners name to the FFEP.
Seller: No. 5 Rare Books, Caistor, United Kingdom
Lewis, C. S.. The Great Divorce: A Dream. Geoffrey Bles, London, 1945.
Price: US$314.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good tight clean unmarked copy, slight dinge affecting bottom corner of rear cover, small tear to wrapper at top of spine, light wear elsewhere, not price clipped, see photos.
Seller: The Bookstore, Belfast, United Kingdom
Lewis, C. S.. The Great Divorce : A Dream. Geoffrey Bles : The Centenary Press 1945, London, 1945.
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. 118 pp. Rebound in green quarter morocco binding with green cloth boards, gilt lettering and details to the spine and red title label. Spotting to the fore edge, otherwise clean. Small 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
C S Lewis. The Great Divorce. Geoffrey Bles, London, 1945.
Price: US$384.98 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A near fine copy in a good DJ with loss to the spine. Not Price clipped and with no marks or inscriptions internally.
Seller: No. 5 Rare Books, Caistor, United Kingdom
Lewis, C. S.. The Great Divorce : A Dream. Geoffrey Bles : The Centenary Press 1945, London, 1945.
Price: US$384.98 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. 118 pp. Recent half tan morocco over marbled boards with raised bands, red title label, gilt-stamped devices and lettering to spine. Scattered light marks occasionally within and to fore-edge, otherwise internally clean. Small 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
LEWIS, C. S.. The Great Divorce. Geoffrey Bles, London, 1945.
Price: US$481.22 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: ~First edition. Yellow cloth, red and black title to spine. With scarce original dustwrapper, slightly edgeworn with miniscule loss at ends spine. Spine of dustwrapper slightly tone and with very small splash stain; also price-clipped, but protected in removable clear plastic sleeve. No foxing to endpapers or dustwrapper. Owner's signature in purple ink to inside front board: 'D.E. Bailey Xmas 1946 R.91' Given that this is a wartime economy production, in remarkable condition. First edition of Lewis' classic dream vision. ~Robust packaging. All UK orders with tracking, overseas tracking available on request. Size: 118pp
Seller: St Philip's Books, P.B.F.A., B.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
C. S. LEWIS. THE GREAT DIVORCE A DREAM. GEOFFREY BLES, LONDON, 1945.
Price: US$615.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST IMPRESSION. HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING WITH THE ORIGINAL UNPRICE CLIPPED DUST JACKET, HALF TITLE PRESENT. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES WITH 118 PAGES. MINOR CHIPPING TO JACKET AT TOP & BOTTOM OF SPINE WITH A COUPLE OF VERY SMALL CLOSED TEARS, FEW MINOR MARKS TO SPINE OF JACKET & REAR OF JACKET, FOXING TO INSIDE OF JACKET BUT OVERALL THE BOOK IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH NO MAJOR FAULTS, DUST JACKET IS VERY GOOD PLUS. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JACKET HAS A CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING THAT MAY SHOW SOME REFLECTIONS IN IMAGES. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Lewis, C.S. The Great Divorce.. Geoffrey Bles: The Centenary Press, London, 1945.
Price: US$40000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the author's allegorical tale about a bus ride from Hell to Heaven. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper with a pre-publication appearance of his 5-stanza autograph poem, The Meteorite, "The Meteorite Among the hills the meteorite Lies huge; and moss has overgrown, And wind and rain with fingers light Made soft the contours of the stone. Thus easily can Earth digest A cinder of sidereal fire, And make her translunary guest The native of the English shire. Nor is it strange these wanderers Find in her lap their fitting place, Since every particle that's hers came at the first from outer space. All that is Earth has once been sky; Down from the sun of old she came, Or from a star that travelled by Too close to his entangling flame. Hence, if belated drops still fall From heaven, on these her plastic power Still works as once is works on all the first rush of the golden shower. C.S. Lewis June 1946. Sorry it is so smudgy but the paper is like blotting-paper!" The Meteorite was first published in the December 7, 1946 issue of Time and Tide Magazine. The following year, Lewis included it as the the epigraph in his book Miracles, published in 1947. It subsequently appeared in multiple printings of his Poems and Collected Poems. The version of the poem here contains a few differences to those found in print and indicates that Lewis continued to tinker with the poem after publication. Near fine in a very good supplied dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Exceedingly rare with such a lengthy presentation from Lewis. In The Great Divorce, C. S. Lewis again employs his formidable talent for fable and allegory. The writer finds himself in Hell boarding a bus bound for Heaven. The amazing opportunity is that anyone who wants to stay in Heaven, can. This is the starting point for an extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, grace and judgment. Lewis's revolutionary idea is the discovery that the gates of Hell are locked from the inside. In Lewis's own words, "If we insist on keeping Hell (or even earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell." âMuch deserves to be quoted. attractive imagery, amusing satire, exciting speculations. Lewis rouses curiosity about life after death only to sharpen awareness of this worldâ (Guardian).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.