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Lewis, C. S.. The Screwtape Letters. Geoffrey Bles, 1942.
Price: US$6.27 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Backstrip loose. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,250grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Lewis, C. S.. The Screwtape Letters. Geoffrey Bles, 1942.
Price: US$6.30 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: May 1942 printing. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,250grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
C.S.Lewis. The Screwtape Letters. Geoffrey Bles, 1942.
Price: US$12.80 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1942. Reprinted. 160 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth boards with no lettering or spine label. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Minor water staining to bottom edges textblock. Binding remains firm. Gutters somewhat cracked with some exposed netting. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
C. S. Lewis. The Screwtape Letters. Geoffrey Bles, 1942.
Price: US$12.80 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1942. Reprinted. 160 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth with paper title label to spine. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Heavy pencil annotations and marginalia to pages throughout. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and pronounced rubbing and marking to surfaces. Label to spine torn with lettering obscured.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
C. S. Lewis. The Screwtape Letters.. Geoffrey Bles, 1942.
Price: US$12.80 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1942. Reprinted. 160 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth with a paper spine label. Pages are moderately tanned and occasionally foxed throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Pencil mark to rear paste down. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Spine label tanned.Cloth has minor damp and dust stains.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
C.S.Lewis. The Screwtape Letters. Geoffrey Bles, 1942.
Price: US$12.80 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1942. Reprinted. 160 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth boards with lettering. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is darkened. Visible wear marks to boards.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
C S Lewis. The Screwtape Letters. Geoffrey Bles, 1942.
Price: US$40.86 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1942. Reprinted. 160 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth. Ex-Libris plate stuck to front free endpaper. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Dent to top edge of front board. Marking to both boards.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$52.62 + shipping
Description: Good copy in the original paper labeled cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description : 160 p.; 19 cm. Subjects : Subjects : Christian life. Christianity 20th century.Devil. Other names : United Theological College. Theology. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$57.64 + shipping
Description: LONDON : 1942. [ Fourth printing, April 1942. First issued Feb, '42.]. Hardback. Black cloth; printed paper label to spine. No owner name or internal markings. Bright, tight and clean. Printed on the usual 'war economy' paper. Dulling and edge-wear spine label. GOOD. (ix), 160 pages. First published 9 February 1942. Hooper 9. Dedicated to J.R.R. Tolkien. Early reviews say: 'An excellent book, hard-hitting, challenging, provoking. I have marked a dozen passages for quotation' - L.A.G. Strong in The Observer. 'As original as it is brilliant' - The Universe. 'Brilliantly successful' - The Times Literary Supplement. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. 8vo. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, Cumberland, Inklings, Literature, Rarities, Theology and History. ].
Seller: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, United Kingdom
Lewis, C.S.. The Screwtape Letters. Geoffrey Bles, London, 1942.
Price: US$57.64 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Sixth printing. Good hard cover, no jacket, from the collection of Susan Reynolds, a medieval historian, academic and tutor at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Owner has penned FEP. General shelf and handling wear to boards; notable wear to spine head and title label, bumping to corners. Within, pages are securely bound, content is clean. Pencil marks and marginalia remain extant, due to the academic recognition of Susan Reynolds. CN
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$67.60 + shipping
Description: Good copy in the original paper labeled cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description : 160 p.; 19 cm. Subjects : Subjects : Christian life. Christianity 20th century.Devil. Other names : United Theological College. Theology. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
C. S. Lewis. The Screwtape Letters (7th Edition). Geoffrey Bles: The Centenary Press, 1942.
Price: US$105.03 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 7th edition. Boards are clean. Content is clean with spotting and writing on the ffep. Good DJ has chips/tears and toning. Solid binding.
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Price: US$140.90 + shipping
Description: ** SALE ** LONDON : 1942. [ Third printing, March 1942. First published the previous month.]. Hardback. Black cloth; printed paper label to spine. In cream printed dust-jacket; not price-clipped. Neat owner name dated September, 1942. No internal markings. Bright, tight and clean. Printed on the usual 'war economy' paper. Dulling to jacket spine and neat repair to bottom two inches. VERY GOOD INDEED in GOOD jacket; now in a clear protective sleeve. (ix), 160 pages. First published 9 February 1942. Hooper 9. Dedicated to J.R.R. Tolkien. Early reviews say: 'An excellent book, hard-hitting, challenging, provoking. I have marked a dozen passages for quotation' - L.A.G. Strong in The Observer. 'As original as it is brilliant' - The Universe. 'Brilliantly successful' - The Times Literary Supplement. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. 8vo. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, Cumberland, Inklings, Literature, Rarities, Theology and History. ].
Seller: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, United Kingdom
Lewis, C. S.. The Screwtape Letters. LONDON: Geoffrey Bles, 1942.
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: SIXTH EDITION. 8vo: 160pp. In black cloth, with worn and torn dust wrapper. Minor creasing marks on pages 157-160. Former ownership inscription on front endpaper. Minor spotting on endpapers, prelims and edges. Spotting on dust wrapper.
Seller: Westwood Books Sedbergh, Sedbergh, United Kingdom
Lewis, C.S.. THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS. Geoffrey Bles: The Centenary Press, London, 1942.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 160 pages. In Very Good condition, and lacking issued dust jacket. Bound in black cloth with black lettering on spine label. Rubbing along edges. Age-toning to spine label. Age-toning to interior pages. Second printing, with "Reprinted March 1942" on copyright page. Shelved in Case 10. 1376694. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$448.30 + shipping
Description: LONDON : 1942. [ Seventh printing, August 1942. First issued Feb, '42.]. Hardback. Black cloth; printed paper label to spine. In cream printed dust-jacket; price-clipped. No owner name or internal markings. Bright, tight and clean. Printed on the usual 'war economy' paper. Minor wear only. VERY GOOD INDEED in like jacket; now in a clear protective sleeve. (ix), 160 pages. First published 9 February 1942. Hooper 9. Dedicated to J.R.R. Tolkien. Early reviews say: 'An excellent book, hard-hitting, challenging, provoking. I have marked a dozen passages for quotation' - L.A.G. Strong in The Observer. 'As original as it is brilliant' - The Universe. 'Brilliantly successful' - The Times Literary Supplement. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. 8vo. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, Cumberland, Inklings, Literature, Rarities, Theology and History. ].
Seller: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, United Kingdom
C S Lewis. The Screwtape Letters. Geoffrey Bles, London, 1942.
Price: US$1280.86 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Neat previous owners name to FFEP. Lacking the DJ. Avery good tight copy. Label to spine with some loss but still legible. A rare first printing of the title that propelled Lewis to fame leading to his appearance on the cover of Time magazine.
Seller: No. 5 Rare Books, Caistor, United Kingdom
Lewis, C.S.. The Screwtape Letters', UK first edition. Geoffrey Bles, 1942.
Price: US$1280.86 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Clive Staples Lewis (1942) The Screwtape Letters, UK first edition, first printing, published by Geoffrey Bles. Condition: a near fine copy with minimal shelf wear. The paper label on the spine is nice and not torn as often seen. Boards are square and clean. Triffle rubbing to spine tips. There is a contemporary previous owners name in black in on ffep dated 20th April 1942. The gift inscription below date 2008 in in light pencil and can be erased. The original dust jacket is NOT present and would add a four figure sum to the price. The Screwtape Letters, a Christian apologetic novel, is one of Lewiss best loved books apart form the Narniad and the Space Trilogy (aka Ranson Trilogy). It is dedicated to J.R.R. Tolkien cementing the two Oxonians frienship (Lewis and Tolkien also started a joint project called Language and Human Nature which, however, was never finished). First and Fine
Seller: First and Fine, Birmingham, United Kingdom
C S Lewis. The Screwtape Letters. Geoffrey Bles, London, 1942.
Price: US$1408.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Neat previous owners name to FFEP. Lacking the DJ. Avery good tight copy. Label to spine largely intact. A rare first printing of the title that propelled Lewis to fame leading to his appearance on the cover of Time magazine.
Seller: No. 5 Rare Books, Caistor, United Kingdom
Price: US$5763.89 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A beautiful example of the second printing of the true first edition, published just a month after the first printing, in March 1942. The book was first published in February 1942, and became something of a bestseller, eventually going into many further reprintings during the 1940s. The cream printed dustwrapper design was eventually replaced by a newly designed dark-blue dustwrapper with around the 13th printing in 1944. With a two-page preface by C. S. Lewis written July 5th, 1941 to the fore. ***A near fine copy in black cloth-covered boards with a paper label to the spine. The boards are beautifully clean and undamaged, having been protected by the dustwrapper since 1942. The paper label is also beautifully clean, complete without any damage. The fragile cloth of the spine is undamaged. The boards are thin as they had to conform to wartime publishing restrictions, and this copy has absolutely straight boards with no warping or reading lean. No tears to the cloth. Corners sharp. Edges of page block clean. Internally the book is also near fine, with a neat ownership name at the top of the front free endpaper. The wartime paper is very clean, and still white, and there is none of the usual foxing or offsetting to the pastedowns. There is a small production fault at the bottom edge of pp.122-3 where the edge was slightly uncut with a very small tear. Spine tight. ***In a near fine original printed dustwrapper, which correctly states 'Second Edition' at the top of the front flap, and which has had the printed price neatly clipped from the bottom corner of the front flap. The dustwrapper is the most complete example from this period that we have come across, with just the slightest of nibbling loss at the head and tail of the spine, and a very small pinhole to the spine. The dustwrapper is only slightly darkened with age, mainly at the spine. No other loss or damage. Virtually no creasing. Hardly any other wear to the panels and foldovers, which are very clean. A remarkably complete dustwrapper. ***190mm x130mm. 160 pages. ***'In this witty and profound book Mr. Lewis has written the most vital restatement of religious truths produced in our time, and he has found a brilliantly original form in which to do it. At every point these letters reveal a penetrating understanding of good and evil, and I do not hesitate to compare Mr. Lewis's achievement with "Pilgrim's progress."' W. J. Turner in The Spectator. ***'Brilliantly successful.' Times Lit. Supp. (Review quotes taken from the inside front flap of the dustwrapper). ***A rare second printing (published just a month after the first printing) in the original and complete printed dustwrapper. A fragile 1942 wartime book with thin boards and a very fragile thin dustwrapper. A really beautiful early copy of one of C. S. Lewis's most sought after works. This delicate book is now over eighty years old, and copies in complete dustwrappers are extremely hard to find now. Copies in dustwrappers in such near fine condition are almost impossible to find, as the wartime dustwrapper is so thin. The best and earliest copy of this landmark work that we have had the pleasure to handle. A real collector's item. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom