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C S Lewis. The Silver Chair. Geoffrey Bles, London, 1959.
Price: US$28.74 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1959. 3rd impression. 217 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with silver titles to spine. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes. Map endpapers. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Pencil inscriptions to pastedowns. Small bookseller's stamp to rear pastedown. Boards have been moderately rub worn. Noticeable shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped. Spine ends are crushed, with noticeable chips and a large open split to upper front joint. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Water stains to boards and spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
LEWIS, C.S.. The Horse and His Boy. Geoffrey Bles, London, 1959.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Grey papered boards titled in silver on spine, front endpaper illustrations and b&w drawings by Pauline Baynes. Tight and square, small code # on front board, light foxing in prelims and last text page, prize plate adhered to half-title, clean pages.
Seller: Mainly Fiction, Auckland, New Zealand
Lewis, C.S.. The Silver Chair. Geoffrey Bles, 1959.
Price: US$194.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Geoffrey Bles 1959, reprint of the first edition. Hardcover with tight binding. Condition: Very Good. Clean and bright text. Includes a dust jacket, price unclipped, in fair and damaged condition. Fine illustrations. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING
Seller: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, United Kingdom
Lewis, C.S.. The Silver Chair. Geoffrey Bles, London, 1959.
Price: US$224.47 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover without dust jacket in good condition. Board edges, corners and spine ends are bumped, and spine is sunned. Page block is tanned, and spine is cocked. Some pages have a few small marks. The pages, illustrations and text are otherwise clear and bright throughout. LW
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
C. S. Lewis. The Silver Chair. Geoffrey Bles, London, 1959.
Price: US$891.46 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A lovely copy of the fourth work from the renowned Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis and illustrated by Pauline Baynes. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper.The third impression of the work. First published in 1953.Beautifully illustrated by Pauline Baynes with a frontispiece, full page illustrations and vignettes throughout.Map design to the front end papers.This classic work is the fourth title in the Chronicles of Narnia series and was written by renowned author C. S. Lewis. The Chronicles of Narnia series has been a well loved classic amongst children and adults alike. The Silver Chair follows the story of Jill and Eustace as they visit the magical world of Narnia and embark upon an extraordinary adventure. This work features the vibrant original publisher's dust wrapper in great condition and beautiful monochrome illustrations by the talented Pauline Baynes who also created artwork for C. S. Lewis's close friend J. R. R. Tolkien. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely. The wrap is very smart with only the odd mark, the odd minor chip and slight sunning to the spine. Internally firmly bound with clean and bright pages. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$4168.69 + shipping
Description: First paperback editions, first printings. Published by Puffin in London, 1959-65. This is a near fine set. Each title is in markedly similar condition, with only slight points to note amongst them. Each cover is slightly worn at the extremities, with some light foxing to the prelims, text blocks and covers. The first title, 'The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe' has one neat previous owners inscription on the front fly leaf in orange ink. The second title, 'Prince Caspian' has a medium previous owners name in blue ink to the copyright page. 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader' is free from inscriptions and 'The Silver Chair' is also free. The fifth title 'The Horse and His Boy' is the brightest copy in the collection, also free from inscriptions. 'The Magician's Nephew' is internally clean and though 'The Last Battle' has a light crease to the front panel, it is also internally clean. Collectively, the spines are free from foxing though the third title has some spotting throughout it. The covers are bright and the spines, though with very slight creasing, feel tight and intact. Overall, this is a near fine set of some increasingly rare paperbacks. To our knowledge, this is the first first edition paperback set to appear in its entirety. Housed in a custom made box with marbled internals. A seminal work of children's literary fiction in seven volumes. Originally published between 1950 and 1956 by The Bodley Head and Geoffrey Bles. Peppered with allegory, this chronicle was adapted to the screen first in 1967, and most famously, in 2005 by Walt Disney Pictures. C. S. Lewis famously stated: "They'd be no good on TV. Humanised beasts can't be presented to the eye without at once becoming either hideous or ridiculous. I wish the idiots who run the film world [would] realize that there are stories which are for the ear alone."
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom