Geoffrey Bles, London, 1951
Stated First Edition, First Printing Clean fine condition book with a fine/near fine dust jacket, not price-clipped. Prince Caspian is the second book in the Narnia fantasy series after The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. All first state dust jackets points present including “publisher’s ‘blurb’ and price ’10s. 6d. (line break) net’ on the front turn-in, with reviews of The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe to the rear panel, and ‘APTV/10’ printed to the rear turn-in.”
The book is in beautiful fine condition with royal blue cloth boards, with bright unfaded silver titles to spine. The boards have clean cloth and sharp corners with one very tiny tip bump and no edgewear. The binding is tight and square. The end papers are clean with No inscriptions, and No bookplates. The internal pages appear as crisp, clean and unread, with No tears, No bent pages, No handling marks, No stains, no foxing but a few dots to outer page block, and No writing. Beautiful highly collectible example of this title. Please see images.
The scarce original dust jacket has benefited from very very slight restoration to the outer spine tips by an expert paper conservator and as such presents as a fine/near near fine example. The jacket has strong vibrant colors with no rips, no chips, no edgewear, no stains, no fading, and no rubbing. Slight toning to the rear panel and the spine. The jacket is NOT price clipped, and has a stated price of 10s. 6d.net. Please see detailed images.
A superb example of this scarce title in hard to locate collectible condition
