Geoffrey Bles, London, 1950
Stated First Edition, First Printing Lovely near fine clean book with the scarce FIRST printing dust jacket. First book in the Narnia fantasy series. One of the most important titles and series in the genre of children’s literature! This title has become exceedingly difficult to locate in great condition.
The book is in near fine beautiful condition with light blueish/green cloth boards, with the typical toning to the cloth. Silver titles to spine. The book has sharp corners and no edgewear. The binding is tight and square. The end papers are clean with No inscriptions, No bookplates, and No owner names. The internal pages are very clean, with but a tiny faded mark to the top of the frontis illustration, otherwise the internatal pages are remarkably crisp, bright and flat, with No tears, No bent pages, No handling marks, No stains, no foxing and No writing. Beautiful, clean highly collectible example of this title, internally appearing as unread. Please see images.
The very scarce original price clipped first edition, first printing dust jacket has benefited from some restoration by an expert paper conservator and as such presents beautifully. The jacket remains bright and has strong vibrant colors with NONE of the common sunning. Please see detailed images.
A most handsome example of this scarce title in beautiful collectible, clean condition. Would be perfect for the collector of this classic series!
