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The Screwtape Letters.
by Lewis (C.S.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Saunders, (1945). First Canadian edition.. Green cloth, spine lettered in gilt within a gilt frame. 160pp. Ownership signature on the front end paper, dated Montreal, October 1945. A nice clean copy in a slightly worn dust jacket, the spine of the jacket darkened and with some light chipping to edges, a short tear along the lower rear fold. The copyright page states: "First Canadian Edition / May 1945". The dust jacket of this edition is based upon that of the first American (Macmillan) edition of 1943, with no imprint at the bottom of the front panel, and a description of the book on the rear panel. The jacket corners are not clipped, and the jacket bears no price. Really quite a nice copy of the first Canadian Edition, issued three years after the 1942 English first edition. Dedicated to J.R.R. Tolkien. Not so common in the jacket. Not mentioned by Brown in his "In Pursuit of C.S. Lewis ....".
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Details
- Bookseller
- William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57142
- Title
- The Screwtape Letters.
- Author
- Lewis (C.S.)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Toronto: Saunders, (1945). First Canadian edition.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Litold;
Terms of Sale
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Prices are in US Dollars. Books are guaranteed to be as described. Books may be returned within a reasonable length of time. Paypal Payments are made to: bill@rainbownorth.com
About the Seller
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Biblio member since 2004
Sidney, British Columbia
About William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Established 1976. Open shop in Victoria BC, Open Wed-Sun 11-5. Specialists in weird, fantastic, supernatural,utopian, interplanetary, science fiction and lost race fiction; also rare books, literary first editions, poetry broadsides. Antiquarian maps, charts, views, prints, engravings.
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Copyright page
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
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- First Edition
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