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London : Geoffrey Bles, (1950). First edition. Illustrations and colour frontispiece by Pauline Baynes. The first and best-known of the Narnia chronicles.
Post 8vo (198 x 130mm). (174)pp. Coloured frontispiece. Illustrations. Bound, without final blank, in an elegant recent full green morocco, banded and gilt; a few very minor marks and spots, but a very good copy.

£1,250

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London : Geoffrey Bles, (1952). First edition. “There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. His parents called him Eustace Clarence ... They were very up-to-date and advanced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotallers and wore a special kind of underclothes”. The third published (but fifth in chronological sequence) of the Chronicles of Narnia.
Post 8vo (21cm). (224)pp. Endpaper map. Plan. Illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Original pale blue boards, lettered in silver; slight lean; tips a little tanned; a touch bruised; some spotting, mainly of edges and endpapers; a good and sound copy in the Baynes pictorial dust-jacket – a little worn, chipped at extremities, lightly tanned, a little spotted and fingered, but substantially complete. With a neat contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper.

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London : Geoffrey Bles, (1953). First edition. Eustace and Jill in Narnia and the search for Prince Rilian. The fourth published but sixth chronologically of the Chronicles.
Post 8vo (21cm). (218),[ii]pp. Endpaper map. Illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Original dark blue boards, lettered across spine in silver; slight lean; spine unevenly sunned; a touch bruised; slight spotting of edges and endpapers, but a good copy of the scarcest of the Narnia series – in a pictorial Pauline Baynes dust-jacket supplied from a seventh impression – price-clipped, very slightly chipped and with minor strengthening and repair, but clean and substantially complete. Dated contemporary (1953) gift inscription to Carol on half-title.

£500

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London : Geoffrey Bles, (1953). First edition. Eustace and Jill in Narnia and the search for Prince Rilian. The fourth published but the sixth in chronological terms of the series.
Post 8vo (21cm). (218),[ii]pp. Endpaper map. Illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Original blue boards, lettered in silver; just a touch sunned and faintly marked; some spotting of edges and prelims, but a good copy of the scarcest of the Narnia series.

£200

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London : Geoffrey Bles, (1954). First edition. The fifth instalment of “The Chronicles of Narnia” – an “ancient story, which takes us right back to the reign of High King Peter, tells how the Boy and the Horse together escaped from the cruel country of Calormen, through the city of Tashbaan, across the desert, into Archenland, over the mountains, and so at last (with the help of Aslan) to Narnia itself”.
Post 8vo (21cm). (200)pp. Endpaper map. Frontispiece and illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Original grey boards, lettered in silver; spine a little darkened; a few faint marks; endpapers and outer leaves a little tanned; mild spotting to edges and prelims, but a good and sound copy. Small bookseller’s label of Grindley’s of Leigh-on-Sea on rear pastedown.

£200

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London : John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1955. First edition. The sixth instalment of “The Chronicles of Narnia”, taking us back to “the dawn of Narnian time and the day when the Beasts first talked, which was also the first day when people from our world first went to Narnia. It all happened because Diggory’s wicked uncle, who was a magician, sent him to the Wood Between the Worlds”.
Post 8vo (21cm). (184)pp. Illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Original green boards, lettered in silver; covers a little marked and slightly sunned; top edge a little spotted; a few very minor internal marks and spots, but a good and sound copy. Contemporary ownership inscription of Margaret and Mary Gunyon.

£150

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