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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 : 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; some spotting of edges and endpapers, but otherwise a very good copy in the original pictorial Pauline Baynes dust-jacket – lightly rubbed, a touch sunned, and a little spotted on inner flaps and lower panel, but also very good. Neat contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper.

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