Lot 92 , Lewis, Clive Staples - The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, 1st reprint, illustrated by Pauline Baynes,
Lewis, Clive Staples - The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, 1st reprint, illustrated by Pauline Baynes, in price clipped d.j., with tears, with bookplate to inner endpaper, London 1954
Estimate £80-120
Internally good.
The dustwrapper is chipped at the edges with some losses and small tears and with foxing verso. No evidence of tape to verso of wrapper. Minus the jacket there is discolouration to each end of the spine. The spine has a forward slant and there is a slight warp to the boards.
Book plate to front paper with slight foxing to front and end papers and edges of pages.
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Sold for £120