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London: Geoffrey Bles [and] The Bodley Head, 1950-1956. [Children's fantasy series] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITIONS, first impressions. Seven volumes. Octavo (21 x 15 x 19cm). With illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Finely bound in recent navy full morocco, with gilt titles to spines, raised bands, marbled endpapers, and all edges gilt. The maps from Prince Caspian, The Horse and His Boy, The Silver Chair, and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader are bound into the preliminaries of those books. Housed in a matching cloth slipcase with ribbon-pull. A touch of light occasional spotting. Faint remains of a washed ink ownership to half-title of 'The Silver Chair'. A small hole to map in 'Prince Caspian.' Otherwise crisp, clean copies in an attractive new leather binding.

Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia is a high fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1951. It was the second-published of seven novels in The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956), although it is volume four in recent editions, which are sequenced according to the novels' internal chronology. In the story, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are transported back to Narnia, where they aid Prince Caspian in his struggle for the throne against his corrupt uncle, King Miraz.