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First edition, first impression, of the seventh and final book in the Narnia series, which won the Library Association's Carnegie Medal in 1956. Octavo. Original blue boards, spine lettered in silver. With dust jacket. Jacket design and illustrations to the text by Pauline Baynes. Boards lightly bumped, edges and endpapers slightly foxed; jacket spine lightly toned, light foxing to rear panel and flaps, otherwise bright and unclipped: a near-fine copy in near-fine dust jacket.

The Last Battle is the seventh and final novel in the Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis. The plot involves the characters endeavoring to defend Narnia from an invasion led by a deceptive ape named Shift and his unwitting pawn Puzzle, a donkey. The book weaves a narrative of the apocalyptic end of the fictional world of Narnia and serves as an allegory of the Christian belief of the Last Judgment.