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London: Geoffrey Bles [and] The Bodley Head, 1950-1956.. COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITIONS, one volume SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR. Seven volumes. 8vo. (21 x 15 x 19cm). With illustrations by Pauline Baynes. The Magician's Nephew is SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to the title page. Recently rebound in green full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, 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. Presented in a matching fleece-lined cloth slipcase with ribbon-pull. A little spotting to The Magician's Nephew, otherwise crisp, clean copies presented in attractive, uniform modern leather bindings.

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.