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HARDBACK - - A very good or better book bound in the publisher's green cloth boards with bright silver lettering to the spine. There is ghosting to the spine, with little areas of fading to the spine tips and to the bottom corner of the front panel where the dust wrapper has chipped over the years. Internally the text block and inner pages are very clean indeed, with no signs of foxing or finger marks, and free of any previous owner names or inscriptions. There is a little mild toning to the top page block, else a clean and lightly read book. The dust wrapper is in near very good condition with chipping to the spine tips, also with a quite large chip to the top corner of the rear flap. There is a smaller v-shaped chip to the bottom corner of the front panel with a small loss to the center of the spine. Light chipping to the corners of the front and rear flap folds. The dust wrapper is free of any forms or restoration, cleaning, or touching up. The publisher's printed price of 8s.6d.net present to the front flap.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1950. It is the first published and best known of seven novels in The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956). Among all the author's books, it is also the most widely held in libraries. Although it was written as well as published first in the series, it is volume two in recent editions, which are sequenced by the stories' chronology (the events of The Magician's Nephew take precedence).