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The Macmillan Company, New York. 1950. 154 pages. First edition, first printing stated; no further printings listed. 1950 date on both the copyright page and title page. Original, rare, first state blue DJ with $2.50 price intact on flap. DJ is bright and attractive with small chips on flap fold tips. Minimal shelf-rubbing to DJ. Book is tight. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Pages and endpapers are bright and clean. Blue cloth with illustrated design on front. Titles on backstrip with bright yellow background. Blue cloth panels show light white spotting; otherwise book is essentially fine in a near fine DJ with a couple of small corner chips. A fantastic copy in remarkable condition, in an incredible original, first state DJ. A plum for any serious collector, and the first book in the Chronicles of Narnia series.

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).