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Published by Bles, London, UK, 1961. 5th impression. Original cloth. Dustwrapper. Size: 14.3cm x 20.4cm. Pp. 173. Illustrated throughout by Pauline Baynes. Binding nice and tight with only slight fading to the cloth. Pages generally very nice and clean with occasional very slight foxing. A near fine, tight, bright, clean copy in near fine, very slightly nicked and rubbed dustwrapper which has a 1cm closed tear to the corner of the front panel but has none of the usual darkening to the spine. A very nice copy indeed. Very scarce in this condition.

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).