Books

1st printing, 1950. Boards and spine faded, top edge and top corner of rear board nibbled, contents exceptionally clean and bright throughout, Gift inscription on front free end paper, no other inscriptions or bookplates. A very good copy.

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).