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pp. 172. 8vo. Sky-blue boards with silver lettering to spine. Colour frontispiece, b&w illustrations, by Pauline Baynes. Spine unevenly sunned, ink name to front free endaper, a few spots, but contents generally clean, binding sound. Dustjacket shows a large chip out at the head of the spine, and several smaller chips, as well as some discolouration to spine, and some old tape repairs to verso of front panel. The sequentially second but first-published novel in the classic and beloved Narnia series, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was the world's first introduction to the Pevensie siblings and the fantastical adventures they experience when they discover the entrance to Narnia in a wardrobe in their country house.

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).