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First Edition. 173 pp. Full navy blue morocco with silver lampost illustration to front board, and raised bands, gilt lettering and borders to spine in a blue slipcase; maroon endpapers, all edges gilt. Beautifully bound by the Chelsea Bindery. Minor smudge marks to slipcase. Internally and externally fine, clean and bright. Colour frontispiece and numerous black & white illustrations by Pauline Baynes. The first volume published by Lewis in his Narnia series. An incredibly handsome first edition copy of this all-time classic. 8vo.

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).