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1950 1st edition 1st impression. Green cloth, silver titles to spine, unclipped pictorial dustjacket. Original dustjacket with 8s.6d. NET printed to front flap. Colour frontis. and b/w drawings throughout by Pauline Baynes. Condition: Very good book in Fair dustjacket. Boards and spine with patchy fading. Light edgewear. Slightly cocked. Child's bookplate and pencil inscription to ffep. One very small torn spot on front inner hinge, hinges otherwise intact. Slight tanning to endpapers. A little spotting to edges of text block. Pages clean and bright with just one 1/2 inch long ink mark to the margin of p128. Binding firm. Dj with losses to top and bottom edges. Some old tape repairs verso. Now in a removable plastic sleeve. Size: 8x6in / 20x15cm. 173pp. Weight: 365g.

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).