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A first edition, first printing published by Bles in 1950. A very good book with a neat gift inscription to the head of the front free endpaper. Some shadowing to the edges of the boards and the spine as is common with this title. In a dust wrapper which has benefitted from some restorative repair to the bottom of the front panel and spine tips and a little to the edges. Presents very well indeed. The first of the Narnia novels to be produced, but the second in the sequence. Includes wardrobes, Turkish Delight and beavers.

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).