There is also some light creasing and some small areas of rubbing at the extremities. The dustwrapper is unusually complete, with just some minor loss and wear at the top of the spine, and a small nick out of the bottom edge of the back panel. Biggs, is correct for the first impression, with no mention of impressions on the front flap. ***In a very good white, grey and yellow printed dustwrapper, that has been corner price-clipped.

The paper stock is clean and is much whiter than is usually found for this book (which is normally found with tanned paper stock). Internally also very good with no inscriptions - just a couple of light contemporary date stamps to the top of the front free endpaper - showing when the book was bought. The fore edge of the page block has foxing which bleeds through to the edges of the page margins in places. The top edge of the page block is stained yellow by the publisher and is still nice and clean without any fading. Corners quite sharp with just very slight creasing to the top corner tips. Head and tail of spine slightly creased, with a small bump to the bottom edge of the back board. The silver and gold is still beautifully bright, having been protected by the dustwrapper. ***Very good in silver-grey boards with silver titles to the spine on a golden-yellow panel. First impression of the true first edition. Dust wrapper is smart, with minor chipping to the head and tail of the spine, some faint marks to the wrap, and some offsetting to the verso of the wrap. Pages are bright and clean, except for offsetting to the first and last few pages. Externally, cloth is in excellent condition with bright spine label.

In publisher's original cloth binding, with original unclipped dust wrapper. This work describes Lewis's life from very early childhood (born 1898) until his conversion to Christianity in 1931. This is the second impression, published November 1955. A scarce partial autobiography published by C. The first edition, second impression of this scarce work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. A scarce first edition, second impression copy of this spiritual autobiography by popular children's author C.

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