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The Last Battle: A Story … Children by C. S. Lewis and Pauline Baynes, First Edition with Dust Jacket

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A First Edition, [First Printing] of 'The Last Battle: A Story for Children' by C. S. Lewis et al. in Very Good+ condition in a Very Good+ condition pictorial dust jacket published by Bodley Head in 1956

The Last Battle: A Story for Children [Chronicles of Narnia Number Seven (chronologically or Seven as published)] by C. S. Lewis and Pauline Baynes, First Edition with Dust Jacket

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  • The Last Battle: A Story for Children [Chronicles of Narnia Number Seven (chronologically or Seven as published)] by C. S. Lewis and Pauline Baynes, First Edition with Dust Jacket
  • The Last Battle: A Story for Children [Chronicles of Narnia Number Seven (chronologically or Seven as published)] by C. S. Lewis and Pauline Baynes, First Edition with Dust Jacket

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Condition Summary: (Very Good+/Very Good+) A sound book with clean boards and pages, in a clean bright dust jacket. All notable faults: Book has moderate spotting at the head of the upper fore-edge, some spotting on the lower fore-edge and moderate foxing on the prelims and page ends. Pictorial dust jacket has negligible wear on the corners, one small rub on the lower corner at the head of the spine and light spotting on the foreedges

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Book Number B0014323
Title The Last Battle: A Story for Children
Author(s) Author: Lewis, C. S. [Clive Staples] Illustrator: Pauline [Diana] Baynes

C. S. [Clive Staples] Lewis (1898 to 1963)—Irish-born, British novelist, academic medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, probably best known for his fiction, especially The Chronicles of Narnia, and to a lesser degree The Screwtape Letters and The Space Trilogy and Pauline [Diana] Baynes (1922 to 2008)—An English book illustrator born in Hove, probably best known for illustrations in the major works of C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia, Farmer Giles of Ham, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, Smith of Wootton Major, Tree and Leaf and Bilbo's Last Song) and J. R. R. Tolkien (some editions of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit)

Edition and Format First Edition, [First Printing] Book edition identified by: Publisher's stated imprint information. Dust jacket edition identified by: 2 paragraphs of blurb and priced 9s 6d with 3/3301 on the front flap and previous six titles on the lower panel

Hardcover, Octavo (20-25 cm high). 184 printed pages in publisher's original blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Contains black and white illustrations by Pauline Baynes
Publisher(s) Bodley Head, London, 1956

Bodley Head—(Founded in 1887) An English publishing house founded by John Lane and Elkin Mathews. It is currently and imprint of Random House. [McBride page 23] [Zempel and Verkler page 56] .

Series Chronicles of Narnia Number Seven (chronologically or Seven as published)

Chronicles Of Narnia—A series of children's novels for children about the adventures of children in the fictional world of Narnia, with talking animals, magic and of course Aslan. The series has sold over 120 million copies in 41 languages, and adapted for radio, television, stage, and cinema numerous times. The series contains 7 books. The first book was originally published in 1950 and the last book was originally published in 1956

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The last in the series in which the reappearance of Aslan in Narnia is not all it seems….

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