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MacDonald, George; Lewis, C. S.
Phantastes and Lilith.
Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd., London;
Date of Publication: 1962
Stock Code: 14923
First edition thus. Octavo, pp., 420. Publisher’s navy blue cloth, titled in gilt to spine. Publisher’s unclipped buttercup-yellow jacket, titled in purple and black to spine and upper panel. Small ownership inscription in blue ink to front free end-paper. Minor wear to corners and slight toning to spine panel and verso of jacket. Edges of text-block lightly toned. A near-fine copy in like dust-jacket. The first Gollancz edition of two novels, first published in 1858 and 1895 respectively, re-issued here for the first time in one volume. This first Gollancz edition includes a new introduction by C. S. Lewis and wrapper review by W. H. Auden. In the introduction Lewis says of MacDonald ‘Every now and then there occurs in the modern world a genius - a Kafka or a Novalis who can make [a myth]. MacDonald is the great genius of this kind whom I know’. Gollancz yellow sugar-paper dust-jackets are notoriously prone to wear and do not usually appear in this condition. £600.00