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Lewis, C. S.
Selected Literary Essays.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge;
Date of Publication: 1969
Stock Code: 15038
First edition. Octavo, pp., xx, [2], 329, [1] blank. Publisher’s original blue cloth, titled in gilt to spine, in the original unclipped red and black dust jacket. Small, neat ownership inscription in blue ink to front free end-paper. Toning to upper section of flaps, very slight shelf-wear to spine-tips. Cloth and gilt bright. Internally clean. A near-fine copy in like jacket. A colleciton of Lewis’ major essays, originally published separately between 1932 and 1962, gathered here for the first time in book form. Lewis discusses topics as wide-ranging as psychoanalysis, anthropology, and metre, as well as authors including Shakespeare, Chaucer, Shelley, Donne, Dryden, and William Morris. An excellent copy. £85.00