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Lewis, C. S.
A Grief Observed.
Publisher: Faber & Faber, London;
Date of Publication: 1964
Stock Code: 15039
Second edition, the first published under the author’s own name. Octavo, pp., 60. Publisher’s original grey buckram, titled in gilt to spine, in the original unclipped pale blue jacket. Small, neat ownership inscription in ink to front free end-paper. Toning to jacket. Cloth and gilt bright. Internally clean. A near-fine copy in a very good jacket. Originally published in 1961 under the pseudonym ‘N. W. Clerk’, this is the first printing bearing the author’s name. Lewis’ most vulnerable work, which intimately recounts his experience of grieving for his wife, Joy Davidman. £50.00