The Last Battle

by C.S. Lewis

illustrated by Pauline Baynes 

First printing.  New York:  The Macmillan Company, 1956 

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition, with a GOOD DJ under Mylar.

• Sky blue covers with black ink illustration and title at spine. 
• Boards show some exposure at edges, a ding to foot edge, edgewear.  Corners are sharp.  See photos.  
• Spine has black text and is sunned with darkened, crushed and frayed ends.  See photos. 
• Binding is strong. 
• Pastedowns and feps have some light staining. 
• Illustrations, black ink drawings and silhouettes in the text, are bright and clear.  
• Interior is gently age-toned, exhibits some tiny corner turn-ups, a corner bend at pg. 150.  See photos.  
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• DJ is nicely preserved behind Mylar.  
• Illustrated DJ has some edgewear, chipping at spine ends, corners, and foot; closed tears along head edge, bumping along foot edge, some sunning.  See photos. 
• PS2026.0513

174 pages. 5 3/8 x 8 inches

First American Edition, First printing (stated).  Publisher's pale blue boards with silhouette illustration in black ink to top board and title in black at spine.  Dust jacket, with $2.75 price intact, is gray-blue with illustration by Pauline Baynes, same as the London first edition.  Binding is sound, boards generally clean with some exposure at periphery and a dent to the foot edge, some wear to the spine ends.  Jacket has protective Mylar, with chipping at spine ends, corners and foot edge.  Interior is unmarked.  A Very Good copy of this First U.S. Printing of the final installment in the Chronicles of Narnia.

C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) wrote widely, both fiction and non-fiction, but he is best known and loved for his seven-volume children's fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia.  The illustrations are by Pauline Baynes (1922-2008), who illustrated all the Narnia books and also created cover and map art for some of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.

Stated First printing.

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