Lewis (C.S.) Selected Literary Essays.
£120
Edited by Walter Hooper
Cambridge, at the University Press, 1969.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Assembled posthumously by Walter Hooper, Lewis’s tireless (his critics would say tirelessly proprietorial) literary executor, this gathers the professional criticism: essays ranging across Jane Austen, Shelley, Kipling, William Morris and the literary influence of the Authorised Version, written with the clarity of a man who believed criticism should be readable, a position that has perhaps never quite caught on…
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Neat ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper; jacket a little rubbed and chipped around spine, otherwise very good.
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