PERELANDRA BY C.S. LEWIS 1943 FIRST EDITION

[LEWIS, C.S.]. Perelandra. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1943.

FIRST UK EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION. Cloth-bound; hardcover with dust jacket; octavo (19 x 12.5 x 2.5 cm); pp. 256. English text. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine titles; supplied with the original price-clipped dust jacket but with '8s. 6d. net' price still visible. Condition: GOOD. Binding tight and secure with minor spine lean. Covers with light fading to spine tips and board edges. Interior very well-preserved and without previous ownership markings. Dust jacket spine ends chipped with rubbing to the extremities, a short closed tear to front panel. Scarce. 

Notes: The second title in Lewis' Space Trilogy, extremely scarce in the dust jacket.