Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1969
ISBN 10: 0340107936 ISBN 13: 9780340107935
Seller: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First British Edition. FIRST UK EDITION : 1969. [ Edited and with a Preface by Clyde S Kilby. First published, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1967.]. 'On October 26th, 1950, C. S. Lewis 1950 wrote the first of more than 100 letters he would send to a woman he had never met, but with whom he was to maintain a correspondence for the rest of his life.' From the jacket flap. Hardback. Original red cloth; gilt lettered spine. Salmon pink & white printed dust-jacket (price-clipped). Blue end-papers (facsimiles of two manuscript letters from CSL) - front and rear. Bright, tight and clean internally. No owner name or internal markings. Minor fading to the jacket spine. VERY GOOD INDEED in VERY GOOD jacket; now in a clear protective sleeve. 121 pages. CLYDE SAMUEL KILBY (26 September 1902 - 18 October 1986) was an American author and English professor, best known for his scholarship on the Inklings, especially J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. A professor at Wheaton College (Illinois), U.S.A. for most of his life, Dr. Kilby founded the Marion E. Wade Center there, making it a centre for the study of the Inklings, their friends (such as Dorothy L. Sayers), and their influences (such as George MacDonald) and others making 'Seven' authors. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. 8vo. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, Cumberland, Everyman, Keswick, Inklings, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ].
Published by Geoffrey Bles,, London,, 1968
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 252. Original publishers brown cloth, lettered white at the spine. Signed presentation from the editor on the title page, "To Aubrey Moody, with warm greetings, Clyde Kilby." Very good indeed in price-clipped, near very good dust jacket, with slight nicking at edges. Signedes.