The Screwtape Letters
Bles, 1942.
First edition. Original black cloth with white title label in scarce dustwrapper printed in red and black. A fine copy,with a contemporary name to the front pastedown beneath the flap of the dustwrapper, in a very good dustwrapper indeed, with a tanned spine showing just a little wear to its head and faint spotting to the front panel. An abnormally fresh example of a fragile production.
One of the author's most acclaimed books, encompassing Lewis's consummate abilities as both a storyteller and a theologian. The book takes the form of 31 letters from Screwtape, an urbane elder statesman of the underworld to his nephew, a novice devil, on how to procure the soul of a young Christian. The effect is both fiction and instruction, comic and deadly serious, and a genuinely original work.
The first edition, produced to wartime paper standards is uncommon, particularly with such a well preserved dustwrapper.
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