The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe: A Story for Children (First Edition, First Impression) Illustrations by Pauline Baynes

FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION (with 8s. 6d. NET price to dust jacket flap and APT/S573 to rear flap) 8vo. blue/green cloth hardback with silver gilt titles to spine, in original uncliped dust jacket by Pauline Baynes. 173pp., with colour frontispiece and many full page and vignette b/w illustrations by Pauline Baynes through the text. A clean copy with no markings or inscriptions. A few faint spots of foxing to endpapers, else clean and bright internally and binding nice and sound. Areas of fading to cloth spine, corresponding with loss to dust jacket, and upper and lower edges slightly tanned. Unrepaired, original dust jacket has areas of loss to top and base of spine, a few other small chips and closed tears to edges, and light soiling - please see photos. Outer edge of rear flap has a row of tiny indentations, visible on last 5 photos. A VERY GOOD COPY in Good+ Dust Jacket.