LEWIS, C. S. Surprised by Joy
LEWIS, C. S. Surprised by Joy. London: Geoffrey Bles. 1955. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s grey cloth lettered in yellow and silver gilt to the spine, in the first issue dust jacket without reviews to rear panel. A very good or better copy, the cloth clean but the lettering a little dulled and rubbed. Binding tight and square, the contents fine. The dust jacket unclipped (15s net) with a handful of small closed tears to edges, the spine head with small loss, a couple of minor marks.
A spiritual and intimate memoir recounting the author’s early childhood to 1931, from an encounter with a poem by Longfellow, Beatrix Potter’s ‘Squirrel Nutkin’, and a miniature garden fashioned on an old tea tray. Lewis said these moments brought him to the undefinable desire he called ‘joy’. From Belfast through World War I and ending in Oxford, it is a journey of “the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England”.
LEWIS, C. S. Surprised by Joy. London: Geoffrey Bles. 1955. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s grey cloth lettered in yellow and silver gilt to the spine, in the first issue dust jacket without reviews to rear panel. A very good or better copy, the cloth clean but the lettering a little dulled and rubbed. Binding tight and square, the contents fine. The dust jacket unclipped (15s net) with a handful of small closed tears to edges, the spine head with small loss, a couple of minor marks.
A spiritual and intimate memoir recounting the author’s early childhood to 1931, from an encounter with a poem by Longfellow, Beatrix Potter’s ‘Squirrel Nutkin’, and a miniature garden fashioned on an old tea tray. Lewis said these moments brought him to the undefinable desire he called ‘joy’. From Belfast through World War I and ending in Oxford, it is a journey of “the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England”.
LEWIS, C. S. Surprised by Joy. London: Geoffrey Bles. 1955. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s grey cloth lettered in yellow and silver gilt to the spine, in the first issue dust jacket without reviews to rear panel. A very good or better copy, the cloth clean but the lettering a little dulled and rubbed. Binding tight and square, the contents fine. The dust jacket unclipped (15s net) with a handful of small closed tears to edges, the spine head with small loss, a couple of minor marks.
A spiritual and intimate memoir recounting the author’s early childhood to 1931, from an encounter with a poem by Longfellow, Beatrix Potter’s ‘Squirrel Nutkin’, and a miniature garden fashioned on an old tea tray. Lewis said these moments brought him to the undefinable desire he called ‘joy’. From Belfast through World War I and ending in Oxford, it is a journey of “the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England”.