Geoffrey Bles, London, 1951
Stated First Edition, First Printing Clean beautiful book with a near fine dust jacket. Prince Caspian is the second book in the Narnia fantasy series after The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. All first state dust jackets points present including “publisher’s ‘blurb’ and with reviews of The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe to the rear panel, and ‘APTV/10’ printed to the rear turn-in.”
The book is in beautiful condition with royal blue cloth boards, with bright unfaded silver titles to spine. The boards have clean cloth and sharp corners, one tip bump, and no edgewear. The binding is tight and square. The end papers are clean with but a few dots of foxing but No inscriptions, no owner names and No bookplates. The internal pages appear as crisp, clean and unread, with No tears, No bent pages, No handling marks, No stains, no foxing and No writing. Beautiful highly collectible example of this title. Please see images.
The scarce original dust jacket has benefited from some restoration by an expert paper conservator and as such presents as a near fine example. The jacket has strong vibrant colors with no rips, no chips, no edgewear, no stains, no fading, and no rubbing. The jacket is NOT price clipped, and has a stated price of 10s. 6d.net. Please see detailed images.
A very handsome example of this scarce title in beautiful collectible condition
