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Auction archive: Lot number 180

LEWIS, C.S. | The Magician's Nephew, 1955, first edition, dust jacket, signed by Pauline Baynes

Estimate
£500 - £700
ca. US$667 - US$934
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 180

LEWIS, C.S. | The Magician's Nephew, 1955, first edition, dust jacket, signed by Pauline Baynes

Estimate
£500 - £700
ca. US$667 - US$934
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

LEWIS, C.S The Magician's Nephew. Bodley Head, 1955 8vo, FIRST EDITION, DUST-JACKET, signed by the illustrator Pauline Baynes on front free endpaper, publisher's green cloth lettered in silver on spine, spotting, dust-jacket with browning, creasing to folds and spine, minor chipping to edges "The Magicians Nephew takes us back to the dawn of Narnian time and the day when the Beasts first talked, which was also the day when people from our world first went to Narnia." Pauline Baynes provided the illustrations for the cover and interiors of each of the seven books in The Chronicles of Narnia. She is also known for being the illustrator of choice for J. R. R. Tolkien, who declared that she had "reduced my text to a commentary on her drawings."Condition reportCondition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The

Auction archive: Lot number 180
Auction:
Datum:
1 Dec 2020 - 8 Dec 2020
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

LEWIS, C.S The Magician's Nephew. Bodley Head, 1955 8vo, FIRST EDITION, DUST-JACKET, signed by the illustrator Pauline Baynes on front free endpaper, publisher's green cloth lettered in silver on spine, spotting, dust-jacket with browning, creasing to folds and spine, minor chipping to edges "The Magicians Nephew takes us back to the dawn of Narnian time and the day when the Beasts first talked, which was also the day when people from our world first went to Narnia." Pauline Baynes provided the illustrations for the cover and interiors of each of the seven books in The Chronicles of Narnia. She is also known for being the illustrator of choice for J. R. R. Tolkien, who declared that she had "reduced my text to a commentary on her drawings."Condition reportCondition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The

Auction archive: Lot number 180
Auction:
Datum:
1 Dec 2020 - 8 Dec 2020
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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