The Screwtape Letters.

First Edition of the Screwtape Letters

The Screwtape Letters.

LEWIS, C.S.

Item Number: 3373

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1942.

First British edition. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a small chip to the crown spine. Uncommon in this condition.

The Screwtape Letters comprises thirty-one letters written by a senior demon named Screwtape to his nephew, Wormwood (named after a star in Revelation), a younger and less experienced demon, who is charged with guiding a man toward "Our Father Below" (Devil / Satan) and away from "the Enemy" (God). Versions of the letters were originally published weekly in the Anglican periodical The Guardian between May and November 1941.

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