The Screwtape Letters.
“Suspicion often creates what it suspects"; First Edition of C.S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters
The Screwtape Letters.
LEWIS, C.S.
Item Number: 59086
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1942.
First British edition of Lewis’ classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some chips to the spine extremities. Rare in the original dust jacket.
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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