The Silver Chair.
“You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you": First Edition of C.S. Lewis' The Silver Chair; Finely Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with a Unique Binding
The Silver Chair.
LEWIS, C.S.
$4,800.00
Item Number: 147822
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1953.
First edition of the author’s classic work in his acclaimed Chronicles of Narnia. Octavo, bound in full gray morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with a pictorial design in multicolor leather mosaic, with tooling in palladium and gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt topstain, housed in a matching felt-lined slipcase. An exceptional and imaginative design, the rear cover with a figure in black, approaches a door set in a wall through which can be seen falling leaves (in gilt) against autumnal shades, illustrations by Pauline Baynes. In fine condition. A unique example.
