The Magician’s Nephew - Signed First Edition with Matthiessen Provenance Sir Charles Portal With a colour frontispiece portrait

With a colour frontispiece portrait of King George VI

presented by one of the defining American public intellectuals of the twentieth century to one of Britain’s most important wartime commanders

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and an important title for collectors of Churchill

The Magician’s Nephew - Signed First Edition with Matthiessen Provenance Sir Charles Portal With a colour frontispiece portraitLEWIS, C. S. The Magicians Nephew. London: The Bodley Head, 1955. First edition, first impression of the sixth published Narnia chronicle, the imaginative genesis of Lewis enduring secondary world. Octavo, original publishers green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the pictorial dust jacket by Pauline Baynes. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. A distinguished association copy, from the library of Peter Matthiessen, co founder of The