The Screwtape Letters and Screwtape proposes a Toast. With a new Preface
LEWIS, C. S.
[First Omnibus Edition.]
FIRST OMNIBUS EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Geoffrey Bles, 1961
Stock code: 51396
Price: £200.00
8vo., First Edition thus, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, neat signature on front free endpaper; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in red, red top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrapper with one small nick at base of backstrip.
Bright copy of the first omnibus edition, combining The Screwtape Letters (first published 1942) with the first publication of Screwtape Proposes a Toast. The author's new Preface is dated 18 May 1960. The dustwrapper rear panel features a drawing of Screwtape by the author, first printed in the US edition of 1943. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Hooper 9.