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: 50398
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, fore-edge lightly spotted else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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.