The true first edition of C.S. Lewis’s seminal work ‘The Screwtape Letters’, was published by Geoffrey Bles, London in February 1942. Originally serialised in 1941, in weekly installments in the Guardian newspaper, this collection of letters from a senior devil, Screwtape, to his pupil Wormwood is perhaps C.S. Lewis’s most famous work, and brought him worldwide recognition when it first appeared. Although it has been reprinted many times since, the book was initially published in a very small print run, accounting for its exceptional scarcity.
Hardback with dust jacket, black cloth boards with label pasted to spine, 160 pages. Note that first-edition copies in the original dust jacket are virtually unheard of, and command prices in the thousands when they do appear.
