Till We Have Faces, First Edition (23 results)

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Fritz Eichenberg (illustrator). 1st Edition. Binding Tight Pages Clean Light Edge Wear. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Blue hard cover has gilt titles on spine. Boards are bright and clean. Contents are tight with no inscriptions but with age-toning to e/p's and some foxing to page edges. Dust jacket has darkened spine and foxing internally. It has not been price clipped. Nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: good. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. First American Edition. 313p, octavo. A good copy in a fair dust jacket. Jacket has significant chips and closed tears, spine sunned, stained along extremities. Boards are worn, text block spoiled with a few small stains on foredge. Foxed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Thus. Stated First American Edition. THe book is bound in fine salmon color cloth with titling on the spine in gilt. Spine has faded. Areas of fading on the covers. Name of a previous owner on the first free endpaper. Otherwise, pages are lightly age-toned, clean, smooth and unmarked. The binding is firm. The final novel by the great British novelist and Anglican lay theologian, best known for his Chronicles of Narnia. Based upon the Cupid and Pscyhe myth.

1st edn 2nd printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (lightly bumped at headcap - otherwise near Fine), dustwrapper (small nick at top edge of upper cover - otherwise near Fine in protective wrapper, price clipped). Pp. 320 (page edges with very faint spotting; previous owner's light pencil inscription on front endpaper).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ex-library book with very minor library marks. Dust jacket has a little edge and corner wear. First American Edition. ***PROMPT, PROFESSIONAL SERVICE!***.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st American edition. 8vo, 313 pp, publisher's red cloth lettered in silver at spine with black illustration at spine (light soiling and staining to front boards, no internal markings, some offsetting to endpapers, very good), illustrated dust jacket (mild toning to spine, small stain to front panel, light rubbing and creasing along edges, small chips to spine ends, good to very good), in mylar jacket. Drawings by Fritz Eichenberg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The dust jacket ha some chipping and edgewear but is generally in good . There is some foxing and darkening of the textblock but it is minimal.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st UK Edition. 320 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Previous owner's signature on the ffep. Light foxing near the edges. Page edges are lightly darkened, smudged, and stained. Bound in blue hardcovers with gilt titles on the spine. Darkened around the edges, faded on the ends of the spine. Lightly bumped on the corners. Dustjacket in fair condition with significant wear around the edges and flaps and hinges with chips and tears. Darkened and stained on the back of the jacket. 1ST UK EDITION. NPC. VG+/FAIR Size: 8vo: 5 x 8. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. First Edition. VG+/VG+ 12mo. original blue boards gilt (occ. spotting./offsetting) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, a trifle rubbed & nicked, a little spotting/toning); pp. 320. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The first American edition ( stated ), published by Harcourt Brace and Company in 1957. Bound in publisher's brick colored cloth, lettered in silver, with illustrative figurine in red. A fine example of the book. Top edge stain vibrant. Dust jacket very good with light chipping to head and heel of spine. There is a one half inch triangular chip to top of front panel, and shallow chips to top of rear panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Publisher's silver-titled red cloth, dark red/brown topstain. Stated first American edition. Hint of toning/soil to block edge. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is nicked/rubbed, faintly soiled, a bit insected to flap edge. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 313 pages.

First edition. Lewis's retelling of the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche, which he reported haunted him for many years. His last novel and the one he considered to be his most mature. 8vo silver-stamped blue, simulated-cloth covered boards; 320 pages. Very good to near fine with pages a little aged and endpapers unavoidable darkened (offsets from binding materials); in very good or better dust jacket with spine and edges slightly tanned, nicking to spine ends and corners, rear panel lightly soiled, and internal staining casting a slight shadow on upper lettering at spine. Relatively uncommon in the U.S.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. London, Geoffrey Bles, 1956 (first edition). Octavo, 320 pages. Blue papered boards slightly bumped; endpapers unevenly tanned; contemporary small paper label of the Adelaide booksellers F.W. Preece at the foot of the front pastedown; an excellent copy with the excellent price-clipped dustwrapper (designed by John R. Biggs) slightly creased with two tiny tears along the front bottom edge. A novel based on the classical myth of Psyche and Cupid; the rear panel of the dustwrapper contains a lengthy description by the author of the changes he made to the myth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. London, Geoffrey Bles, 1956 (first edition). Octavo, 320 pages. Blue papered boards lettered in gilt on the spine; top and leading edges slightly marked; endpapers offset; front pastedown creased prior to the endpaper being inserted; contemporary date and ownership signature on the (slightly marked) front flyleaf; an excellent copy with the unclipped dustwrapper (designed by John R. Biggs) a little marked, with a few tiny tears (confined mainly to the rear panel). 'C.S. Lewis has based his novel . on the classical myth of Psyche and Cupid' (from the rear panel of the dustwrapper; the blurb contains a lengthy description by Lewis of the changes he made to the myth).

8vo., First Edition, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip very slightly faded at extreme head and tail, fore-edge faintly spotted else very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned on (predominantly white ) rear panel. Lewis reworks the legend of Cupid and Psyche. SCARCE. Hooper 31.

First edition of Lewis' final novel retelling of Cupid and Psyche, based on its telling in a chapter of The Golden Ass of Apuleius. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, gilt signature to the front panel, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation. The first part of the book is written from the perspective of Psyche's older sister Orual, as an accusation against the gods. The story is set in the fictive kingdom of Glome, a primitive city-state whose people have occasional contact with civilized Hellenistic Greece. In the second part of the book, the narrator undergoes a change of mindset (Lewis would use the term conversion) and understands that her initial accusation was tainted by her own failings and shortcomings, and that the gods are lovingly present in humans' lives. Finally written in a "full flush of inspiration. it was certainly his most unexpected book, and his greatest tour de force; to many readers, and probably to himself, his best work of fiction (even if Perelandra remained his favourite)" (Green & Hooper, C. S. Lewis: A Biography, 1974).

First edition of Lewis' final novel retelling of Cupid and Psyche, based on its telling in a chapter of The Golden Ass of Apuleius. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Biggs. An exceptional example. The first part of the book is written from the perspective of Psyche's older sister Orual, as an accusation against the gods. The story is set in the fictive kingdom of Glome, a primitive city-state whose people have occasional contact with civilized Hellenistic Greece. In the second part of the book, the narrator undergoes a change of mindset (Lewis would use the term conversion) and understands that her initial accusation was tainted by her own failings and shortcomings, and that the gods are lovingly present in humans' lives. Finally written in a "full flush of inspiration. it was certainly his most unexpected book, and his greatest tour de force; to many readers, and probably to himself, his best work of fiction (even if Perelandra remained his favourite)" (Green & Hooper, C. S. Lewis: A Biography, 1974).

HARDCOVER NAVY BLUE. Condition: VERY GOOD. JACKET: NEAR FINE. FIRST ED. 1st edition unclipped DJ near fine, DJ second impression, previous owner name signed in blue pen on inside of front board, gold gilt lettering on spine, slightly age toned pages DATE PUBLISHED: 1956 EDITION: FIRST ED 320.

First edition. Octavo. A 320-page novel based on the myth of Cupid and Psyche.Free endpapers partially tanned. Head and tail of spine slightly faded. Near fine in very good indeed dustwrapper slightly nicked and creased at the edges and with a slight stain at tail of spine.

First edition, first impression, of Lewis's retelling of the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche. Lewis's only work written from a woman's viewpoint. Left unfinished for three decades, the book was finally written in a "flush of inspiration" and was "his greatest tour de force; to many readers, and probably to himself, his best work of fiction" (Green & Hooper). Green & Hooper, C. S. Lewis: A Biography, 1974, p. 265. Octavo. Original blue boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Bookplate of Martin J. S. Rudwick (b. 1932) on front pastedown, a British academic who has written on the relationship between science and Christianity. Small mark on spine; light toning to endpapers, edges foxed; rear panel of jacket foxed and creased, 3 cm closed tear to foot of rear spine fold, else bright, unclipped; a very good copy in like jacket.