Letters to an American Lady : C.S. Lewis. Edited by Clyde Kilby. LONDON : 1969. HARDBACK in JACKET. by C.S. LEWIS (29 November 1898 - 22 November 1963) Edited By Clyde Samuel Kilby (1902-1986) - 1969

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1969. First British Edition . Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 8vo. FIRST UK EDITION : 1969. [ Edited and with a Preface by Clyde S Kilby. First published, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1967.]. 'On October 26th, 1950, C. S. Lewis 1950 wrote the first of more than 100 letters he would send to a woman he had never met, but with whom he was to maintain a correspondence for the rest of his life.' From the jacket flap. Hardback. Original red cloth; gilt lettered spine. Salmon pink & white printed dust-jacket (price-clipped). Blue end-papers (facsimiles of two manuscript letters from CSL) - front and rear. Bright, tight and clean internally. No owner name or internal markings. Minor fading to the jacket spine. VERY GOOD INDEED in VERY GOOD jacket; now in a clear protective sleeve. 121 pages. CLYDE SAMUEL KILBY (26 September 1902 - 18 October 1986) was an American author and English professor, best known for his scholarship on the Inklings, especially J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. A professor at Wheaton College (Illinois), U.S.A. for most of his life, Dr. Kilby founded the Marion E. Wade Center there, making it a centre for the study of the Inklings, their friends (such as Dorothy L. Sayers), and their influences (such as George MacDonald) and others making 'Seven' authors. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. 8vo. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, Cumberland, Everyman, Keswick, Inklings, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ]