The Pilgrim's Regress. by LEWIS, C. S - 1943: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism.

London: Geoffrey Bles,, 1943. Octavo. Original green cloth, printed paper label to spine, map endpapers. With the dust jacket. A very good copy in the dust jacket, spine panel toned and a little chipped at ends, some very faint soiling. New and revised edition, the third overall (first published 1933), including a new preface by the author. The Pilgrim's Regress was Lewis's first published work of prose fiction and his third book overall following two books of poetry. It charts the progress of a fictional character named John through a philosophical landscape in search of the island of his desire, and serves as an allegory for the author's own spiritual journey from atheist to committed Christian. With the large bookplate to the front free endpaper verso of the Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson (1914-1987).