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The Screwtape Letters
by C.S. Lewis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine Minus/Very Good
- Seller
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Templeton, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan, 1943. Book. Fine Minus. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 9th printing of 1st American Edition. Book is clean, unmarked, spine tight, slightly tanned endpapers, tips with minuscule rubbing and spine ends slightly worn. The dust jacket is price clipped and has loss and chipping at spine ends with about a two inch x 1/3 inch loss at front cover tip. Other small chips at points and some edges. Jacket has a smudge on the front and overall aging. Looks great now in its new shiny plastic cover. Shipping box is suitable for wrapping with a non-price listed purchase order inside along with biodegradable packing. From the jacket, "These brilliant, challenging letters from an elderly devil in hell to his junior on earth are the most vital and original restatement of religious truths produced in our time -- a profound, hard-hitting, provoking, yet truly reverent book.".
Synopsis
The Screwtape Letters is a work of Christian apologetics by C. S. Lewis, first published in book form in 1942. The story takes the form of a series of letters from a senior demon, Screwtape, to his nephew, a junior tempter named Wormwood, so as to advise him on methods of securing the damnation of an earthly man, known only as "the Patient. The novel was dedicated to J.R.R. Tolkien, and is among one of Lewis' most popular works.
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- Bookseller
- Winding Road Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000732
- Title
- The Screwtape Letters
- Author
- C.S. Lewis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Minus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Literary Fiction Religion Protestantism
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- Tight
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- Price Clipped
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- Rubbing
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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