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Author:C. S. Lewis
Title:The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe
Publisher:  Puffin
Country:UK
Date:Oct 1959
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Fantasy, Kids
Cat#:PS132
Total Editions:8
First Published:  1950
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C. S. Lewis - The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe - Geoffrey Bles - Hardcover - UK (1950)

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ppint.
7th Dec 2021
 series listing links re-done to link to earliest editions so far bookcatted.

edit 25/9/2022: re-re-done to link to any earlier editions added since.

and tested.
 
 
ppint.
3rd Aug 2021
 first-written of the narnia books, though by internal chronology #2:

#1: ''the magician's nephew'' (1955), q.v.
#2: ''the lion, the witch and the wardrobe'' (1950), (this novel)
#3: ''the horse and his boy'' (1954), q.v.
(#3 is set during #2, but is only slightly involved in offstage events therein; and some, vice-versa)
#4: ''prince caspian'' (1951), q.v.
#5: ''the voyage of the dawn treader'' (1952), q.v.
#6: ''the silver chair'' (1953), q.v.
#7: ''the last battle'' (1956), q.v.
 
 
ppint.
3rd Aug 2021
 penguin books puffin books imprint first p/b printing, first p/b edition

cover art by pauline baynes
interior b+w illustrations by pauline baynes
cover price 3/-
176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.

many near-identical reprints with slowly rising cover prices:
1960, 62, 63, 64, 65 (twice), 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72 (twice), 73 (thrice), 74 (twice), 75 (twice), 76 (twice), 77, 78 (thrice), 79 (thrice):

1979 29th puffin books p/b printing differs from first puffin books printing:
horizontal band at bottom front cover is narrower, and orange rather than black, and no longer bears the cover price; spine is also orange and adds
isbn incorporating original cat#: 0-14-03-0132-1
cover price 65p, $1.95 australia, $1.75 canada

..

1979 31st puffin books p/b printing differs:
cover price 70p, $2.25 australia, $1.95 canada
(probably the last puffin books p/b printing, as the first fontana lions uk p/b edition was published 1980)
 

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