AND GOD CAME IN: The Extraordinary Story of Joy Davidman, Her Life and Marriage to C. S. Lewis.

First edition. Signed by the author. Inscribed assocation copy. Publisher's original quarter green cloth and paper covered boards with titles in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm with some bumping to the spine tips and corners, some mild fading to the extreme edge of the boards. The contents are clean throughout. Complete with the original dustwrapper that is a little rubbed and nicked at the spine tips and corners. Not price-clipped ($14.95 to the upper front flap).

Inscribed by the author in black ink on the front endpaper "August 9, 1984 / To Lady Dunbar and Mr. Leonard Blake / with best wishes / Lyle W. Dorsett". The recipients are Maureen Blake (nee Moore; Lady Dunbar of Hempriggs), one of the most significant figures in C. S. Lewis' life, a friend and surrogate sister with whom he lived for over 20 years, and her husband Leonard. Both teachers, Leonard was for more than two decades, the Director of Music at Malvern College (Lewis was educated at Malvern, and it is widely recognised that his time there, in particular the gas lamps and landscape, helped inspire the Chronicles of Narnia). Leonard and Maureen had two children, Lewis was godfather to their son Richard. They maintained a close friendship for the rest of Lewis' life. Leonard passed away in 1989 and Maureen in 1997, the final passages of 'The Last Battle' were read at her funeral.