A GRIEF OBSERVED

First edition, first printing. Pubisher's original grey cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with some offsetting to the endpapers and a small bookseller's label to the rear pastedown, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has a very short closed tear to the top edge of the front panel, a little fading at the edges, and a few tiny pale marks to the lightly toned spine. Not price-clipped (8s 6d on the front flap).

A series of meditations drawn from the journals kept by C. S. Lewis after losing his wife Joy Davidman to cancer only three years into their marriage. The uncompromising explorations of the nature of grief and its relation to faith is so vulnerable and personal that Lewis chose to publish under a pseudonym. Faber revealed Lewis as the author of the work following his death in 1963, with the approval of his executors. Although unmarked as such, this volume is from the library of Maureen (Lady Dunbar of Hempriggs) and Leonard Blake.