A Preface to Paradise Lost by C. S. Lewis
1946. Fifth Impression. 139 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Library copy, with removed inserts and inscriptions. Clean pages with mild tanning and visible foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown and endpaper. Notable scuffing to front endpaper. Heavy foxing to text block edges. Boards have mild edgewear with corner crushing and light marking to boards. Heavy tanning and foxing to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.