The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses by C S Lewis Fellow of Magdalen College Oxford New York The Macmillan Company 1949 First Printing

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Lewis, Clive Staples. The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses by C. S. Lewis Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949. First [American] printing (so stated). [viii; 66 pages] Black cloth with title of front cover in gilt. Dust jacket purple front panel, white back panel. Front panel fold-over clipped by publisher, price of $1.25 intact. Spine of the dust jacket sunned. Minor tear at the top and bottom of the front panel without paper loss. Published in England under the title Transposition and Other Addresses. Five addresses in all: “The Weight of Glory”; “Transposition”; “Membership”; “Learning in War-time”; and, “The Inner Ring.” “The Weight of Glory” concerns Heaven and man’s longing for a future or eternal life. Book fine, dust jacket near-fine.

 

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