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The Red Priest.

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1956.

8vo, pp. vi, 298; publisher’s maroon cloth, dust-jacket printed in red and black to a design by Michael Ayrton; a fine copy in a near-fine jacket; bookplate of Lewis’s friend, the BBC radio producer D. G. Bridson.

£150

Approximately:
US $196  €179

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First edition, the last book published before Lewis’s death in March 1957. Bridson and Lewis had corresponded about a possible radio adaptation but Bridson had concluded it was over-episodic and would not translate well (letter of 6 March 1951).

Pound & Grover A42; Morrow & Lafourcade A41.

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