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Perelandra
by Lewis, C. S
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- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good /Fair
- Seller
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About This Item
London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1948. 8vo. Fifth Impression. 256 pp. Blue hardback in illustrated jacket, price clipped. Jacket has significant areas of loss to bottom of front panel and head of spine, with tear, wear and chipping along its edges and a marks. Spine ends rubbed and a few spots to prelims, but otherwise clean. Pencil owner's name to ffep. Second book in C. S. Lewis's science fiction series The Space Trilogy - much like Narnia, a Christian allegory. . Good. Hardcover. 5th Impression. 1948.
Synopsis
Perelandra, the second novel in Lewis's science fiction trilogy, tells of Dr. Ransom's voyage to the paradise planet of Perelandra, or Venus, which turns out to be a beautiful Eden-like world. He is horrified to find that his old enemy, Dr. Weston, has also arrived and is putting him in grave peril once more. As the mad Weston's body is taken over by the forces of evil, Ransom engages in a desperate struggle to save the innocence of Perelandra! -C.S. Lewis Official Website.
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Reviews
On Feb 24 2017, a reader said:
German Überland-Trams, aka Überlandstraßenbahnen, have some kinship to American Interurbans, and typically a charm all their own. Some are Straßenbahnen that wandered into the countryside beyond urban areas, some are Kleinbahnen that were electrified and used trams or tram-like equipment. At least one is a non-electrified Kleinbahn that chose to reestablish itself legally under the Straßenbahn laws, rather than the more rigorous railway laws, In some ways, this book is a hodge-podge, as if compiled from a selection of magazine articles that are more or less related to the theme. The book is neither comprehensive, nor entirely superficial, but provides a mostly-color overview of the topic, while occasionally delving deeper. It should delight anyone with any interest at all in the topic, while frustrating those with a deeper interest (preexisting, or inspired by this book), because there is not a good next step: delving deeper requires going to a variety of books whose topics overlap with this title, or cover a single railway.
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- Bookseller
- Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 68930
- Title
- Perelandra
- Author
- Lewis, C. S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 5th Impression
- Publisher
- John Lane The Bodley Head 1948
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1948
- Size
- 8vo.
- Keywords
- Space Trilogy,Science Fiction,Elwin Ransom,Narnia,Cosmic Trilogy,, Christianity,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Philosophy and Religion;
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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