20th Century Literature

Lot 110
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Lot 110 | 20th Century Literature
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TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE. Group of 19 volumes, by C.S. Lewis, Edith Wharton, Thornton Wilder, and G.K. Chesterton. Chiefly London and New York, 1910-1967.

First editions or first American editions, including Wilder’s first novel to be set in the United States. Wharton’s House of Mirth, and a handsome copy of C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape Letters. Comprises: WHARTON, Edith. The House of Mirth. Scribner’s, 1905. * —. Italian Backgrounds. Scribner’s, 1905. Decorative cloth. * —. The Writing of Fiction. Scribner’s, 1925. * WILDER, Thornton. Heaven’s My Destination. New York: Harper’s, 1935. * CHESTERTON, G.K. What’s Wrong With the World. Cassell, 1910. * —. Five Types. London & New York, 1911. 12mo. Original slipcase (worn). * LEWIS, Clive Staples (1898-1963). The Screwtape Letters. London: Bles, [1945]. * —. Christian Behaviour. London: Bles, [1943]. * —. Beyond Personality. London: Bles, [1944]. * —. Transposition and other Addresses. London: Bles, [1949]. Original wrappers. * —. The Great Divorce. London: Bles, [1945]. * —. Till We Have Faces. London: Bles, [1956]. * —. Surprised by Joy. Harcourt, [1956]. * —. The Four Loves. London: Bles, [1960]. * —. Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer. Harcourt, Brace [1964]. * —. An Experiment in Criticism. Cambridge University Press, 1961. * —. The Discarded Image. Cambridge University Press, 1964. * —. Spenser's Images of Life. Cambridge University Press, 1967. * —. Letters to an American Lady. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, [1967].

Together, 19 volumes. Mostly octavo. Original cloth or boards except as noted; dust jackets on all except the 1910 volume and all Edith Wharton. Condition varies, overall very good, a little spotting to the war-date editions.
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