Very Scarce 1st UK Edition 

A GRIEF OBSERVED

 N.W. Clerk (pseudonym for C.S.Lewis)

Faber and Faber, London 1961 

A Very Good+ hardcover in a Very Good unclipped dustjacket that has minor edge wear.endpapers tanned away from jacket flaps. No inscriptions. Jacket now in a new Brodart protective sleeve.

Lovely 1st UK edition of A Grief Observed;published under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk (for Nat Whilk - Anglo -Saxon for 'I know not whom' and Clerk meaning a scholar or writer). Written in the days immediately following the death of Lewis's wife, Joy, in July. Published September 29,1961 by Faber and Faber,London. The U.S.A. edition appeared February 14,1963. It was re-issued under the author's own name in 1964

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