Three signed, first-edition copies of books by CS Lewis are expected to fetch up to £3,000 each at an auction that will be held next month. The three books, all signed by CS Lewis, are The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Horse and His Boy and The Last Battle.
The books are being sold by American Walter McGehee Hopper, who was a friend to and private secretary to CS Lewis. The proceeds from the auction will go to the Roman Catholic church in Oxford where CS Lewis worked and spent much of his life.
The auction will take place at Sotheby’s in London in the 17th of July.
2008 year marks the 110th anniversary of CS Lewis’s birth. He was born in Belfast in 1898. CS Lewis went on to write The Chronicles of Narnia, seven works of fantasy produced for children and published between 1950 and 1956. The books have since been translated into more than 30 languages and sold millions of copies.
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