Three signed first edition copies of books by CS Lewis have sold for a total of £30,000 at an auction in Sotheby’s. This was more than three times the price they expected to fetch. The sale in London had experts were predicting that the books would fetch around £3,000 each but bidding on the books was so enthusiastic that The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader sold for £10,625, The Horse And His Boy £10,000 and The Last Battle £9,375.
The books were sold by Lewis’s former private secretary, Oxford-based Walter Hooper, and the money will be given to a Catholic church in Oxford where CS Lewis spent much of his life, even though Lewis admitted that he was a Church of England man.
CS Lewis mementoes and treasures are becoming increasingly sought after and valuable since the release of the widely acclaimed Chronicles of Narnia movies and Walter Hooper said he was delighted with the proceeds from the auction. The Narnia books were given to Mr Hooper by CS Lewis, three of them were signed by the author.