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Charity Volunteers Find Rare Narnia First Edition

Monday, June 1st, 2009

The Last Battle - First EditionThis would be one amazing find, as The Last Battle is my favorite book in the series.  A first edition of the book has been discovered by a pair of charity bookshop volunteers.  Christine and Robert Williams were sorting through a delivery of donations to the National Trust’s second-hand bookshop at Mottisfont and came across a copy of the book.  Small, hardcovered, complete with a beautifully illustrated dust jacket.  The book was published in 1956 and could be worth as much as £1,000.

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