![]() Certainly, Lewis had enjoyed Nesbit's books as a child. Either the girl or Lewis may have been influenced by Edith Nesbit's The Aunt and Abel, in which a magic world is entered via a wardrobe in a spare room. One of them showed an interest in an old wardrobe and asked if she might go inside it to see if there were anything behind it. The inspiration for this book came in 1939 with some evacuated children staying at The Kilns. The author's most famous work and landmark of children's fiction. ![]() A near fine copy, with usual fading to the cloth through the dustwrapper, in a superb fine dustwrapper, which is clean and crisp with just the most minuscule wear to the spine ends and a tiny nick to the head of the spine. Original green cloth in pictorial dustwrapper designed by Pauline Baynes.Ĭolour frontispiece and numerous line drawings in text, all by Pauline Baynes. ![]()
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