AN EXPERIMENT IN CRITICISM

First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with a previous owner's inscription to the front free endpaper and a short ink line to the margin of page 124 are otherwise clean and bright throughout. Complete with the very lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper which is ever so slightly toned at the spine and has a small ink note to the front flap. Not price-clipped (15s on the front flap).

C. S. Lewis explores the possibilities of replacing the concepts of 'good books' and 'bad books' within literary criticism with 'good reading' and 'bad reading', and in doing so examines shallow and deep styles of reading.