8vo (225 x 159). Title-page printed in red and black. Original buckram backed boards, printed paper label on spine, top edge gilt, others uncut (chipping to label).  

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 197 of 500 copies SIGNED BY LEWIS with extra spine label laid in at rear. In 1926, Lewis was offered the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for this work but refused stating other authors were more worthy. Only four years later, he accepted the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters."