First Puffin Books Edition, 1959 (First Published by Geoffrey Bless in 1950). A very good copy with pictorial covers and black & white line drawings by Pauline Baynes. Spotting to covers and endpapers, slight rubbing to edges and corners, small corner creases and 1/8" tear to front cover and ffep and another to rear cover. With all that said still looking bright and fresh. Pages with age toning to pages, as usual with early Penguin paperbacks and a couple of pages with corner creases but overall in very good+ condition. 171pp plus 3 pages of ads. 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis. It is the first published and best known of seven novels in The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956).