Rare Narnia First Edition Found in Cornwall Charity Shop Sells for £1,000

Narnia First Edition Sells for £1,000 at Cornwall Charity Shop

A volunteer at a charity bookshop in Cornwall has found a rare first edition of CS Lewis’s 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe', and it has sold for £1,000. Jane Rickard spotted the 1950 copy at the Oxfam bookshop in Truro while sorting through newly donated books. She said she came across it “completely by chance”. The shop listed the book on the charity’s online store, where a buyer snapped it up within a short time.

“It looked like an old copy of it, I looked inside to see if it was a reprint, and it wasn’t, and I got quite excited,” she said. “So I checked online for what a first edition would look like and that’s when I thought, ‘It’s a first edition!’”

She admitted that “my jaw dropped” when she realised what the book might be worth. “For us, it’s very unusual,” she said. “We do get some excellent donations, and it’s not that rare to have a £30 book, a £50 book, but £1,000 has never happened.”

She put the find down to luck. “I can only think it was the magic of Narnia because…

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