First combined edition. Octavo. Publisher’s blue cloth, lettered silver, in the original red printed dustwrapper. The dustwrapper is in the second state, with reviews to the flaps.
 
A near fine copy in a very good dustwrapper, spine slightly faded and rubbed, some wear to the edges and chip to the lower panel. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper.
 
The first combined edition of Mere Christianity. During the Second World War, C.S. Lewis was invited by the BBC to give a series of radio broadcasts on the Christian faith. The result, told not in the tone of academic theology, but in conversational good humour, is one of the most famous and resonant defences of Christianity of the twentieth century. The talks were published in the three parts present here, in 1942, 1943 and 1944. Then, in 1952, they were collected in this single volume and published under the title ’Mere Christianity’.