First edition. Octavo. Publisher’s green cloth, lettered gilt, in the original dustwrapper.
 
A near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper.
 
The first edition of Owen Barfield’s philosophical work on the confines of professional and academic specialisation. T.S. Eliot described the book as “An excursion into seas of thought which are very far from ordinary routes of intellectual shipping,” and C.S. Lewis personally valued it as an important work, writing to Barfield in March 1962: “I have read Worlds Apart. My trouble is that [it] is to me so exciting that I can’t help reading it far too quickly. I must presently tackle it again and less greedily.”