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LEWIS, Clive Staples (1898–1963). The Screwtape Letters. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1943. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, spine lettered in black (embossed ex libris to ffep of Christian and Mary Schafer); original dust jacket with $1.50 price (light chipping and toning to jacket extremities). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of Lewis’ famed epistolary novel composed of letters from the elder devil Screwtape to his nephew Wormwood (named after a star in Revelation) charged with guiding a man toward “Our Father Below” (Satan) and away from “the Enemy” (God).