THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS | By C. S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters (SL)
SETTINGS 4-5 — All Volumes
SETTING 4
Contains the Original 1941 Preface, 1960 Preface, and SPT
M3a
Macmillan Paperback (1962)
Printing: New York
Paperback: White title/author on black field, featuring red feather quill
172 pages
Printing History:
1. 1962 for $.95
4. Sold for $.95
7. Sold for $.95 [1]
11. 1969 for $.95
12. 1970 for $.95
15. 1971 for $.95
[1] Printing number, but not year of printing at least through 8th printing.
SL4-M3a-4-x-Cover
M3b
Macmillan (January 1945)
Printing: USA
Paperback: Yellow title, white author on red field, featuring “shower-glassed” shadowed devil in formal dress
ISBN: 0-02-086860-X
172 pages
Printing History:
[Continued from M3a]
20. 1974 for $1.25
22. 1975 for $1.25
24. 1977 for $1.50
25. 1977 for $1.95
SL4-M3b-22-75-Cover
M3c
Macmillan Paperbacks (c. 1977)
Printing: USA
Black title, white author on pale “pink” field
Macmillan only as publisher
ISBN: 0-02-086870-7
172 pages
Printing History:
25. 1977 for $1.95 [1]
27. 1978 for $1.95
28. 1980 for $1.95
29. Sold for $1.95
[1] Macmillian 25th printing exists in both covers M3b and M3c with different ISBN. M3c is also packages as part of boxed set of “Six Spiritual Classics”
SL4-M3c-25-77-Cover
M3d
Collier Books for Macmillan Publishing Company (1982)
Printing: USA
Revised Edition: First publication of Lewis’ 1962 preface to SPT. [1]
Black title, white author on lavender (or pale blue) field
ISBN: 0-02086740-9
172 pages
[1] Considered only the “d cover” for M3 because all pagination remains the same from M3c. Title pages for SPT were adjusted so that preface is inserted on pp 151-2 and text of SPT still begins on p. 153.
Printing History:
1. 1982
2. Sold for $2.95 (Macmillan publishing, Not Collier – No explanation)
7. Sold for $1.95
11. Sold for $1.95
12. Sold for $1.95
15. Sold for $2.95
16. Sold for $2.95
24. Sold for $2.95
SL4-M3d-11-x-Cover
SETTING 5
Contains the Original 1941 Preface, SPT, and 1962 Preface to SPT
T
Time-life Books Inc. (1981)
Printing: USA
Time Reading Program Special Edition
A reprint of Setting 1 with same pagination, but adding unpaginated New Preface to front and SPT to end [now as pp. 161-185]
Introduction by Phyllis McGinley
Includes 1963 Time Reading Program Editors Preface
Cover by Jacob Landau: Pink title/author on white field, featuring pink/black abstracted cruciform figure standing over crowd
ISBN: 0-8094-3659-0 (pbk)
ISBN: 0-8094-3658-2 (deluxe)
134 pages
Printing History:
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