Lewis (C. S., 1898-1963). Collection of C. S. Lewis titles from the library of Cecil Harwood, mainly 1st editions, c.1936-1969, original cloth, boards or wrappers, many with dust jackets where applicable, variable condition, comprising: 

7 with Harwood's ownership inscription (The Allegory of Love, 1936; Out of the Silent Planet, 1938, spine rolled, backstrip perished; The Problem of Pain, 1940; The Screwtape Letters, 1942; Poems, 1964, with Harwood's additional annotation 'Ex dono executoris'; Letters, 1966; Selected Essays, 1969); 

16 without Harwood's ownership inscriptions, but including Kilby (ed.), A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, 1968 (with laid-in typed letter signed to Harwood from publisher Jocelyn Gibb), The Literary Impact of the Authorised Version, 1950 (with ownership inscription of Owen Barfield to initial blank), and Mark vs. Tristram: Correspondence between C. S. Lewis and Owen Barfield, 1967 (with autograph letter signed to Harwood from editor Walter Hooper); 

and 3 other works, not by Lewis, including Owen Barfield, What Coleridge Thought, 1972 (inscribed by the author 'Cecil Harwood, with love, Owen Barfield, 1972'), Kilby (ed.), A Mind Awake, 1st US edition, 1969 (inscribed 'To Laurence Harwood, Clyde S. Kilby'), and one other (qty: 26)

(Albert) Cecil Harwood (1898-1975) met Lewis at Oxford in Hilary term of 1919. The two became lifelong friends, and while Cecil is not typically reckoned among the usual roll-call of Inklings members, he remained very much part of Lewis's circle, and is perhaps best remembered as a leading advocate of anthroposophy and the Steiner-Waldorf teaching method. The lot is also sold with a typed letter signed from Rowan William as Archbishop of Canterbury (2012), and one autograph letter signed from each of Anthony Hopkins (who played C. S. Lewis in the film Shadowlands, 1993) and Walter Hooper (literary executor of Owen Barfield), all to Laurence Harwood, and a collection of copied letters and documents including from C. S. Lewis. Provenance: Laurence Harwood OBE (1933-2020), regional director, National Trust, son of Cecil Harwood, and godson of C. S. Lewis, noted as 'one of the few remaining people who really knew C. S. Lewis' (Deborah Higgens, 'A Personal Tribute to Laurence Harwood, OBE', C. S. Lewis Foundation official blog, 14 December 2020, accessed 24 May 2021). Further reading: Laurence Harwood, C. S. Lewis, My Godfather: Letters, Photos, and Recollections (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2007).