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Chronicles of Naria, book 1&2?

RhinoRhino TheRhinLOLRegistered User regular
edited December 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
At the thrift store today, I got Chronicles of Narnia books 3 though 7 for cheap. They are the paper backs, but in prefect condition. Anyone know were I could get books 1&2 ? I'd like to have a matching set so I could re-read them.

It's the 'generic' white paper backs:
(looks like these but without the color):

http://workbench.cadenhead.org/media/collier-chronicles-of-narnia-box.jpg

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  • DeShadowCDeShadowC Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Well one thing. Is it the first two books that came out, or the first two in time line order? These aren't the same.

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  • Gabriel_PittGabriel_Pitt Stepped in it Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    They number them in order of release, so he's looking for The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and Prince Caspian.

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  • yurnamehereyurnamehere Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Not necessarily. If the three he got were from a specific set, I've heard some sets order them chronologically story-wise.

    Although if they do match the picture that closely, then they're numbered by release order.

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  • SentrySentry Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    yeah, new versions are done with the Magician's Nephew as the first book. It really just depends.

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  • Kate of LokysKate of Lokys Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    It's going to be pretty tough for anybody from the internet to advise you without knowing anything about the books beyond a picture of something that actually isn't quite the right thing.

    Who's the publisher? What year were they printed?

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  • RhinoRhino TheRhinLOL Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Gabriel_Pitt wrote: »
    They number them in order of release, so he's looking for The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and Prince Caspian.

    yep, these two.

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  • RhinoRhino TheRhinLOL Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Kate of Lokys wrote: »
    It's going to be pretty tough for anybody from the internet to advise you without knowing anything about the books beyond a picture of something that actually isn't quite the right thing.

    Who's the publisher? What year were they printed?

    they don't have to be from this set specifically, all though I would prefer it.

    Books 1&2 in paper back, good condition and cheap are the only requirements.
    Same set is for bonus points :)

    I'll get the dates and other info when I get home, I don't have them on me.

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  • ThomamelasThomamelas Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Fastest info would be the ISBN on the book.

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  • RhinoRhino TheRhinLOL Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Fastest info would be the ISBN on the book.

    on the books I don't have or on the ones I do have?
    If I knew the isbns for the ones I didn't have, I won't be here :)

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  • ThomamelasThomamelas Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Rhino wrote: »
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Fastest info would be the ISBN on the book.

    on the books I don't have or on the ones I do have?
    If I knew the isbns for the ones I didn't have, I won't be here :)

    If you can get either, that works. ;)

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  • CorvusCorvus . VancouverRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I'd try your local used book store, if you're looking for ones that match your set.

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  • locomotivemanlocomotiveman Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    When books are sold in a set in chronological order where do they place "A Horse and His Boy"? I would think it would be 3 between "Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" and "Prince Caspian".

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  • DeShadowCDeShadowC Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    locomotiveman wrote: »
    When books are sold in a set in chronological order where do they place "A Horse and His Boy"? I would think it would be 3 between "Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" and "Prince Caspian".

    yep

    The Magician's Nephew
    The Lion the Witch, and the Wardrobe
    The Horse and His Boy
    Prince Caspian
    The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    The Silver Chair
    The Last Battle

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  • LewieP's MummyLewieP's Mummy Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Not to be picky, but that's not the order in which they were originally published, but here's what CS Lewis said himself about them. The Magician's Nephew was written some time after The lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe, but it does explain the origins of it all - I specially love the toffee tree and money tree.
    These are some of my all time favourite books - I first read them when I was 7, and one of my first purchases as an adult was a new full set - I had read my originals so much, the covers had fallen off. My second set was by a different publisher than the first set, and they had re-ordered the books putting The Magician's Nephew first, but I don't read it first.

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  • SentrySentry Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I honestly can't imagine reading the Magicians Nephew first and having it draw me in the way LtWatW did. But, additionally, when you read through them with the Magician's Nephew second or third to last, the whole origin story does seem to come out of left field.

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  • RhinoRhino TheRhinLOL Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Here are the books and other info:

    CS Lewis
    publisher: Harper Trophy

    Books 3 though 7.

    The order (from inside cover) in this edition is:
    (second number is ISBN from book)

    1: The Magician's Nephew

    2: The Loin, the Witch

    3: Horse and His Boy
    0-06-447106-3

    4. Prince Caspian
    0-06-447105-5

    5: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    0-06-447107-2

    6: Silver Chair
    0-06-447109-8

    7: The Last Battle
    0-06-447108-X



    How do I find ISBN for first two books? Amazon might have them.

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  • poshnialloposhniallo Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    0-06-447104-7

    0-06-447110-1.

    Lion and Nephew (sorry edit)
    Is that right? Do they match your books?

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  • HedgethornHedgethorn Associate Professor of Historical Hobby Horses In the Lions' DenRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    The ISBN numbers for the HarperTrophy versions of The Lion, et al. is 0064471047, and the ISBN for the Magician's Nephew is 0064471101. This is not entirely helpful, though, for it appears that HarperTrophy has reprinted the books--with the same ISBN but different cover art--since your set was printed.

    Still, if you look through the used copies on the two links I provided, you might find a match.

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  • QinguQingu Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Sentry wrote: »
    I honestly can't imagine reading the Magicians Nephew first and having it draw me in the way LtWatW did. But, additionally, when you read through them with the Magician's Nephew second or third to last, the whole origin story does seem to come out of left field.
    Agreed. Anyone who tries to put them in chronological order as opposed to order of publication is full of shit—C.S. Lewis included.

    For maximum connection to the storyline and world, you should really read them in the order they were published:
    1. Lion, Witch, Wardrobe
    2. Prince Caspian
    3. Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    4. The Silver Chair
    5. A Horse and his Boy
    6. The Magician's Nephew
    7. The Last Battle

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  • RhinoRhino TheRhinLOL Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Dam, that was fast!

    Thanks guys.

    I put those two used ones from Amazon in my cart and will get them the next time I build up to $25.00

    I don't think they are the same as the set I have, but should be fine since they are for reading and not collecting purposes.

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  • Kate of LokysKate of Lokys Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Search for those ISBNs on AbeBooks, and check that the year of publication is 1994, and you should be golden. For example, here's The Magician's Nephew in very good condition for $1 plus shipping. The photo looks wrong, but bear in mind that it's a stock photograph (as made painfully obvious by the fact that it shows the "hey, one of these books is now a movie!" sticker, despite being published 12 years before the movie came out). Just make sure the publication date is right, and you should get the right copy.

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  • DeShadowCDeShadowC Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Qingu wrote: »
    Sentry wrote: »
    I honestly can't imagine reading the Magicians Nephew first and having it draw me in the way LtWatW did. But, additionally, when you read through them with the Magician's Nephew second or third to last, the whole origin story does seem to come out of left field.
    Agreed. Anyone who tries to put them in chronological order as opposed to order of publication is full of shit—C.S. Lewis included.

    For maximum connection to the storyline and world, you should really read them in the order they were published:
    1. Lion, Witch, Wardrobe
    2. Prince Caspian
    3. Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    4. The Silver Chair
    5. A Horse and his Boy
    6. The Magician's Nephew
    7. The Last Battle

    I was just telling the chronological order, as sold, since someone asked. Really wouldn't recommend reading them in that order though.

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  • LewieP's MummyLewieP's Mummy Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    And just to add to the debate, I found this this evening.

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  • KalkinoKalkino Buttons Londres Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    The set of Narnia novels I read as a child are about 30-35 years old (at least), and they start off with The Magician's Nephew. I would suspect you would need to go right back to the original decade of publishing to get a set that goes in the published order.

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  • LewieP's MummyLewieP's Mummy Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    OK, I'll admit, I'm older than almost everyone on this forum, but they were originally published before I was born, and I read them in the originally published order, with Magician's Nephew being 6th.

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  • KalkinoKalkino Buttons Londres Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    LewiePs Mummy wrote: »
    OK, I'll admit, I'm older than almost everyone on this forum, but they were originally published before I was born, and I read them in the originally published order, with Magician's Nephew being 6th.

    Did you do that deliberately?

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  • HedgethornHedgethorn Associate Professor of Historical Hobby Horses In the Lions' DenRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Kalkino wrote: »
    The set of Narnia novels I read as a child are about 30-35 years old (at least), and they start off with The Magician's Nephew. I would suspect you would need to go right back to the original decade of publishing to get a set that goes in the published order.

    If you're American, Wiki disagrees with you.
    The first American publisher, Macmillan, put numbers on the books in the order in which they were published. When HarperCollins took over the series in 1994, the books were renumbered using the internal chronological order, as suggested by Lewis' stepson, Douglas Gresham.

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  • KalkinoKalkino Buttons Londres Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Hedgethorn wrote: »
    Kalkino wrote: »
    The set of Narnia novels I read as a child are about 30-35 years old (at least), and they start off with The Magician's Nephew. I would suspect you would need to go right back to the original decade of publishing to get a set that goes in the published order.

    If you're American, Wiki disagrees with you.
    The first American publisher, Macmillan, put numbers on the books in the order in which they were published. When HarperCollins took over the series in 1994, the books were renumbered using the internal chronological order, as suggested by Lewis' stepson, Douglas Gresham.

    Luckily I'm am not, so we can scratch up another avoided Wiki crisis.

    Anyway, I read in the chronological order and I do not believe it harmed my enjoyment in the slightest, as I've re-read the series at least half a dozen times since early childhood, most recently last year. On a related note one of the local newspapers gave away the audio version of Prince Caspian this year, no doubt as some sort of cross promotional event - it really is quite good

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  • LewieP's MummyLewieP's Mummy Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Kalkino wrote: »
    LewiePs Mummy wrote: »
    OK, I'll admit, I'm older than almost everyone on this forum, but they were originally published before I was born, and I read them in the originally published order, with Magician's Nephew being 6th.

    Did you do that deliberately?

    No, that's how they were ordered then. When the publisher changed, they were re-ordered.

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  • KalkinoKalkino Buttons Londres Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    LewiePs Mummy wrote: »
    Kalkino wrote: »
    LewiePs Mummy wrote: »
    OK, I'll admit, I'm older than almost everyone on this forum, but they were originally published before I was born, and I read them in the originally published order, with Magician's Nephew being 6th.

    Did you do that deliberately?

    No, that's how they were ordered then. When the publisher changed, they were re-ordered.

    Fair enough, no shame in being the plaything of the publisher.

    So I was reading The Voyage of the Dawntreader a year or so back - man, that opening paragraph really hurt, apparently I've become the kind of adult Lewis hated:(

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