Golding, Lord of the Flies, 1954, signed, rare binding

GOLDING, WILLIAM

Lord of the Flies. Faber and Faber, 1954

8vo, first edition of the author's first novel, SIGNED BY GOLDING ON FRONT ENDPAPER, TRIAL BINDING OF ORIGINAL GREYISH-PURPLISH BLUE CLOTH, dust-jacket, a touch of spotting to jacket and a few leaves, OTHERWISE FINE

A SIGNED COPY OF THE AUTHOR'S SEMINAL RE-INTERPRETATION OF THE CLASSIC ENGLISH ADVENTURE STORY, IN THE VERY RARE TRIAL BINDING. As recorded by the bibliographers "there was a trial binding in greyish purplish blue cloth (204) of which four copies [including this one] have been located".

"Lord of the Flies is not an examination of the idiosyncratic nature of a group of young English boys, but of the essential nature of humanity itself, its predisposition to violence and cruelty when removed from the restraining influences of civilization..." (Kevin McCarron, Oxford DNB)

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