Golding, William.

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Description

Lord of the Flies. London: Faber and Faber, 1954

first edition of the author's first novel signed by the author on title-page, 8vo, original red cloth lettered in white on spine, dust-jacket, collector's green cloth folding box with copy of dust-jacket spine reproduced on spine, minor spotting to endpapers, minor spotting to dust-jacket, dust-jacket slightly frayed at extremities

Literature

Gekoski and Grogan A2(a)

Catalogue Note

a signed copy in jacket of golding's savage moral fable, the author's most important novel.

Published, in an edition of 3,040 copies, on 7 September 1954.