Lot 474
Golding, William
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
£938
Description
Lord of the flies. London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1954. First edition, 8vo., publisher's cloth, pictorial dustwrappers, extremities of the wrappers chipped with small loss at head of spine, partial fading of the lower wrapper, inside fold of the lower wrapper stamped "23 Sep 1954", slightly skewed in binding
Footnote
Note: Loosely inserted is a TLS signed by Golding to a Mr Pearce promising Salisbury Library a bibliography of the author's critical writings and referring to being miscalled a "Manichee several
times."