GOLDING, William.
Lord of the Flies.
"The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream": First Edition of The Lord of the Flies; Inscribed by William Golding
London: Faber and Faber, 1954.
$42,500.00
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Item Number: RRB-148813
* Custom Clamshell Boxes are hand made by the Harcourt Bindery upon request and take approximately 60 days to complete
First edition of Golding's first book, one of the best-known works in modern literature. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To John Milne with best wishes Bill Golding 5/10/55." Near fine in a very good first-issue dust jacket. Jacket design by Anthony Gross. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. An exceptional example, most rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
"A collection of modern fiction would never be complete without it" (Connolly, 136). Originally published in 1954, The Lord of the Flies was named to Modern Library’s 100 Greatest Novels List of the twentieth century. "[T]his brilliant work is a frightening parody on man's return (in a few weeks) to that state of darkness from which it took him thousands of years to emerge. Fully to succeed, a fantasy must approach very close to reality. Lord of the Flies does. It must also be superbly written. It is" (The New York Times Book Review). It has been adapted to film twice, in 1963 by Peter Brook and again 1990 by Harry Hook.
Lord of the Flies.
$42,500.00
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