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The Spire
William Golding
1964
Faber and Faber : London
7.5" by 5.5"
7-223pp
SUMMARY
The first edition of this popular novel from William Golding, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.
First Edition,Publishers' Original Binding,With Dustwrapper
Overall Condition: Very Good Indeed
This book weighs 0.5 KG when packed
UK Postage: £ 3.99
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EU Postage: £ 13.99
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DESCRIPTION
The first edition, first impression of this novel from Nobel Prize for Literature winning author William Goldman, best known for 1954s 'The Lord of the Flies'. In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper, designed by Jack Piper.
Following the central character's dream of constructing a 404-foot-high spire loosely based on Salisbury Cathedral, and using a stream of consciousness narrative to follow the increasingly fallible narrators demise as he chooses to follow his own will over the will of God.
Celebrated upon publication, and reviewed by Frank Kermode in the New York Review of Books as 'an entire original... remote from the mainstream, potent, severe, even forbidding'.
With a former owner's inscription to the front free endpaper, and instances of ink notations to margins of three pages, not affecting the text.
CONDITION
In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Minor shelf wear to back strip head and tail, with cloth clean and bright. Minor edge wear to dust wrapper back strip head and tail, with one small chip to back strip head. Rear wrap a touch age tone, with one small area of spotting. Former owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Ink notations to pages 36, 83, and 89, not affecting text. Pages otherwise clean and bright.
Overall Condition: Very Good Indeed Near Fine
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under 'condition'
Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
We only sell books in this condition where their rarity or value makes them
attractive none the less. Major defects will be described.
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