Marrin's Bookshop

Item Description

8vo. 5.25 x 7.5 inches. 217 pp. Bound in original black cloth, gilt, in pictorial dust wrapper, which has minor edge wear and a few chips at head of spine; otherwise a very good copy. First edition of a novel by William Golding (1911-93), which consists of three separate tales of the narrator growing up in a small market town in the 1920s, and the resolution of the events years later.