Author: GOLDING, WILLIAM
Title: Close Quarters
Description: New York: Farrar - Straus - Giroux, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0374125104. Stated first printing. An American edition of William Golding's novel, set onboard a retired Britsh Navy warship which has been converted to carry passengers to Australia. Along the way, an error by a young officer leads to severe damages to the ship, endangering the ship and her passengers. This is the second entry in the author's "To the Ends of the Earth" trilogy. Mr. Golding won fame for his debut 1954 novel, "The Lord of the Flies" and was awarded both the Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. --- In blue paper-covered boards backed in black cloth with spine titling in gilt. Dust jacket with Mark Gerson photographic portrait of the author to back panel. --- An excellent copy: bright, newish and tightly-bound. Intact, unclipped dust jacket with mild rubbing, else nice and protected in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (6), 281 pages. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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