Author: William Golding
Title: Rites of Passage
Description: London, Faber & Faber, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition of William Golding's award-winning novel 'Rites of Passage,' first in the celebrated 'Sea Trilogy.' The first edition, first impression of this work. Complete with unclipped dust wrapper.The first book in 'A Sea Trilogy', set in 1812 at the end of the Napoleonic war. The story follows a voyage of a group of Britons by sea to Australia in search of a new life. Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England, recording the tensions on the ancient warship. Winner of the Booker Prize.Written by William Golding, British novelist best known for his debut novel 'Lord of the Flies.' He was winner of 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature.  In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper unclipped and very smart with light shelf wear only, sunned to spine. Internally, binding firm, only pp. 233-36 loose but present. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.

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