William Golding — The Spire

London, Faber and Faber, 1964 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this popular novel from William Golding, in the publisher's original dust wrapper. 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&apos. In the publisher's original clipped 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&apos. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with clipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart, with faint tide mark to tail of front board, penetrating to front pastedown. Light tide mark to tail and fore edge of dust wrapper front wrap, with faint handling marks to perimeters of rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good Indeed.