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 price unclipped 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 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&apos.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. 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. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Near Fine.