William Golding — Rites of Passage

London, Faber & Faber, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of William Golding's award winning novel Rites of Passage, with the original dust wrapper. First edition. Written as the journal of a young aristocrat, Edmund Talbot, whose influential godfather has arranged for him to be employed with the Governor of New South Wales. This story details Talbot's account of a six-moth voyage to Australia in the early nineteenth century with a group of British migrants on a converted man-of-war. Written by William Golding, a British novelist, playwright, and poet best known for his novel Lord of the Flies. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with light shelf wear only. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with a small mark to the title page. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.