Close Quarters

New: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. Very good, ex-library book with expected markings, in a very good dustwrapper whose flaps are glued to the book pastedowns.

London: Faber and Faber, 1987. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. Top corners bumped, thus near fine in fine dustwrapper.

London: Faber and Faber. 1987. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Uncorrected proof copy. Signed by the author. Original green printed card covers in dustwrapper. An excellent fine, square and tight copy. Complete with the very good lightly rubbed and nicked proof state dustwrapper. Not price-clipped. Signed by the author in black ink on the… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 1987. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, with unclipped vg d/j, black boards clean with gilt titling on spine bright; pages tight and unmarked, slight foxing on top edges. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A sequel to RITES OF PASSAGE, set on board a ship on its way to Australia. A… Read more about this item

Faber & Faber, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Dust Jacket is in… Read more about this item

Faber & Faber, 1988-04-05. Paperback. Acceptable. 7x5x1. Wear to cover. Same day dispatch (Mon- Fri) from the UK if ordered by 1pm.

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1987. First printing. Signed by William Golding at front endpaper. Dk. blue boards, blind-stamped cover initials, black cloth spine wrap, gilt spine titles, as new. Pages fine, no writing. Dj lt. shelf wear; unclipped 16.95, protected in new clear sleeve. Very attractive. 281 pages. Insured post. … Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 10mo; pp 281; VG-/VG-; black spine with white text; dust jacket has slight wear to exterior; mylar wraps; cloth shows light wear to exterior; strong boards; text block has only light wear to exterior edges; light foxing to exterior head edge; interior clean; previous bookshop's sticker to ffep. 1316477. FP… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1987. Early printing of the author's sequel to the Booker Prize-winning novel Rites of Passage. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. To the Ends of the Earth, William Golding's great sea trilogy, presents the extraordinary story of a warship's troubled journey to Australia in the early 1800s. Told through the pages… Read more about this item

New: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1987. 1st US Edition; First Printing. 1/3 Cloth. 0374125104 . A handsome first US edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket; The Nobel Prize winner's sequel to one of his most admired novels, Rites of Passage, recoutns the further adventures of the eighteenth-century fighting ship, converted… Read more about this item

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Published (UK) 8th June, 1987,in an edition of 41,040 copies.] FINE-/FINE-. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,wrap-around,glossy black background with colour pictorial artwork illustration by Paul Hogarth with his facsimile printed signature to front panel of dw/dj,with capitalised,white-lettered author's name,white-lettered title, publisher's white-lettered colophon and other white-lettering within a white bordered,horizontally partioned rectangle… Read more about this item

Faber Faber Inc, 1988. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1987. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Yellow wrappers. Soiling else about near fine.

Faber and Faber, UK, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Hardcover. 281 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Faber and Faber, UK, 1987. First Edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in near fine condition and comes in very good dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Dust jacket has superficial rubbing.… Read more about this item

NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1987. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.

London: Faber and Faber, 1987. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22.25cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [iv],281,[3]pp. Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket (priced £9.95 net). The second volume in Golding's Sea Trilogy, written between 1980-1989.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. The sequel to Golding's Booker Prize winning novel "Rites of Passage." Both books combine with "Fire Down Below" to form his "To The Ends of The Earth" trilogy. A very near fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Kent: Guild Publishing, 1987. Book Club Edition. Cloth and boards. Fine/Fine. 8vo, black cloth, Mylar-protected dust jacket illustrated with a lamp by Paul Hogarth, 281 pages. Sequel to Rites of Passage. Exceptional Condition!

London : Faber & Faber, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 281p. ; 21cm. Subjects: Ocean travel ; Fiction.