LORD OF THE FLIES

First Folio Society edition, first printing and first edition with these illustrations. Publisher's original red cloth with title in black and silver to the spine, with wrap around black and silver illustration by Sam Weber, in the black card slipcase. Illustrated throughout with a frontispiece and five colour plates by Sam Weber. Preface by Ian McEwan. Printed on Abbey Wove paper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very lightly rubbed structurally sound slipcase.

William Golding's debut novel. Despite slow initial sales the novel became an international bestseller and indisputably, a classic of twentieth century literature.