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GOLDING**, WILLIAM: : CLOSE QUARTERS. [2nd volume of 'THE SEA TRILOGY.']

LONDON.FABER & FABER LIMITED,1987.

ISBN 0571147798.

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 on front panel; spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered author+title as front and publisher's white-lettered colophon to foot of same,rear panel with b/w thumbnail author portrait photograph and a white-lettered synopsis.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present - some age-acquired minimal,minor and superficial scoring/indents indents but without penetration to boards beneath.Top edges with very faint minimal dust-flecking to outer fore-edges,a tiny blemish to interior edges at its head/headband vicinity but clean,fore-edges clean without foxing/spotting or other blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread,other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt-lettered spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-281pp [paginated] includes 17 chapters and a Postscriptum; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a title separator page,and to the rear 2pp blanks.                   Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 35+ -year-old age. It is only the minimal,minor exterior faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading.Despite them,it really is still an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of detracting faults.An important addition to Golding's collection of works. The sequel to one of William Golding's most admired novels,"Rites of Passage",winner of the Booker Prize in 1980,and the second volume of 'The Sea Trilogy',the third title being 'Fire Down Below'.                                      At the end of 'Rites of Passage',Edmund Talbot, through the self-immolation of the Revd James Colley and the sight of himself through someone else's eyes,is a sadder,wiser and different man from the ambitious.insufferable youth who stepped aboard at Tilbury.Initiation into manhood has been bitter and complete.            But after Colley's death there is still a long way to go.The elderly man o' war is laden with an assortment of men and women whose forced proximity has intensified their jealousies, lusts,friendships,loves and hatreds almost to explosion point; it is trapped by the torrid calm of the doldrums; it is helplessly encumbered by weed - green above,brown below - flourishing out of control beneath the waterline.Then,by a most extraordinary operation of the forces of nature,the situation is complicated almost beyond reason.There arrives not only a living ghost but,for Talbot,a totally new and wholly disorntating experience. At the close of the voyage is still unfinished. The final volume,still to come,will complete a trilogy which bids fare to be a major achievements of contemporary fiction.            Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,that stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of any inexpensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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