Darkness Visible
by GOLDING, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0374135029
- ISBN 13
- 9780374135027
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar - Straus - Giroux. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1979. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0374135029 . A stated first American edition, 1979. William Golding's novel is the story of Matty, a boy who emerges from the London blitz with severe disfigurement of his face, despite which he develops into a person of selfless kindness. --- In gold paper-covered boards backed in black cloth, with gilt-stamped spine titling and gold topstain. Jacket features Russell Drysdale's "The Rainmaker" to front panel. --- A clean, tightly-bound, bright copy but with a couple of mild black streaks to front cover. Unclipped jacket with a little creasing to extremities, else bright, inact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (12), 9-265 pages .
Synopsis
Darkness Visible by William Golding is a bleak tale of Matty and the people who cross his path. Matty was terribly burned in the London Blitz, and has to endure taunting for his horrible scars for the rest of his life. He finds two girls, twins, who are also lost children at heart.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86090
- Title
- Darkness Visible
- Author
- GOLDING, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374135029
- ISBN 13
- 9780374135027
- Publisher
- Farrar - Straus - Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- 0374135029
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
Bluebird Books is the bookselling business of Eric Mayer, operating from my base in Littleton, Colorado. I specialize in classic fiction and literature, books on birds and natural history, railroadiana, biography, history and many other genres. Bluebird Books features publications by the Modern Library and Everyman's Library. I offer free shipping on books shipped within the US via USPS Media Mail. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: I recommend that you use Biblio.com for your international orders because they have formed a partnership with Asendia to allow for much more affordable shipping on parcels weighing under 5 lb. (about 2.26 kg).
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- Jacket
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- Octavo
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
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- Good+
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