Free Fall
by Golding, William
"I was standing up, pressed back against the wall, trying not to breathe. I got there in the one movement my body made. My body had many hairs on legs and belly and chest and head, and each had its own life; each inherited a hundred thousand years of loathing and fear for things that scuttle or slide or crawl." from Free FallSammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is taken as a prisoner-of-war, threatened with torture, then locked in a cell of total darkness to wait. He emerges from his cell like Lazarus from the tomb, seeing infinity in a grain of sand and eternity in an hour. Transfigured by his ordeal, he begins to realize what man can be and what he has gradually made of himself through his own choices. He determines to find the exact point at which the accumulated weight of those choices has deprived him of free will.
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Free Fall
by Golding, William
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New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1960. First American edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, not illustrated. Book has rubbing and mild wear to boards, binding tight, endpapers gently foxed and off-set, otherwise clean and unmarked but faintly toned throughout, with foxing to edges of block. DJ has toning, sun, edgewear, foxing,… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: Faber & Faber, 1959. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a small tear on the front panel. A very nice copy of the Nobel Laureate's third book. Item Price
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London: Faber, 1959. 8vo., pp. 253. Original red boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Small name to ffep. and very slight lean to spine, otherwise a near fine copy with very slight browning to preliminaries, in a near fine dustwrapper with slight creasing to top edge of rear panel and spine. One of 7500 copies of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Faber and Faber, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Very good in a near fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED on the front free endpage by author. First U.K. edition with no mention of later printings. Original price of 15s printed on front flap of dust jacket. Book very slightly leaning. Previous owner's name written on front free endpage… Read more about this item Item Price
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by William Golding
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Buffalo, New York, USA
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London , UK: Faber and Faber, 1959. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition.. True1st. Edition / Printing 1959 , Stiff paper wraps , 253 page book . A proof copy edition of this great novel by William Golding .A very scarce book in the condition . Condition : Very Good PLUS . Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾"… Read more about this item Item Price
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Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin. Covers dusty, minor wear and natural paperback ageing. No inscriptions. . Good. Paperback. First Thus. 1963. Item Price
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London: Faber & Faber, 1959. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Gift inscription else near fine in near fine dustwrapper with some faint stains on the front panel. Nobel laureate's third book. Item Price
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1960. First American Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo, black cloth with silver gilt spine lettering, Mylar-protected white lettered, purple dust jacket (unclipped), [i-iv], 5-253 pages. William Golding (1911-1993) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. He was knighted in 1988, and was awarded the prestigeous Booker prize in 1980. The… Read more about this item Item Price
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Free Fall
by William Golding
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Gardners Books. Used - Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included. Item Price
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Free Fall
by William Golding
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BATH, Somerset, GBR
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London: Penguin Books, 1966. Paperback. Very Good. 7" by 4.5". None. A signed, paperback copy of William Golding's critically acclaimed novel 'Free Fall'. An early edition of the novel, which is signed by the author to the first leaf. 'Free Fall' is written in the first person and is a self-examination of fictional painter Samuel Mountjoy, who is… Read more about this item Item Price
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Free Fall
by GOLDING, William
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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London: Faber and Faber, 1959. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Printed wrappers. Topedge lightly foxed, pages and wrappers with faint creasing, edges of wrappers and spine slightly tanned, very good. Uncommon uncorrected proof of author's fourth novel, of an English painter who is a German prisoner of war during WWII. Item Price
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Free Fall: A Novel
by William Golding
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Lexington, Missouri, USA
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Harcourt Brace, 1960. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/Poor. Illustrator: . Heavy wear to the top outer cover edges; pages yellowed; one paragraph is underlined in ink; a few stains; a reading copy. The jacket is chipped, torn and worn; cut across the front; price intact on the front flap. Illustrator: . Quantity… Read more about this item Item Price
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by GOLDING, William (1911-1993)
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London: Faber and Faber, 1959. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.523; [3], blank. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrative dust-jacket designed by Anthony Gross with printed price of 15s to front flap. Toning and spotting to edges of textblock especially along the top edge, sunning to dust-jacket, soiling to rear panel of jacket,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Free Fall
by William Golding
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London: Faber and Faber, 1988. Reprint . Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. this copy dated 1988,paperback,253 pages,very good.Shelf 152.
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Free Fall
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Faber and Faber Limited. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First edition, London, 1959. Book very good, with slight wear and fading at spine ends, very slight wear at corners, tiny dent near middle of vertical edge of front. DJ very good, with slight rubbing and slight chipping at spine ends and corners, slight discoloration along spine, top… Read more about this item Item Price
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FREE FALL
by WILLIAM GOLDING
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FABER & FABER, LONDON, 1959 FIRST PRINTING. HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING, ORIGINAL DUST JACKET PRICED AT 15s. HALF TITLE PRESENT. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES. MINOR EDGE WEAR TO JACKET WITH A COUPLE OF MINOR CHIPS OR SMALL TEARS TO JACKET, MINOR MARKS TO REAR OF JACKET, SMALL TAPE MARK TO INNER FRONT BOARD, VERY LIGHT… Read more about this item Item Price
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FREE FALL
by Golding, William
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Rockville, Maryland, USA
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1960. First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo; First American edition; G/G-; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, blue with white print; DJ has tears at spine ends and flap corners, edgewear, toning, shelfwear; Boards in black cloth with gold print, mildly cocked spine, bump to rear bottom edge, wear to spine caps; Text block has… Read more about this item Item Price
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Free Fall
by Golding, William
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Avon, Connecticut, USA
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London: Faber and Faber, 1959. First UK edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. Small clothbound octavo in dustwrapper. 253 pp. A novel by the author of Lord of the Flies. Jacket drawing by Anthony Gross. Light spotting to top edge. Slight spine roll. A very good copy in very good price-intact dustwrapper. Item Price
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Free Fall
by Golding, William
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Decatur, Georgia, USA
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New York: Harcourt, Brace & World/Harbinger Books, 1962 1st ed. thus. 253pp. paperback 8vo: near Very Good [ink name inside front cover; text is age browned; else a nice clean & tight copy] A POW camp novel, the fourth novel by the English Nobel Prize Literature Laureate Sir William Golding (1911-93). Item Price
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Free Fall
by GOLDING, William
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1960. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Easily erasable pencil name, fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper with some light fading on the spine and a little rubbing at the extremities. Nobel laureate's third book. Susceptible to wear, this is a much nicer than usual copy. Item Price
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