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GOLDING, WILLIAM. Free Fall. Faber and Faber 1959, 1959.
Price: US$4.89 + shipping
Description: Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Golding, William.. Free Fall. London; Faber & Faber; 1959;, 1959.
Price: US$6.40 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Ex-Library Book. Has usual library markings Photograph available on request.
Seller: Goldstone Rare Books, Llandybie, CARMS, United Kingdom
Golding, William. Free Fall. Faber and Faber, London, 1959.
Price: US$6.69 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Slightly cocked spine, soiled edges, endpapers lightly foxed. Quote "Considered by some to be one of Golding's best, this book needs to be read more than once. Through its narrator's search for the point at which he lost his freedom -by implication, the freedom to be good - the novel strikes the reader most forcibly in its terrible demonstration of how we are born to hurt each other - and ourselves. A love story in which hate and cruelty play their parts, the narrative cycles back and forth through time in a series of spell-binding, concretely imagined episodes. 'People are the walls of our room, not philosophies.'"
Seller: FiSHWiSHING, Asquith, NSW, Australia
GOLDING, WILLIAM. Free Fall. Faber & Faber 1959, 1959.
Price: US$9.17 + shipping
Description: First edition, octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Golding, William. Free Fall. Faber, 1959.
Price: US$9.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good. Lightly used, may have light reading wear and/or publisher's or previous owner's markings, but NO markings in text. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore since 1992.
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Golding, William. Free Fall. Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1959.
Price: US$11.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boards are clean and unmarked other than some light fading and slight rubbing and bumping to edges. Page edges are a little browned but are otherwise clean and unmarked. The front end papers have some brown spotting and the previous owners signature in ink. Rear end papers have some brown spotting. The pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. First printing. No jacket.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
William Golding. Free Fall. Faber and Faber, 1959.
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Wear to cover edges. Poor dustjacket with tanning/considerable staining/scuffs/tears. Staining to textblock edges. Tanning to pages. Text good.
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
GOLDING, William.. FREE FALL.. Faber & Faber, 1959. First edition., 1959.
Price: US$13.38 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 251pp. A very good hardback copy with foxing to endpapers and edges of text block. In an edgeworn dust jacket with a marked back cover.
Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia
William Golding. Free Fall. Faber and Faber, London,, 1959.
Price: US$14.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: William Golding Free Fall Faber and Faber, London, 1959 1st edition cloth with dustjcket "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 Fall Sammy 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. "some jacket wear, marks, inside clean and tight, some foxing spots front and back pages, clean and tight otherwise"
Seller: Sheapast Art and Books, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
William Golding. Free Fall. London: Faber and Faber, 1959.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 5 1/4" x 7 1/2" high. 253 pages. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine on spine. Condition of book is VERY GOOD; Endpapers lightly foxed, light stain on fore edge of text block, does not penetrate at all into pages. Text is clean & complete. Binding is tight. 0.0
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Golding, William. Free Fall. Faber and Faber, London, 1959.
Price: US$16.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 215 Pages. Previous owner's name stamped on bottom page edges. Some underlining and marginal notes on pages 9, 12, 13, and 15. Small Foyles of London bookstore label on front endpaper. No other defects noted and remaining pages are flawless. Dust jacket flap has a small (about 1 inch) of light blue ink scribbling. 15s jacket price is not clipped. Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War Two, 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 transfigured from his ordeal, and begins to realise what man can be and what he has gradually made of himself through his own choices. But did those accumulated choices also begin to deprive.
Seller: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Golding, William. Free Fall. Faber & Faber, London, 1959.
Price: US$17.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Book NEAR FINE minor fading to spine extending to portion of rear panel ; dust jacket FINE 1/4" tear at top of rear panel
Seller: Barrister, Inc., Davie, FL, U.S.A.
Golding, William. Free Fall. London: Faber & Faber, 1959.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. volume. Condition: DJ slightly chipped with minor toning; volume slightly cocked; else VG/VG. 253 pages.
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Golding, William. Free Fall. Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1959.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: pp. 253. 8vo. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Light shelfwear. Dustjacket age toned and worn to edges; very good+ in very good dustjacket.
Seller: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
GOLDING, WILLIAM. Free Fall. Faber and Faber 1959, 1959.
Price: US$21.10 + shipping
Description: First edition, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Golding, William.. Free Fall.. Faber & Faber, London, 1959.
Price: US$21.94 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Spine cocked, otherwise very good; DJ discouloured, torn and slightly chipped at top of spine and front cover
Seller: Primrose Hill Books BA, London, United Kingdom
Golding, William. Free Fall. Faber and Faber. First English edition, London, 1959.
Price: US$23.42 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Sammy Mountjoy is interviewed; the author's fourth novel. Owner signature, canted, foxing. Good only in dustwrapper.
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
Golding, William. Free Fall. Faber & Faber, London, 1959.
Price: US$23.42 + shipping
Description: Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. DJ spine is very mildly age-toned with some chipping to ends. Mild chipping to DJ corners. 253 pages. Golding's fourth book which explores freedom of choice with the protagonist being a British POW in a German camp during Word War Two. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
Seller: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
Golding, William. Free Fall. Faber & Faber, London, 1959.
Price: US$25.67 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Po name in ink on ffep. Else clean and very good. Red cloth cover with gilt title on spine. The blue dj is a little foxed at the back and worn at the top edges. Very slightly cocked. Scan on request. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Amolib Books, Oxford, OXON, United Kingdom
GOLDING,WILLIAM. Free Fall. faber and faber london 1959, 1959.
Price: US$25.99 + shipping
Description: first edition 253pp VG+ (red cloth,v.sl.bumps to extrems.,dealer's stamp to ffep,prelims.and edges sl.foxed,sl.cocked) in VG+ d/w (sl.soiled w.sl.sunned spine,minor wear to extrems.w.minor worm holes to rear flap hinge) review from 1959 times literary supplement loosely inserted
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
GOLDING, William. Free Fall. Faber & Faber, London, 1959.
Price: US$28.23 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The book is bright and fim with a little dustiness to the edges of the textblock, signature on fep. The dj, unclipped, is ssomewhat shelfworn with slight fraying to the top edge Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: LONGLAND BOOKS, Totteridge, LDN, United Kingdom
Golding, William. Free Fall. Faber and Faber, London, 1959.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Golding, William. Free Fall. Faber & Faber, 1959.
Price: US$32.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 'Free Fall' by William Golding. Faber & Faber 1959 first edition. A little light foxing and the book sits slightly off square. VG in dust jacket with a hint of fraying to the spine tips.
Seller: D & M Books, PBFA, Mirfield, United Kingdom
GOLDING, WILLIAM. Free Fall. Faber, London, 1959.
Price: US$32.08 + shipping
Description: First edition. A nice copy in dustwrapper, very slightly rubbed at extremities of spine and with trivial soiling to lower panel.
Seller: Peter Grogan, London, United Kingdom
William Golding. Free Fall(Hardback,w/dust jacket,1st Edition,1959). Faber and Faber, 1959.
Price: US$32.08 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Free Fall by William Golding, 1st Edition,1959, Published by Faber and Faber, Printed in Great Britain by Latimer Trend and Co.,Ltd, Hardback,has some fading to covers and spine, Dust jacket, has fading and yellowing to jacket, with slight tearing to head and tail of spine of jacket, All pages appear present, Pages are yellowing,
Seller: Codex Books, York, United Kingdom
Golding, William. Free Fall. London: Faber and Faber,, 1959.
Price: US$36.37 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Shelf 72 . Sound, tight, lightly read, if at all. Dustjacket sound and complete, edgeworn, small chip out of bottom front edge. Red cloth, jacket blue and white (Anthony Gross design), author name in red, title in black, back panel white, lightly soiled, with blurbs for Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria quartet. No marks on book, jacket not price clipped.
Seller: BookManBookWoman Books, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$44.91 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Published in 1959 this is the First Edition of the novel “Free Fall” by William Golding, the author of “Lord of the Flies”, this example has a unique hand painted dustjacket, done very close to the time of publication, the inside flap of the jacket is credited to a Sheila, and dated February 1960 the jacket has mild edge wear else in good condition, books covers clean, internally endpapers noticeably foxed and browned, there is a former owners blind embossed stamp to the front endpaper, an Edward F. Cass. Rest of contents generally clean, AN INTERESTING EXAMPLE OF THE FIRST EDITION WITH A UNIQUE HAND PAINTED DUSTJACKET
Seller: Andrew Cox PBFA, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Golding, William. Free Fall. Faber & Faber, 1959.
Price: US$57.75 + shipping
Description: 185 x 121mm, madder red cloth, spine lettered & ornamented in gilt, pp.254 + final blank leaf. Dye lightened at foot of upper cover where 'Boots Library' shield has been removed, spine very slightly rubbed.
Seller: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Golding, William. Free Fall. London: Faber & Faber, 1959, London, 1959.
Price: US$57.75 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Red cloth with gold lettering in a dustwrapper illustrated by Anthony Gross. Very good book a bit dustsoiled on the top edge and some browning to the page edges, with owners name and date in ink on the front free endpaper, in a good dustwrapper with some wear to the corners, chipping to the spine ends, a few short edge tears and browning to the edges and back panel.
Seller: Jacques Gander, Fairford, United Kingdom
GOLDING, William. Free Fall. Faber and Faber, London, 1959.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Topedge with a few faint spots, corners lightly bumped, about near fine in a price-clipped very good dust jacket with slight tanning, modest edgewear and a few short tears. Author's fourth novel, of an English painter who is a German prisoner of war during WWII.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
William Golding. Free Fall Special Collection. Faber, 1959.
Price: US$61.72 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition thus, fine condition. Free Fall Special Collection by William Golding. Published by Faber in 1959. Paperback. What makes this title so special is its limited availability. - Publishers Weekly. Collectible item in excellent condition.
Seller: Collectors' Bookstore, Deurne, Belgium
GOLDING, William. Free Fall. London: Faber and Faber, 1959.
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first impression. Octavo. Bound in red cloth covered hard boards and in the original un-clipped dust jacket (15s net). Previous owner's name and date to the front end-paper. Very Good book in Very Good jacket which has wear and tears at the head of the spine but no loss.
Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom
Golding, William.. Free Fall.. Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1959.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Impression of the British Edition. A Fine copy in rose cloth, in a Very Good Plus pale blue dustwrapper, not price-clipped, no fading, with minute wear to spine ends, and one short closed tear top front spinefold. 253pp. Fourth novel by the Nobel Prize winner. Q08654
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
GOLDING, William.. FREE FALL.. Faber & Faber,, London,, 1959.
Price: US$77.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Original publisher's brown printed wraps with the words 'Proof Copy' across middle of front cover. pp 253. Fiction. Slight wrinkling at spine, slight tanning, very slight creasing at edges otherwise sound clean VG.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Golding, William. Free Fall. Faber and Faber, 1959.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first edition, published by Faber in 1959. The author's fourth book, reportedly printed in a run of 7,500 copies. A near fine example of the book with a trace of edge rubbing in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to the spine ends and the lower front corner.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
GOLDING, William. Free Fall. Faber and Faber, London, 1959.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Uncorrected proof. Printed wrappers. Cocked, a couple of narow creases on the front wrap, good or better. Uncommon uncorrected proof of author's fourth novel, of an English painter who is a German prisoner of war during WWII.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Golding, William.. FREE FALL.. FABER. LONDON 1959, 1959.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine in price-clipped near fine dust jacket. (Small chip at head of rear panel. 1"- inch closed tear at base of front cover. 1/2"- inch tear at crest of spine on jacket. A few small edge tears on rear panel. Corner crease on one page in text. ) Author's FOURTH book.
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Golding, William. Free Fall. Faber and Faber,, 1959.
Price: US$107.79 + shipping
Description: Hardback. 253pp. First edition. Dust jacket illustrated by Anthony Gross. Signed by the classicist Stephen Ryle to a family member and dated 1959. REd cloth with gilt titles to spine is very neat. Hint of sunning to very edges of cloth. Dust jacket is slightly faded and a little dusty with some short tears and creasing to the head of the dust jacket spine. Not price clipped. Very good copy in good dust jacket Very good copy in good dust jacket
Seller: C L Hawley (PBFA), Skipton, YORKS, United Kingdom
GOLDING, William.. Free Fall.. Faber and Faber, London., 1959.
Price: US$109.08 + shipping
Description: Proof copy of the first edition. Wrappers. Octavo. 253 pages.Spine slightly darkened. Near fine.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
WILLIAM GOLDING. FREE FALL. FABER & FABER, LONDON, 1959.
Price: US$109.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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 FOXING TO ENDPAPERS. OVERALL A LOVELY COPY WITH MINOR FAULTS ONLY. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JACKET HAS SOME REFLECTIONS PRESENT IN IMAGES FROM THE CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Golding, William:. Free Fall. london, Faber & Faber,, 1959.
Price: US$110.21 + shipping
Description: 253S Erste Ausgabe, innen sauber und frisch, der farbige SU mit kleinen Einrissen am Kaptal. Etwas leseschief. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 8°,orig. roter Ganzleinen mit RT; SU
Seller: Antiquariat Thomas Schneider, Diessen am Ammersee, Germany
William Golding. Free Fall. Faber, London, 1959.
Price: US$115.49 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardback - A near fine book with clean un faded red boards. Very clean pages with just a touch of foxing to the page block. No owner names or inscriptions, in a very good or slightly better dust wrapper that has not been price clipped. No loss or chips. An attractive example of an uncommon title.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom
William Golding. Free Fall. Faber, 1959.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: minor pencil annotations dj. a little worn Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada
GOLDING, William. Free Fall. Faber and Faber, London, 1959.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
GOLDING, William.. Free Fall.. Faber and Faber, London, 1959.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 253 pp. 12mo, publisher's printed wrappers. First edition; uncorrected proof copy. Very near fine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
GOLDING, William (1911-1993). Free Fall. London: Faber and Faber, 1959, 1959.
Price: US$128.33 + shipping
Description: [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, tearing to base and crown of spine. Very good. 'Free Fall' is William Golding's fourth novel; it is written in the first person and follows the character of Samuel Mountjoy, a painter who is held in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. Faber and Faber argue on the blurb that Golding has 'established for himself a place in English literature that is likely to be permanent' due to his 'passionate concern for the human condition', and reflecting on this statement some 50 years later one can only agree with their estimation.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
William Golding. FREE FALL ( proof copy ). Faber and Faber, London , UK, 1959.
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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" tall
Seller: Gibbs Books, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.
Golding, William. Free Fall. Faber and Faber, London, 1959.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Faber, 1959. First edition, 4th book, NF/VG+.
Seller: Blue Skye Books, Novato, CA, U.S.A.
Golding, William. FREE FALL. Faber & Faber, 1959.
Price: US$156.60 + shipping
Description: FREE FALL, Faber & Faber, 1959, lst ed., vg+/near fine in like dust-wrapper save for a couple of minor stains to the dust-wrapper.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
GOLDING, William. Free Fall. Faber & Faber, London, 1959.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Gift inscription else near fine in near fine dustwrapper with some faint stains on the front panel. Nobel laureate's third book.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Golding, William. Free Fall. London Faber and Faber Limited 1959, 1959.
Price: US$189.92 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, first impression. Publisher's dark red cloth with gilt lettering and ornamental rule to spine. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Octavo. pp. 256. A book in Near Fine condition, with slight spine lean, in a Near Fine dust-jacket which is not price-clipped. Gekoski and Grogan A6(a).
Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom
Golding, William. Free Fall. London; Faber & Faber; 1959;, 1959.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st ed.; VG/VG
Seller: Walt Barrie Rare Books, gleneden beach, OR, U.S.A.
Golding, William. Free Fall. Faber, London, 1959.
Price: US$224.57 + shipping
Description: 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 author's fourth novel. Gekoski & Grogan A6a. Gekoski & Grogan A6a
Seller: Neil Pearson Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
GOLDING William. Free Fall. , 1959.
Price: US$242.54 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo., original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. London, Faber and Faber. Published on 23rd October. A near fine copy in dust jacket.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Golding, William. Free Fall - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Faber and Faber, London, 1959.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A handsome first Printing of the First Edition in Near Fine condition with the slightest rubbing to the outer board edges, housed in a Fine dust-jacket. A nice copy of one of Golding's most moving works; A First Edition of Golding's fourth book that is set in England and in a POW camp in Germany. It follows the life of a bastard born in a rural slum who was taken in by a local vicar, fell in and out of love and spent time in a prisoner of war camp ; 8vo; 253 pages
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Golding, William. FREE FALL. Faber and Faber, London, 1959.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. 7500 copies printed. The author's fourth novel. "According to [Arthur T.] Broes, FREE FALL 'is the most openly optimistic of Golding's novels, stating explicitly what he had earlier suggested only implicitly. Man is a flawed and imperfect vessel. Nevertheless there is a spiritual dimension to him and his universe ." - Harte and Riley (eds), 200 Contemporary Authors, p. 127. Gekoski and Grogan A6a. Slight spine lean, a fine copy in fine dust jacket with several faint fox marks on rear panel. (#65699)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
GOLDING, William. Free Fall. Faber & Faber, London, 1959.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 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.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
GOLDING, William.. Free Fall.. Faber and Faber, London., 1959.
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 253 pages.Signed by the author on the front free endpaper.Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper with a couple of nicks and a 1cm closed tear.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Goulding, William. The Fall. Faber and Faber, 1959.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Faber and Faber, London,1959. First Edition. 253pp. Hardcover: VERY GOOD. Dust Wrapper: NEAR FINE. Clean leaves, bright lettering on spine, which is slightly pushed; minor toning and smudges to the text block. Wrapper is unclipped and bright, with modest wear. SIGNED and dated by the author. Golding's fourth novel, Free Fall is written in the first person and is a self-examination of fictional painter Samuel Mountjoy, who is held in a German POW camp during the Second World War.
Seller: Bynx, LLC, Orlando, FL, U.S.A.
Golding, William. Free Fall. London; Faber & Faber; 1959;, 1959.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st ed; F/VG+ with very light edge wear and a small closed tear on back panel; SIGNED by author on front free endpaper.
Seller: Walt Barrie Rare Books, gleneden beach, OR, U.S.A.
Golding, William. Free Fall. Faber & Faber, 1959.
Price: US$535.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Light edgewear and discoloration to dust jacket; light soiling to page edges; o/w VG+/VG+; signed by William Golding on a book plate that is attached to the front free end paper; pictures available upon request
Seller: Evergreen Books LLC, Lakewood, CO, U.S.A.
Golding, William. Free Fall. Faber and Faber, London, 1959.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the words "First Published in mcmlxvii" printed on the copyright page. A beautiful copy SIGNED by William Golding on the title page. This First Issue dustjacket has the publisher's 15 s net printed price present on the front flap with minor wear the edges. The book is bound in the publisher's cloth and is in great shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy SIGNED by the author.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Golding, William. Free Fall. Faber and Faber, London, 1959.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the words "First Published in mcmlix" printed on the copyright page. A beautiful copy SIGNED by William Golding on the title page. This First Issue dustjacket has the publisher's 15 s net printed price present on the front flap with minor wear the edges. The book is bound in the publisher's cloth and is in great shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy SIGNED by the author.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.