Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Golding, William. LORD OF THE FLIES. Coward-McCann, Inc., New York, 1955.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First American Edition (stated), first printing, hardcover. Quarter bound in tan cloth with green lettering on spine/textured green cloth-covered boards. 243 pages. Good with faded spine, light rubbing to bottom corners, two corners lightly bumped, and light wear to front cover near spine, in a fair dust jacket with lower 1/2" of spine missing, wear at spine and corners, many small holes from bookworms.
Seller: Ziebarth Books, Coal Valley, IL, U.S.A.
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. Coward-McCann, Inc, New York, 1955.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. 243pp. Original decorative brown cloth-backed boards. Published in 1954, Lord of the Flies was Golding's first novel. The content discusses how culture created by man fails, using as an example British schoolboys stuck on a deserted island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results. In 2005 this powerful work was chosen by Time magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to present. Head and tail of spine bumped with tiny closed tears. Rubbing on corners, boards slightly sunned. Tight copy with binding in good, interior in very good condition.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
William Golding. LORD OF THE FLIES. Coward - McCann, Inc, New York, 1955.
Price: US$574.95 + shipping
Description: Poor in a Very Good dust jacket. Ex-library. FEP loose. Front hinge cracked. Small stain on bottom of rear flap.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. Coward-Mccann, Inc, New York, 1955.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 243 pages; 1955 Coward-Mccann. HC/DJ 1st American edition, stated. Snugly bound and clean in original wraparound pictorial dust jacket lettered in yellow and white. Bound in quarter tan cloth backed spine and green and tan weave patterned paper covered boards. Usual light toning to the board edges; trace halo toning to endpages. Jacket corner clipped front flap with just a fragment of the original issue price showing. Very slight rubbing to jacket at spine ends; spine panel a trifle toned. A handsome and well preserved copy. NF/VG++
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. Coward-McCann, Inc, New York, 1955.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: 243 pages. 21 x 14 cm. First American of the British classic named to Modern Library's 100 Best Novels list of English-language novels published during the 20th century. GEKOSKI & GROGAN A2(B). In original unclipped dust wrapper, a few tiny spots of edge wear corners. Orig. quarter tan cloth spine stamped in green and darker striated tan and black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1955.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, bound in textured boards and beige cloth lettered in green and beige; unclipped pictorial dust jacket, with the slightest edge-wear. First American edition, first printing (stated "First Edition, 1955" on the verso). A striking copy of Golding's Nobel Prize-winning novel.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Golding, William.. Lord of the Flies.. Coward-McCann, Inc, 1955.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American Edition, First Printing. A Fine copy in caramel smooth cloth over grainy grey-green paper covered boards, in a Near Fine or better dustwrapper, not price-clipped. A clean example with no writing, foxing, toning, dogears, soil, no bumps, no fraying, no spotting. Unfaded dustwrapper with tiniest wear to points, flap-tips. 243pp. An immensely popular allegorical narrative about a group of boys stranded on a deserted island. Adapted to the cinema [Two Arts Ltd., 1963]. Scarce in this condition. Q16999
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. Coward-McCann, Inc, New York, 1955.
Price: US$5500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition stated, first printing. Fine, with a small indent to the bottom the textblock edge in a Very Fine unclipped dust jacket. An unbelievably fantastic and fresh copy, virtually as new.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.