William Golding — Free Fall

London, Faber and Faber, 1959 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of William Golding's fourth novel about an English painter held in a German POW camp, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's original red cloth binding. In the original unclipped dust wrapper.  A work by William Golding, a British novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies. Written in the first person, it is a self-examination by an English painter, Samuel Mountjoy, held in a German POW camp during World War II. In the publisher's original cloth binding. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Very light spotting and offsetting to endpapers. Dust wrapper with sunning to spine, chipping and closed tears to extremities, and light spotting. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good/Very Good.