Darkness Visible

by Golding, William

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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Darkness Visible

by Golding, William

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1979
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New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1979. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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DARKNESS VISIBLE

DARKNESS VISIBLE

by Golding, William

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1979
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9780374135027
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New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 265 pages. The author's seventh novel. One of the finest English novels of the 20th century. The first appearance of the title in the United States.… Read more about this item
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Darkness Visible

Darkness Visible

by Golding, William

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1979
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Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Stated First American Edition.. Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979. Stated First American Edition. Near FIne/Very Good. Clean yellow boards with black cloth spine, bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing… Read more about this item
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Darkness Visible

Darkness Visible

by GOLDING, William

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1979
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London: Faber and Faber, 1979. 265 pages. Burgundy boards in jacket. Condition: The jacket is complete and unclipped, displaying the price £4.95. It is protected by a removable Brodart-type wrapper. The book has a splash-stain which affects the rear endpaper and part of the text-block edge. The pages edges are browning a little. Every book is sent in a rigid… Read more about this item
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1980
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London, UK: Faber & Faber, 1980 265 pages. Tight binding with uncreased spine and covers. Paper edge light browning and minor edge rubbing.. First Faber Paperbacks. Trade Paperback. Very Good Plus.
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DARKNESS VISIBLE

by Golding, William.

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1979.
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New York:: Farrar Straus Giroux,, 1979.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in like dustjacket.. First US printing. The story of Matty, who as a boy who survived the London blitz but orphaned and horribly scarred - set apart from others by his disfigurement, his life is the result of "darkness visible." 265 pp,
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Darkness Visible

Darkness Visible

by Golding, William

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Used - G: in good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. Fading to top edge of cover. Page edge browning
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First Edition
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1979
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Maroon hardback cloth cover
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9780571114542
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London: Faber & Faber Ltd. G: in good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. Fading to top edge of cover. Page edge browning. 1979. First Edition. Maroon hardback cloth cover. 210mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 265pp. .
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Darkness Visible

Darkness Visible

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London: Faber and Faber, 1979. UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY. Publisher's blue soft back as issued. Small stain to upper; fading to spine; internally clean. A sound copy. William Golding won the 1979 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the 1980 Booker Prize and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983.
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by Golding, William

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1979
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9780571114542
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London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1979. Hardcover. First edition. Superficial marks and light scores on jacket. Jacket and hardcover spine heads are bumped. Page block and pages are tanned. Text is clear throughout. Volume is cocked but binding remains intact. HCW. Hardcover. Good/Good. Used.
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Darkness Visible

by Golding, William

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1979
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Faber, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Tight and sound copy. Text block browning a little as usual. Dust wrapper not price clipped. Old ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction Classic & Modern; ISBN: 0571114547. ISBN/EAN: 9780571114542. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available… Read more about this item
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Darkness Visible

Darkness Visible

by Golding, William

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1979
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London: Faber and Faber, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Full burgundy paper boards. 365 pp. Interior is age toned. Dust jacket is price clipped. Else fine.
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DARKNESS VISIBLE.

DARKNESS VISIBLE.

by Golding, William.

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First Edition
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1979
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Hardcover
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9780571114542
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London: Faber and Faber, 1979. 265 pp, 8vo (8" H). "Matty appears out of the flaming destruction of the Blitz. Who is he? Is he more or less than an ordinary human? Is the journal he keeps madness or inspiration? The twins are young enough to be his daughters: Sophy - dark, amoral, cruel; and Toni - fair, brilliant,… Read more about this item
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Darkness Visible

Darkness Visible

by William Golding

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Used - Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
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First Edition Thus
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1979
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Hardcover
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9780374135027
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Near Fine copy with a light bump the spine heel front corner in Fine Dust Wrapper. bx91
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Darkness Visible

Darkness Visible

by GOLDING, William

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1979
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Near fine with a little staining on the foredge, in a near fine dustwrapper with light wear at the top of the spine. A novel.
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Darkness Visible

Darkness Visible

by GOLDING, William

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1979
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9780374135027
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New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Small pen notation on front endpaper, near fine in near fine lightly edgeworn dustwrapper.
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DARKNESS VISIBLE

DARKNESS VISIBLE

by Golding, William

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Used - Good
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First Thus
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1981
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Mass Market Paperback
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9780553147049
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New York: Bantam [Windstone] Books [1981]. Good. 1981. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. 0553147048 . First edition thus. 292 pages. VG or better copy [slight spine cocking, light creasing, cheap paper starting to tan] save for speck-like flaking/wear to the front cover. .
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Darkness Visible

Darkness Visible

by Golding, William

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First Edition
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1979
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London: Faber and Faber, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Toning to pages, else clean and unmarked. Bound handsomely in burgundy cloth, with sharp… Read more about this item
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Darkness Visible

by Golding, William

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by GOLDING, WILLIAM

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1979
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Hardcover
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9780571114542
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London: Faber, 1979. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition.. 265pp; Slight yellowing to edges else a clean and bright copy; Previous owner's signature to f.e.p.; Unclipped d/w; Size: 8vo.
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Darkness Visible

by Golding, William

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1981
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Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1981. This 4.25 x 7 softcover has 292 pages. At the height of the London blitz, a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire. Miraculously saved yet hideously scarred, tormented at school and at work, Matty becomes a wanderer, a seeker after some unknown redemption. Two more lost children await him: twins as… Read more about this item
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