First edition, First printing; Clean, tight, unmarked; the slightest of wear to spine extremes; very light curl at edges of dust jacket; bright yellow cloth covers with black spine and gold titles; no fading to blue dust jacket with photo of Golding - title in orange, author in yellow; $10.95 price on front flap of dust jacket; not price clipped; Rites of Passage is the first book in Golding's 'A Sea Trilogy'. Sailing to Australia in the early years of the 19th century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient warship, where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the crammed spaces below decks.Winner of the 1980 Booker Prize Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Hardcover Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1st Edition 1st Printing 1980 New York, NY
