The Lord of the Flies

New York: Coward-McCann, 1962.

Second American printing, with an introduction by E.M. Forster. Publisher's off white cloth with red and black embossed design of a roughly-hewn spear to upper board and title in red lettering to the spine. With the excellent and unclipped dust-jacket designed by George Salter. Spine and outer margins of front cover of jacket tanned. Still a very bright and clean copy, without old inscriptions etc. Author's startling first novel about the elemental savagery of human nature.