The London Adventure or the Art of Wandering Agatha Christie complex and suggestive

complex and suggestive

Golding's debut novel telling the harrowing tale of a group of British schoolboys stranded on a deserted island

First American edition thus

Publisher's original red cloth

but slightly discoloured spine

The London Adventure or the Art of Wandering Agatha Christie complex and suggestiveMACHEN, Arthur. The London Adventure or the Art of Wandering. London: Martin Secker, 1924. First edition, first impression of the author's third autobiographical volume. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge coloured; no dustwrapper. Inscribed, dedicated, signed and dated to FFEP by the author to Lady Constance Benson. Unique association copy. A fair copy, binding with a lean but overall firm with only a few breaks to the gutter