NMLP P-045072 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Darkness Visible

William Golding · Faber & Faber (London) · 1979

UK Faber & Faber (London) 1979 is the true first edition; the Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York) 1979 printing is the first American edition. Both are collected, but the Faber issue takes precedence (designated A12a in the Gekoski & Grogan Golding bibliography, whose A-sequence records the British firsts).

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-045072 for "Darkness Visible" by William Golding (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045072, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).