The book we are looking for may have been affiliated with Paulist Press. My brothers and I remember reading it back in maybe the mid to late seventies. It was a hippie/peace kind of book. Probably a book of stories. The pictures below show a distinctive sun image that we have tried to find through Google reverse image searches. The images are likely Photoshopped for copyright reasons. These photos are from Jim Erickson’s photography site. We have reached out to him as part of our quest, but have not heard back.
If you purchase the photographer’s high-res image, perhaps the text on the back or ISBN# will be readable.
I had a look at the back cover. Only so much is intelligible, but the three lower paragraphs seem to be single reviews of three related books (maybe from the same publishing company). Not sure if this is going to be helpful, but I’d say the book is almost certainly British, since it looks like these reviews come from ‘The Times’, ‘Daily Mail’, and ‘Sunday Times’.
I also went on Google Advanced Book Search and tried a few combinations of words that might be in the title of the first of those three books with reviews excerpted (‘Rites of Passage’? ‘Rites of Marriage’? ‘Women of the’?), but didn’t find anything that matched, unfortunately.
The book looks like it’s William Golding’s trilogy ‘To the Ends of the Earth’ published by faber and faber