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Golding, William. Pincher Martin. Faber and Faber, 1956.
Price: US$1.58 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Golding, William. Pincher Martin. Faber and Faber, 1956.
Price: US$1.58 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Golding, William. Pincher Martin. Faber and Faber, 1956.
Price: US$3.89 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Faber and Faber; 1956; 7.1 X 4.7 X 0.6 inches; Paperback; Fine; Paperback. Capricorn Books (1956), second impression. Initials inside cover. Like new square tight binding, flat clean pages. Promptly shipped in a box.; 208 Pages; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 208 pages
Seller: Cider Creek Books, Newark, NJ, U.S.A.
William Golding. Pincher Martin. Faber and Faber, London, 1956.
Price: US$5.09 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. Fading/scuffs to cover. Worn dustjacket with fading/scratches/scuffs/tears. Heavy foxing to textblock edges/endpapers. Light tanning/some marks to pages. Content good.
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
Golding, William. Pincher Martin. Faber and Faber, 1956.
Price: US$5.12 + shipping
Description: Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.
Seller: medimops, Berlin, Germany
Golding, William. Pincher Martin. Faber and Faber, 1956.
Price: US$6.61 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.42
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Golding, William. Pincher Martin. Faber, 1956.
Price: US$6.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Golding, William. Pincher Martin. Faber and Faber, 1956.
Price: US$7.06 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Mass Market Paperback in Good Condition, by the author of "The Lord of the Flies" , among others, and 1983 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. The book is generally clean, slight wear to cover edges, no spine creasing, solid and square. Pages quite clean and free from any markings, toned along edges. A story of survival and hunger set during World War II when Christopher Hadley Martin, a Royal Navy Lieutenant, is blown off his ship by a German torpedo and believes he is the only survivor of his military torpedo destroyer that sink in the Atlantic Ocean. 208 pages. 7.25 x 4.75 inches. 1956, Faber and Faber, London, England
Seller: The Parnassus BookShop, Newport, WA, U.S.A.
Golding William. Pincher martin. Faber and Faber, 1956.
Price: US$22.94 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: RO60144011: 1956. In-12. Broché. Etat passable, Coins frottés, Dos frotté, Papier jauni. 208 pages. Nombreuses notes à l'encre in texte. Quelques rousseurs. Texte en anglais. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France
Golding,William. Pincher Martin. Faber, 1956.
Price: US$38.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book rubbed at corners, moreso top front, with inscription top of front endpaper. Text clean, complete and firmly bound. Dust jacket rubbed and chipped with piece missing from spine base. Spine also sunned, now in protective jacket.
Seller: STEVE BROWN (BOOKS), Lichfield, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
GOLDING, WILLIAM. PINCHER MARTIN.. faber & faber, 1956, first edition ,,, 1956.
Price: US$43.00 + shipping
Description: very good - fine, a trace of darkening at the folds and spine, tiny spine bumping jacket only, NO BOOK
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, webster, NY, U.S.A.
Golding, William. Pincher Martin. Faber and Faber Ltd., London, 1956.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pale red cloth, spine panel lettered in gilt. 1st (British) ed. Modest binding lean, text block edges typically foxed and somewhat dulled by age. Foxed endpapers; front flyleaf shows a former owner signature and a sticker from the MCA company. 208 pp. Color illus. dust jacket shows slight loss at corners, shallow loss at head of spine and top binding corners, 1 1/2" separation along upper front joint and 1/2" separation along lower front joint, now in mylar. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Golding, William. PINCHER MARTIN. Faber and Faber Limited, 1956.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed. Slightest fraying at the top of the Spine. The boards are in good condition. Internally the pages are immaculately clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
William Golding. Pincher Martin. Faber and Faber, 1956.
Price: US$82.30 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: First Edition thus. Pincher Martin by William Golding. ISBN:9780571068098. Collectible item in excellent condition.
Seller: Collectors' Bookstore, Deurne, Belgium
William Golding. Pincher Martin. Faber and Faber, 1956.
Price: US$95.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Small booksellers label to front paste down. Slight lean to binding. Some light foxing to page edges and end papers. Light rubbing to corners of D/J. Slight chipping to head and tail of D/J spine. Small closed tear to head of D/J spine.
Seller: Fireside Bookshop, Stroud, GLOS, United Kingdom
GOLDING, William. Pincher Martin. Faber, 1956.
Price: US$95.40 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. His third novel. Top edge dusty, otherwise near Fine in dustwrapper, with very slight fraying to head of spine.
Seller: Kestrel Books and Gallery, Hereford, United Kingdom
GOLDING, William. PINCHER MARTIN. London: Faber and Faber., 1956.
Price: US$190.80 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Anthony Gross illustrated dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper which means bright and attractive. Not price-clipped (15s net to the front flap). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
GOLDING, William.. Pincher Martin.. London Faber and Faber, 1956.
Price: US$211.75 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression; 8vo; partially erased ownership inscription to the front free endpaper; original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, with the Anthony Gross dust jacket, spine very slightly rolled but a near-fine copy in a very good dust-jacket only minimally sunned at the spine. To my mind one of the author's crowning achievements, a brilliant novel, published in the USA as The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
William Golding. Pincher Martin. Faber and Faber, London, 1956.
Price: US$222.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: William Golding. 1956 1st Edition. Pincher Martin. Faber and Faber, London. Very good red cloth binding with gilt titles in a very good to near fine dustjacket by Anthony Gross encapsulated in a plastic wrapping of mylar style. Internally pp 208 very clean with no markings, text block very tight and clean. Good first edition of Golding's Third and some consider best novel.
Seller: UK Countryside Booksellers, Cromford, DERBY, United Kingdom
Golding, William. Pincher Martin. London; Faber;, 1956.
Price: US$254.40 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Fine (with a slight lean) in near fine but slightly chipped dustjacket. Despite this description, this is a very nice copy of the book.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
William Golding. Pincher Martin. Faber and Faber, London, 1956.
Price: US$273.48 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A smart first edition of this existentialist novel from British writer, William Golding. First edition. The third novel of British novelist, playwright, and poet, William Golding, who is best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature. Noted for the existential themes in a minimalistic setting, this novel follows the survival and psychophysical plight of a navy lieutenant who believes himself to be the sole survivor of a military torpedo destroyer which sinks in the North Atlantic Ocean. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also very smart with minor chipping to the extremities and sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
GOLDING, WILLIAM. Pincher Martin. Faber and Faber, London, 1956.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. Golding's third novel. Very faint foxing to page edges and upper portions of endpapers, else fine, in near fine price-clipped dustjacket with trace wear at spine ends.
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Golding, William. Pincher Martin. Faber and Faber, London, 1956.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 208 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Red buckram. About Fine, in Near fine dust jacket, head of spine panel internally reinforced with tape
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Golding, William. Pincher Martin - with the rare wrap-around band. Faber 1956, 1956.
Price: US$318.01 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A first edition, first printing published by Faber in 1956. The book has some browning and bumping to the corners of the book. There is also a rust mark made by a paperclip on a couple of leaves. There is a gift inscription to the ffep. The jacket has slight chipping on the spine and a small brown stain to the back flap. The yellow wrap-around band is intact and reads "Recommended by the Book Society". Author's third novel.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
WILLIAM GOLDING. Pincher Martin. A novel. (SIGNED). Faber, London, 1956.
Price: US$381.61 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition (first printing) - this copy signed by the author by way of a bookplate pasted to the front free endpaper. 8vo. 208pp. Original publisher's red cloth with very slightly defective gilt lettering and rule to the spine. A touch of dust soiling to the top edge, and just the ghost of an almost entirely erased former owner inscription. A very crisp copy in the Anthony Gross-designed double-spread pictorial dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but a little nicked at the spine ends with several tiny fractions of loss. Small dealer plate to the front pastedown, obscured by the wrapper flap. The author's third novel; an existential classic.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
William Golding. Pincher Martin. Faber & Faber, London, 1956.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: a very good copy in the original red cloth, rubbed a tad, gilt on spine still bright in a later issue of the original dust jacket. This is the 3rd novel of the Nobel winning author of the Lord of the Flies and perhaps one of his best. Title is inspired from a 1914 novel of the same name and quite rare
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
William Golding. Pincher Martin. Faber & Faber, London, 1956.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: a very good plus copy in the original gilt red cloth, in a very good pictorial dust jacket by a British Surrealist. His 3rd book after Lord of the Flies and the Inheritors. and perhaps his best. rare in dj. William Golding won the Nobel Prize for Literature. exciting reading of a surreal fantasy at sea.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
William Golding SIGNED. Pincher Martin. Faber, UK, 1956.
Price: US$572.41 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition 1956. Signed by William Golding to the title page. Ownership signature of Raleigh Trevelyan who was a British author, editor, and publisher and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good+ and bright. Minuscule loss to spine tips. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked. A good example and rare signed. More images can be taken upon request. RefA1234
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
Golding, William. Pincher Martin. Faber and Faber, London, 1956.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the words "First Published in mcmlvi" printed on the copyright page. A beautiful copy SIGNED by William Golding on page before the title page. This First Issue dustjacket has the publisher's 15 s net printed price present on the front flap with minor wear the edges. The book is bound in the publisher's cloth and is in great shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy SIGNED by the author.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
William Golding. Pincher Martin. Faber & Faber, 1956.
Price: US$763.21 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First UK edition. First printing. Both Book and Jacket are in quite remarkable condition. The Anthony Gross DJ is not price clipped (Original Price:15s). There are no inscriptions, creasing or tears. Book is bound in original red cloth and bears a scarce Book Society wraparound band.
Seller: Affordable Firsts, Marlow -on-Thames, United Kingdom
Golding, William. Pincher Martin. London; Faber & Faber; 1956;, 1956.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st ed; VG in a VG DJ with some sunning to spine and light edge wear, a nice, bright copy, SIGNED by the author on the half title page.
Seller: Walt Barrie Rare Books, gleneden beach, OR, U.S.A.
William Golding. Pincher Martin. Faber & Faber, London, 1956.
Price: US$825.54 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: pp. 208. Hand written inscription " For John Arlott from William Golding". Original dustwrapper in excellent condition. Golding won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983, and John Arlott was the noted English journalist and cricket commentator.
Seller: Anah Dunsheath RareBooks ABA ANZAAB ILAB, Auckland, NZ, New Zealand