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Golding, William. The Brass Butterfly a play in three acts. Faber and Faber, 1958.
Price: US$6.79 + shipping
Condition: Good
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Seller: The Paper Hound Bookshop, Vancouver, BC, Canada
William Golding. The Brass Butterfly - A Play In Three Acts. Faber and Faber, 1958.
Price: US$9.67 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Faber and Faber 1958, first edition. Hardcover with tight binding. Condition: Very Good. Clean and bright text. Ex libris. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING
Seller: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, United Kingdom
Golding, William. The Brass Butterfly a play in three acts. Faber and Faber, 1958.
Price: US$11.31 + shipping
Condition: Good
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Seller: The Paper Hound Bookshop, Vancouver, BC, Canada
William Golding. The Brass Butterfly. Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$16.11 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cloth cover a little worn. Contents clean and bright but stamp of English Library in Frankurt on reverse of title page. Size: 5" x 8"
Seller: Bosco Books, Looe, CORNW, United Kingdom
Golding, William. The Brass Butterfly a Play in Three Acts. Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$19.32 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 80pp; d/j worn and faded at spine, library marks to fep. and rear endpage, black title to spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Baggins Book Bazaar Ltd, Rochester, KENT, United Kingdom
Golding, William. The Brass Butterfly. Faber and Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$37.57 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, pp. 80, unclipped dust jacket with faded spine and uneven toning to back, front cover bright, interior with some small foxing to end papers, a couple of pages and the fore edge, otherwise clean and bright, binding tight.
Seller: Charles Vivian Art & Antiques, Rosscarbery, CORK, Ireland
Golding, William. The Brass Butterfly; A Play in Three Acts. Faber and Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 28 cm. Sound and square binding in salmon, cloth-covered boards. Minor wear to edges and corner tips. Top edge of the text block is a bit dusty. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. Otherwise, inside pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has some edge wear, heaviest to the corners, and including a short tear to the front edge of the spine. The spine is faded. Rear panel somewhat tanned along edges and both panels have some light soil. Not price clipped. A three act comedy by British writer, William Golding.
Seller: Homeward Bound Books, Campbellcroft, ON, Canada
Golding, William. The Brass Butterfly. Faber and Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No signatures. A clean copy. There is a single 1/4" tear and a single <1/4" chip in the edges of the dust wrapper. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. Dust wrapper in archival mylar cover. ; 80 pages. Orange cloth boards with blue lettering on spine. ; 8vo
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Golding (William). The Brass Butterfly. A Play in Three Acts.. Faber and Faber, 1958.
Price: US$45.09 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, pp.80, crown 8vo, original orange cloth, backstrip lettered in dark blue, a few faint spots to egdes and gutters of endpapers, dustjacket designed by Anthony Gross, the backstrip slightly faded, a couple of nicks, small patch of waterstaining to rear panel, very good. (Gekoski & Grogan A5a)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Golding, William. The Brass Butterfly. Faber & Faber Ltd, London, 1958.
Price: US$54.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A superb copy in a Mylar cover.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo, original orange cloth, black titles to spine. 80 pp. Neat ink name on front paste-down (under the jacket flap), a very good clean tight copy in dust jacket, price clipped, one short closed tear.
Seller: Thompson Rare Books - ABAC / ILAB, Hornby Island, BC, Canada
GOLDING WILLIAM. THE BRASS BUTTERFLY. FABER AND FABER 1958, 1958.
Price: US$57.10 + shipping
Description: HB ORANGE CLOTH VERY GOOD PP80 DW VERY GOOD 12M0 A play based on the authorÕs novella Envoy Extraordinary
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
Golding, William. The Brass Butterfly. Faber & Faber, 1958.
Price: US$64.41 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First UK Edition. First Printing. Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper. Not price-clipped, no inscriptions.
Seller: Paul Wightman, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Golding, William. The Brass Butterfly. Faber & Faber, 1958.
Price: US$77.30 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1958 Faber Hardcover 1st Edition 1st Impression. Very good+ clean tight binding in very good+ unclipped dustjacket. Wonderful 50's jacket design as shown. Former owners bookplate inside as shown
Seller: MacKellar Art & Books, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Golding, William. The Brass Butterfly. Faber and Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Slender hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. 80 pp. A play by the author of Lord of the Flies and other works. A handsome near fine copy in cloth covers in a clipped dustwrapper with ever so faint toning to spine. An excellent copy.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Golding, William. The Brass Butterfly. London; Faber;, 1958.
Price: US$83.74 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Near fine in very good, but chipped dustjacket.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
Golding, William. THE BRASS BUTTERFLY: A PLAY IN THREE ACTS. Faber and Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First British edition. Adapted from the short novel "Envoy Extraordinary." There are numerous textual differences between the British and earlier U.S. edition of the play. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-451. Gekoski and Grogan A5a. 1971 gift inscription in ink on front free endpaper, else a fine copy in near fine dust jacket with touch of wear at head and tail of spine panel and coner tips, a bit of light dust soiling to rear panel, and clipped price. (#80098)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
WILLIAM GOLDING. THE BRASS BUTTERFLY: A PLAY IN THREE ACTS. FABER January 1958, 1958.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No jacket. First edition. White lettering on front cover and spine. One letter rubbed on spine. Several lines in introduction underlined in red ink.
Seller: A Cappella Books, Inc., Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
GOLDING, William. The Brass Butterfly. Faber and Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Large 12mo. In dustjacket. Orange cloth binding with blue, stamped lettering to spine. One of 2,000 copies printed. A novel. Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Golding, William.. The Brass Butterfly: A Play in Three Acts.. London, Faber and Faber., 1958.
Price: US$104.96 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 13 cm x 21 cm. 80 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. "William Golding was born in Cornwall in 1911 and was educated at Marlborough Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford. Before he became a schoolmaster he was an actor, a lecturer, a small-boat sailor and a musician. A now rare volume, Poems, appeared in 1934. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy and saw action against battleships, and also took part in the pursuit of the Bismarck. He finished the war as a Lieutenant in command of a rocket ship, which was off the French coast for the D-Day invasion, and later at the island of Walcheren. After the war he returned to Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury and was there when his first novel, Lord of the Flies, was published in 1954. He gave up teaching in 1961. Lord of the Flies was filmed by Peter Brook in 1963. Golding listed his hobbies as music, chess, sailing, archaeology and classical Greek (which he taught himself). Many of these subjects appear in his essay collections The Hot Gates and A Moving Target. He won the Booker Prize for his novel Rites of Passage in 1980, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. He was knighted in 1988. He died at his home in the summer of 1993. The Double Tongue, a novel left in draft at his death, was published in June 1995." (Amazon) Sprache: english.
Seller: Inanna Rare Books Ltd., Skibbereen, CORK, Ireland
GOLDING, WILLIAM. The Brass Butterfly. A Play in Three Acts.. Faber and Faber, 1958.
Price: US$109.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
GOLDING, WILLIAM. The Brass Butterfly. Faber & Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$113.11 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Orange cloth with deep blue lettering to the spine. Book is near fine with a touch of dustsoil to the upper edges. Dustjacket has some wear at the outer corners and at the head and heel of the spine panel, which is somewhat faded. A nice copy of Golding's only play.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
GOLDING, William.. The Brass Butterfly - A Play in Three Acts.. Faber and Faber, London., 1958.
Price: US$122.38 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 80 pages. A comedy, based on the author's novella Envoy Extraordinary (1956).Fine in very good indeed, slightly nicked dustwrapper, by Anthony Gross, a bit faded at the spine.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo. Orange cloth. Pictorial dust jacket. 80 pp. Price-clipped. Touch of wear to top jacket edge. Jacket spine lightly sunned. Book is fine. This is a first printing of Golding's only play, a limited printing of 2000 copies. By the author of Lord of the Flies.
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Golding, William.. THE BRASS BUTTERFLY.. FABER., LONDON, 1958.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First British edition. About fine in close to fine dust jacket. (Strip of clear tape joined bottom corner of front jacket flap which was clipped with printed price intact. Slight off-setting from tape to adjoining end-paper. ) ; 80 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Golding, William. The Brass Butterfly. London Faber and Faber Limited 1958, 1958.
Price: US$126.25 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, first impression. Publisher's reddish orange cloth with dark blue lettering to spine. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Octavo. pp. 80. Only 2,000 copies were bound. A book in Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dust-jacket which is not price-clipped. Gekoski and Grogan A5a
Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom
WilLIAM GOLDING. THE BRASS BUTTERFLY. A PLAY IN THREE ACTS. FABER AND FABER, 1958.
Price: US$128.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: THIS IS A VERY NICE COPY. THE JACKET IS COMPLETE AND NOT PRICE CLIPPED AND SHOWS NO LOSS BUT HAS LIGHT SPOTTING TO THE REAR TOP . THE BOOK IS VERY CLEAN THROUGHOUT AND FREE FROM ANY INSCRIPTIONS. A VERY NICE COPY INDEED Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Sydney Charles Books, SURREY, United Kingdom
William Golding. The brass butterfly: A play in three acts. Faber and Faber, 1958.
Price: US$159.20 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Edition 1958. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Former library book. Edition 1958. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.
Seller: Ammareal, Morangis, France
GOLDING, William. The Brass Butterfly. Faber and Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket with slight toning at the spine, and a little rubbed spot on the front flap fold. A very nice copy of the author's only play, one of 2000 copies.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Golding, William. THE BRASS BUTTERFLY. Faber & Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$184.75 + shipping
Description: A Play in Three Acts. Pp. 80; orange cloth, spine lettered and decorated in navy, edges of boards a trifle rubbed, bottom fore-corner of lower board faintly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and foxed, edges a trifle rubbed and split, the backstrip lightly faded; a little light foxing; Faber & Faber, London, 1958. First edition. Gekoski & Grogan A5(a). *Golding's only play.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Golding, William. The Brass Butterfly. Faber & Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 80 pages. First English edition, first printing. Adapted from the short novel "Envoy Extraordinary". Many textual differences between this edition and the earlier U.S. edition. Dust jacket design by Anthony Gross. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
William Golding. The Brass Butterfly. Faber and Faber, 1958.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: play by Golding, ,a bit tanned.scarce Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada
Golding, William. THE BRASS BUTTERFLY: A PLAY IN THREE ACTS. Faber and Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First British edition. Adapted from the short novel "Envoy Extraordinary." There are numerous textual differences between the British and earlier U.S. edition of the play. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-451. Gekoski and Grogan A5a. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#2335)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Golding, William.. The Brass Butterfly. A Play in Three Acts.. Faber & Faber Ltd, London, 1958.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Impression. A Fine, clean copy in a Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 80pp. Spotless, unread. Nobel Prize winner. Q17829
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A Fine first Printing of the First Edition in a mildly aged Very Good+ dust-jacket that is clipped and has little edgewear. The volume is a lovely copy of William Golding's fifth book; The Brass Butterfly tells the story of a Greek inventor that brings his wares to the court of the Roman Emperor resulting in a number of catastrophes; 8vo ; 80 pages
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
GOLDING, William.. The Brass Butterfly.. Faber and Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 80 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
GOLDING, William. The Brass Butterfly. Faber and Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$260.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy of the author's only play, one of 2000 copies.
Seller: Biblioctopus, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Golding, William. The Brass Butterfly. A Play in Three Acts. Faber and Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 80 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Orange cloth. Fine, in Fine dust jacket
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Golding, William. The Brass Butterfly. Faber and Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the words "First Published in mcmlviii" printed on the copyright page. A beautiful copy SIGNED by William Golding on the front free endpaper. This First Issue dustjacket has the publisher's 18 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.