Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$7.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 178 pp. Third printing. Remainder mark on the lower page edges. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean. The jacket is very lightly rubbed along the upper and lower edges.
Seller: Persephone's Books, Gastonia, NC, U.S.A.
Golding, William. The Scorpion God: Three Short Novels. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1972.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Neither remainder nor ex-lib. Hardcover in reddish-brown blindstamped cloth with silver titles to spine, in white illustrated jacket, small 8vo. 1st U.S. edition/printing (stated, with letter line). 178pp. NF/VG to VG+. Book has prev. owner's name/info stamp mid ffep. Jacket has light rubbing to white background of overall clean and bright central panels; faint toning along front inner hinge ridge. Jacket in Brodart.
Seller: Bookfeathers, LLC, Lewisburg, PA, U.S.A.
GOLDING, WILLIAM. The Scorpion God. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1972.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American Edition. Three short novels, The Scorpion God, Clonk and Envoy Extraordinary. Fine in dustjacket with reddish-brown color of author name on spine faded to olive green, else fine.
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$36.50 + shipping
Description: Hardcover first edition - First American edition. Very near fine in a dj with some toning to the upper edge.
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Golding, William. The Scorpion God. Harcourt Brace and Company, New York, 1972.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The first American edition, published by Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich in 1972. Comprised of three short novels The Scorpion God, Clonk, Clonk and Envoy Extraordinary. A fine copy of the book in a near fine dust jacket with a couple of short edge tears.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Golding, William. The Scorpion God. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1972.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing of the stated first American edition. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with a tiny closed tear to upper fold and light creasing to crown of spine. A lovely copy.
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Golding, William. The Scorpion God: Three Short Novels. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovitch, 1972.
Price: US$73.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: (1st US) DJ has very tiny tear at bottom front tip, micronick at spine top edge. Near Very Fine DJ/Very Fine book.
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
Golding, William. The Scorpion God: Three Short Novels. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich,, 1972.
Price: US$98.46 + shipping
Condition: New
Description:
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Golding, William. THE SCORPION GOD. THREE SHORT NOVELS. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, NY, 1972.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First US edition, first prnt. Review Copy with the publisher's slip laid-in. Signed by Golding on the half-title page. One board corner lightly tapped; dustjacket with tiny crease at spine bottom edge; otherwise a bright, tight copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Golding's only collection. Three novellas set in the ancient past. "The Scorpion God" in Ancient Egypt, "Clonk Clonk" in pre-historic Africa, and "Envoy Extraordinary" in Ancient Rome. The later was previously published in 1956. "The Scorpion God" had been begun in 1964 but abandoned.
Seller: REVERE BOOKS, abaa/ilab & ioba, Fernandina Beach, FL, U.S.A.