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WILLIAM GOLDING. Pincher Martin. A novel. (SIGNED). Faber, London, 1956.
Price: US$387.48 + 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 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$581.22 + 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.
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.