Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$193.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: UK hardback first impression as a collected edition. SIGNED by Golding at half-title with name only. This is not the limited edition but the trade edition. Near fine in VG jacket, unclipped with light wear. HEAVIER THAN AVERAGE - THERE MAY BE SOME EXTRA POSTAGE OUTSIDE THE UK - THANKS.
Seller: Hunter Books, Burnham, BUCKS, United Kingdom
GOLDING, William. To the Ends of the Earth: a sea trilogy. Faber, 1991.
Price: US$225.16 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Collects 'Rites of Passage', 'Close Quarters' and 'Fire Down Below'. No.138 of 400 specially bound numbered copies signed by the author. Top edge gilt. Fine in glassine dustwrapper.
Seller: Kestrel Books and Gallery, Hereford, United Kingdom
Price: US$231.60 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: No 128 of 400 copies, limited edition page numbered and signed "William Golding" , near fine condition , quarter bound marbled boards with blue cloth, gilt rules to boards, gilt titles on label to spine, upper edge gilt, cellophane cover
Seller: The Bookshop on the Heath Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$250.90 + shipping
Description: Hb original blue cloth spine, marbled boards xii,753pp Limited Edition 321/400 SIGNED by The Author. A FINE Copy contained in its original cardboard slipcase.
Seller: E.J Morten Booksellers BA, MANCHESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$257.27 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: British Limited edition (number 67 of 400 copies), first printing (full print run includes '1'). Signed by the author to limitation page. With original clear plastic jacket and original slipcase (box). Contains three full novels : Rites of Passage, Close Quarters and Fire Down Below. Brown card slipcase is very good with the odd small mark, the odd minor scratch and a few bumps to edges. Clear plastic jacket is near fine with the odd small mark and the odd small scratch. Boards are fine no faults. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Top of pages gilt. Very occasional small mark to pages. No other faults. A nice copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
Golding, William. To the Ends of the Earth. Faber, UK, 1991.
Price: US$257.33 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Original marbled boards, top edge gilt, cream endpapers. With the acetate jacket and cardboard slipcase as issued. One of 400 deluxe copies SIGNED by Golding on the limitation page. A fine copy - tight, fresh, no inscriptions, clean text block. A handsome copy. SIGNED to the limitation page by William Golding. Please note that this is a heavy book and postage may be a little more than that quoted by ABE.
Seller: Cheltenham Rare Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Golding, William. To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy. Faber & Faber, London, UK, 1991.
Price: US$270.20 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Number 335 / 400 of this signed limited edition. Beautifully presented book in marbled boards. Spine titling is gilt out of a maroon panel. Binding is as new with gilt top edge. Lacks slip case but has it's clear acetate cover. Please contact seller for postage costs and arrangements.
Seller: James Hulme Books, Stourbridge, United Kingdom
Golding, William. TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. Faber and Faber, London, 1991.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: Beautiful signed limited first edition of Golding's complete sea trilogy, set on board a British ship transporting migrants to Australia; the first volume, RITES OF PASSAGE, won the Booker Prize for 1980. 9'' x 6''. Original marbled boards with gilt-lettered blue cloth spine. Top edge gilt, cream endpapers. In original cardboard slipcase. 753, [1] pages. Edition of 400 specially bound copies signed by the author. This copy no. 118, signed by Golding at colophon. Minimal edgewear to slipcase.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Golding, William. To the Ends of the Earth. Faber, 1991.
Price: US$289.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A sea trilogy. Marbled boards, buckram spine. Fine in original cardboard slipcase. One of 400 copies signed by the author.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
Golding, William (SIGNED). To the Ends of the Earth. Faber & Faber, Limited, London, UK, 1991.
Price: US$301.46 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A sea trilogy comprising Rites of Passage, Close Quarters and Fire Down Below. 753 pp. Dark navy blue cloth covered boards have gilt text and title box on spine. Tail of spine is slightly rubbed, ow, book is as new. Foreword by author dated June 1991. Unclipped DJ has very slight edge wear. Book is from the collection of the Toronto author/poet and often Harbourfront literary event host, Greg Gatenby. His signature and the book's date of acquisition by him is found top ffep. Book is flatsigned by Golding above the publisher on the title page. SIGNED by AUTHOR. A must-have for Golding collectors. Bookseller's Inventory # 122941.
Seller: Lower Beverley Better Books, Lyndhurst, ON, Canada
Golding, William. To the Ends of the Earth (A Sea Trilogy). Faber and Faber, London, 1991.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED/LIMITED EDITION OF 400 hardcover copies. This is number 167 SIGNED by William Golding on the limitation page. A gorgeous copy. The book is bound in the publisher's cloth and appears UNREAD. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy housed in the publisher's slipcase.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
HOCKNEY, David; SPENDER, Stephen, et al. Hockney's Alphabet. (Faber and Faber), (London), 1991.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Twenty-six writers contribute to this AIDS fundraiser, with drawings by David Hockney. Edited by Stephen Spender. Signed by Hockney and Spender. This copy is from the collection of Steven Abbott, Gore Vidal's bibliographer, and is also specially signed by Gore Vidal, the only copy of this issue of the book that he signed. Other contributors include Joyce Carol Oates, Iris Murdoch, Paul Theroux, Normal Mailer, Seamus Heaney, Martin Amis, Erica Jong, Ian McEwan, Nigel Nicholson, Margaret Drabble, Craig Raine, William Boyd, V. S. Pritchett, Doris Lessing, William Golding, T. S. Eliot, Arthur Miller, Ted Hughes, Kazuo Ishiguro, Julian Barnes, John Updike, Susan Sontag, Douglas Adams, and Patrick Leigh Fermor. Fine in a fine slipcase. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.
Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (Lopezbooks), Hadley, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Yellow Cloth, Lettered In Gilt On Black, In Slipcase. The De Luxe Edition Signed By Hockney And Spender (Only), Printed On Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge. Fine In Fine Slipcase. With A Special "Compliments" Card From Peter Scott At Benjamin Rota.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$4824.93 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, limited edition signed by the artist and the editor and specially bound in yellow buckram. This work was a collaborative effort created to raise money for the AIDS Crisis Trust. Spender invited several British and American writers to contribute with texts that could accompany Hockney's specially drawn alphabet. The written contributions are by Douglas Adams, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, William Boyd, Margaret Drabble, Patrick Leigh Fermor, William Golding, Seamus Heaney, David Hockney, Kazuo Ishiguro, Erica Jong, Doris Lessing, Norman Mailer, Ian McEwan, Arthur Miller, Iris Murdoch, Nigel Nicolson, John Julius Norwich, Joyce Carol Oates, V. S. Pritchett, Craig Raine, Susan Sontag, Stephen Spender, John Updike, Anthony Burgess, Ted Hughes, Paul Theroux, Gore Vidal, and T. S. Eliot. Norman Mailer declined his invitation, but his "letter refusing seemed such a good model for Polite Rejection" that it was nonetheless published as his contribution (Preface). Folio. Original yellow buckram, spine lettered in gilt on a dark blue ground, printed on Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper, cream endpapers. Housed in the original grey cloth slipcase. With 26 full-page colour drawings, one for each letter of the alphabet, by Hockney. Slipcase lightly rubbed and marked, book fine.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Hockney David. Hockney's Alphabet; Signed Limited Edition. Faber 1991, 1991.
Price: US$4824.93 + shipping
Description: New condition, Unopened in publishers yellow buckram binding in slipcase. The Deluxe first edition of this title which is signed by both David Hockney and Stephen Spender. Illustrated with twenty seven full Page Colour plates by Hockney and printed on fine art paper. This work was a collaborative effort created to raise money for the AIDS Crisis Trust. Stephen Spender invited several British and American writers to contribute with texts that could accompany Hockney's specially drawn alphabet. The written contributions are by Douglas Adams, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, William Boyd, Margaret Drabble, Patrick Leigh Fermor, William Golding, Seamus Heaney, David Hockney, Kazuo Ishiguro, Erica Jong, Doris Lessing, Norman Mailer, Ian McEwan, Arthur Miller, Iris Murdoch, Nigel Nicolson, John Julius Norwich, Joyce Carol Oates, V. S. Pritchett, Craig Raine, Susan Sontag, Stephen Spender, John Updike, Anthony Burgess, Ted Hughes, Paul Theroux, Gore Vidal, and T. S. Eliot. Norman Mailer declined his invitation, but his "letter refusing seemed such a good model for Polite Rejection" that it was nonetheless published as his contribution ISBN 0571165443
Seller: Peter J. Hadley Bookseller ABA ILAB, Ludlow, United Kingdom
HOCKNEY, David; SPENDER, Stephen, et al. Hockney's Alphabet. (Faber and Faber), (London), 1991.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Copy No. 64 of 250 numbered copies, signed by the contributors. Twenty-six writers contribute to this AIDS fundraiser, with drawings by David Hockney. Edited by Stephen Spender. Signed by Hockney and Spender. This copy is also signed by: Joyce Carol Oates, Iris Murdoch, Normal Mailer, Seamus Heaney, Martin Amis, Erica Jong, Ian McEwan, Nigel Nicholson, Margaret Drabble, Craig Raine, William Boyd, V.S. Pritchett, Doris Lessing, William Golding, Arthur Miller, Ted Hughes, Kazuo Ishiguro, Julian Barnes, John Updike, Susan Sontag, Douglas Adams, and Patrick Leigh Fermor. Four living contributors declined to sign this edition -- Paul Theroux, Ted Hughes, Anthony Burgess and Gore Vidal. This copy, however, is from the collection of Vidal's bibliographer, Steven Abbott, and Vidal did sign this copy, the only copy of this edition he signed. Blue boards bound in quarter vellum. Fine in a fine slipcase. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.
Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (Lopezbooks), Hadley, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$11258.17 + shipping
Description: First edition, deluxe signed limited issue, number X of XXIV copies aside from the edition of 250, bound in quarter vellum and signed by Spender, Hockney, and 22 of the 27 contributors: Doris Lessing, William Boyd, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, William Golding, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Nigel Nicolson, Seamus Heaney, Douglas Adams, Julian Barnes, Craig Raine, Kazuo Ishiguro, Iris Murdoch, V. S. Pritchett, Erica Jong, Arthur Miller, John Julius Norwich, Susan Sontag, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Norman Mailer, and Ian McEwan. The contributors who did not sign were Anthony Burgess, Ted Hughes, Paul Theroux, Gore Vidal, and T. S. Eliot. Together with a compliment slip signed by John Bodley, director of Faber and Faber. This work was a collaborative effort created to raise money for the AIDS Crisis Trust. Spender invited several British and American writers to contribute with texts that could accompany Hockney's specially drawn alphabet. Norman Mailer declined his invitation, but his "letter refusing seemed such a good model for Polite Rejection" that it was nonetheless published as his contribution (Preface). Folio. Original quarter vellum with blue boards, lettering to spine gilt, top edge gilt, printed on Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper. Housed in the publisher's blue slipcase. With 26 colour drawings, one for each letter of the alphabet, by Hockney. Fine in fine slipcase.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom