Spire by Golding: Signed (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED by the author on the Title Page. A Very Scarce Signed copy of Golding's fifth novel. Softcover. A very good book which shows some wear to the covers (see photos) and also has three previous owner's name on the front endpaper with a previous price in red ink. (Sadly) Some underlining in both pencil and pen in a few places. Despite the issues, a scarce Signed Copy. Robust shipping. Signed by Author(s).…

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First. 8vo, black cloth, d.w. N.Y.: Harcourt Brace, (1964). First American Edition. Signed by Golding on the title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. Published by Faber and Faber, London, 1964. First British edition, first printing. Octavo. Signed by the author on the title page. 223 pages. Original maroon wove cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Multi coloured dust jacket the red and white lettering to cover and black lettering to spine. Book in near fine condition with owner's last name and date (1964) in red ink on front free endpaper, signed in ink on the title page. Slightest canting to spine. Dustjacket near fine. See photographs. Book 3612 location 1-3. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. Not price clipped and without inscriptions, First Printing in protected wrapper. SIGNED bookplate without dedication loose in book. Signed by Author(s).

1st Edition. Hb in Dw 223pp SIGNED BOOKPLATE inserted to title page To Tony Chance from William Golding. Minor spotting to fore edges o/w A FINE/FINE Copy priced at 18s net.

dj. First printing. Inscribed first edition of Golding's historical novel about a great man whose spine hurts, based on the 13th century building of Salisbury Cathedral - selected by Anthony Burgess as one of the 99 best modern novels. 7.25'' x 4.75''. Original plum cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped (18s net) pictorial dust jacket. 223, [1] pages. Inscribed by Golding "with best wishes" on front free endpaper. Light bumping to boards, spine lean. Edgewear and moderate soil to jacket and top edge of text block, toning to jacket spine. Very good in very good minus jacket. Signed. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed in Greek by Golding, "Sto Piraeus ". Piraeus is the port town on the outskirts of Athens where The author visited many times on his numerous excursions to Greece. A very good copy in a worn and dirtied jacket. Owners name and date 1964 above the short inscription which is dated 12/5/65. Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing with the words "First Published in mcmlxiv" 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. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Editions, First Printings of ALL Five books. Each book is SIGNED by William Golding. All the books have the ORIGINAL dustjackets with the publisher's printed price present on the front flaps with minor wear to the spine and edges. The books are bound in the publisher's cloth and are in great shape. The bindings are tight with NO cocking or leaning with light wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the books. A lovely set of The Inheritors, Pincher Martin, Free Fall, The Spire and The Pyramid SIGNED by the author. Signed by Author(s).…

First British edition. Octavo, original cloth.Signed by William Golding on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with just a touch of rubbing. A very bright copy. "A most remarkable book, as unforeseeable as one foresaw, an entire original. remote from the mainstream, potent, severe, even forbidding" (Frank Kermode, New York Review of Books).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Slighest of wear and soiling dust jacket with price intact; page edges foxed; o/w NF/NF; signed by William Golding on a book plate that is attached to the front free end paper. Signed by Author(s).

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Paul & Viv with love from Ann & Bill Golding". Pauline and Viv Lewis were friends of the Goldings, Pauline being a friend of Ann Golding and Viv acting as engineer aboard the Wild Rose on their cross-channel trip to Holland. John Carey, William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies, 2009. Octavo. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Spine cocked, edges and endpapers lightly foxed, contents clean; jacket unclipped, a little worn at edges: a very good copy in like jacket.…