INSCRIBED BY GOLDING TO MAVIS PINDARD, WITH A QUOTE FROM TENNYSON.

[GOLDING, William]; John CAREY [Ed.] ~ William Golding. The Man and his Books. A Tribute on his 75th Birthday. Inscribed by Golding.

FIRST UK PRINTING. Faber and Faber, London: 1986.

8vo., black publisher's boards, lettered and ruled in gilt to spine with publisher's device to foot; containing 8 black and white photographs on glossy paper, spaced sporadically throughout; together in the unclipped photographic dustwrapper (priced £12.50 net to front flap); THE BOOK a touch bumped at spine tips, with pages evenly toned, as is common, else near-fine; THE WRAPPER very near-fine, just a touch scuffed at edges. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. FIRST UK EDITION. This copy inscribed by William Golding in blue biro to the half title: "for / Mavis Pindard / with many thanks - / After many a Summer! / William Golding." The recipient worked at Faber in the Subsidiary Rights department, and the quote is taken directly from Tennyson's 'Tithonus': "Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many a summer dies the swan..." Scarce signed by the Nobel Laureate, and even more so inscribed thus.

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Near Fine
JACKET: Near Fine