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

Golding, William ; Carey, John [Ed.] ~ William Golding : The Man and his Books – A Tribute on his 75th Birthday : Inscribed By William Golding

Faber and Faber, London : 1986

The First UK printing published by Faber and Faber, London in 1986. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. 8vo., black publisher's boards, lettered and ruled in gilt to spine with publisher's device to foot; Illustrated with 8 B/W photographs on glossy paper together in the unclipped photographic wrapper (priced £12.50 net to front flap). The book is lightly bumped at the spine tips, with pages evenly toned, as is commonly encountered due to the quality of the paper stock used. The WRAPPER is in near Fine condition with just a hint of edge-wear. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. This copy has been 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...". A wonderful collection of anecdotes and stories which celebrates the writer's seventy-fifth birthday, and which includes personal recollections of Golding as a schoolmaster, a son, a traveller and a writer, from family, friends and critics. There are also contributions from fellow writers such as Seamus Heaney, (who offers a new poem, 'Parable Island'); Ted Hughes (on the subject of baboons and Neanderthals); John Fowles and Ian McEwan, who each "register their literary debts to Britain's latest Nobel literary laureate" (wrapper blurb). The final chapter is an interview with Golding conducted by John Carey, in which he looks back on his own life and work and reveals "a novel simmering. But it's only simmering. It'll be a hell of a time before it comes to the boil". Scarce signed by the Nobel Laureate, and even more so inscribed thus. Collectible

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Near Fine
JACKET: Near Fine