signed first edition Hardcover
1972 · NY
by Golding, William
First US edition, first prnt. Review Copy with the publisher's slip laid-in. Signed by Golding on the half-title page. One board corner lightly tapped; dustjacket with tiny crease at spine bottom edge; otherwise a bright, tight copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Golding's only collection. Three novellas set in the ancient past. "The Scorpion God" in Ancient Egypt, "Clonk Clonk" in pre-historic Africa, and "Envoy Extraordinary" in Ancient Rome. The later was previously published in 1956. "The Scorpion God" had been begun in 1964 but abandoned.
(Inventory #: 80810)
