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GOLDING (WILLIAM) The Inheritors, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "To John Milne with best wishes from Bill Golding, 5/10/55" on the front free endpaper, Faber and Faber (3) image 1
GOLDING (WILLIAM) The Inheritors, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "To John Milne with best wishes from Bill Golding, 5/10/55" on the front free endpaper, Faber and Faber (3) image 2
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GOLDING (WILLIAM)
The Inheritors, 1955; Pincher Martin, 1956, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPIES; and another

10 – 20 March 2025, 12:00 GMT
Online, London, Knightsbridge

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GOLDING (WILLIAM)

The Inheritors, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "To John Milne with best wishes from Bill Golding, 5/10/55" on the front free endpaper, dust-jacket with some losses to upper cover and spine, upper joint split, [1955]; Pincher Martin, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "To Mary and John [Milne] from Ann & Bill Golding, in hope of better days at sea than those described herein" on the front free endpaper, dust-jacket slightly frayed at head, [1956]; The Spire, dust-jacket designed by John Piper, a few smudges, [1964], FIRST EDITIONS, publisher's cloth, 8vo, Faber and Faber (3)

Footnotes

Presentation copies of the second and third of Golding's novels, inscribed for John Milne. Milne had been at Oxford with Golding, and later taught alongside him at Bishop Wordsworth, signed up for the Navy at the same time in December 1940, and was godfather to Golding's daughter Judy, who wrote "Their friendship was a constant for nearly forty years" (Judy Golding, The Children of Lovers: A Memoir of William Golding, 2011). She also recalled that in the 1950s the two men often went sailing together with their families, outings referenced in Golding's inscription in Pincher Martin.

Provenance: John Milne, and by descent to the present owner.

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