Golding (William) Pincher Martin, second impression, jacket with light fading to spine, spine tips and corners with minor chipping, 1957; Free Fall, partially erased ink notes to front endpapers, jacket with light fading to spine, spine ends chipped, minor chipping to corners, 1959; The Scorpion God, ink gift inscription to endpaper covered with label, jacket spine slightly faded, minor chipping to spine ends and corners, 1971; Darkness Visible, light browning to text margins, jacket spine sunned, 1979; Rites of Passage, light browning to endpapers, 1980; A Moving Target, jacket price-clipped, 1982; The Paper Men, 1984; William Golding. The Man and his Books. A Tribute on his 75th Birthday, light browning to text margins, 1986; Close Quarters, 1987, first editions, first impressions unless where mentioned, signed presentation inscriptions from the author to Andrew Sinclair and/ or Sonia Melchett to endpapers, original boards, some slight shelf-lean, dust-jackets, excellent or near-fine copies, 8vo (9)

⁂ An excellent group of association copies, inscribed to the writer Andrew Sinclair (1935-2019) and his wife and fellow author Sonia Melchett (b. 1928). Golding and Melchett had a lengthy friendship, Sinclair would later state that knowing Golding had been his greatest inspiration and privilege. Association copies of Golding's works are rare.

"William Golding was the only writer I have ever pursued. An Angry Young novel I wrote in three weeks when up at Cambridge, The Breaking of Bumbo, outsold Lord of the Flies that year for Faber & Faber. This was ludicrous, but it was followed by Golding's kindness when I wrote to him. He sent me an open invitation to visit him by the watercress beds at Bowerchalke." - Andrew Sinclair.