F I N E B O O K S & M A N U S C R I P T S
GOLDING’S SCARCEST WORK
75. The Ladder And The Tree GOLDING, William
Privately Printed; Marlborough College Press, 1961. First and sole edition. Single quire. Original Cambridge blue stapled wrappers with black lettering. Woodblock frontis- piece by J. Pritchard. Staples slightly rusty, otherwise a fine copy. [41913] £2,250 By a long way Golding’s scarcest work. “First printed in ‘The Listener’, this pamphlet was commissioned by E. G. H. Kempson, and exe- cuted by L. J. Randle (now printer at the Whittington Press - this being his first piece of printing). Mrs Kempson recalls that only 20 or 30 copies were printed, though John Randle suggests that the figure may have been closer to 100.” - Gekoski & Grogan.
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