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197243523NY: Hill and Wang 1972. First US edition. 152 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. NY: Hill and Wang unknown books
199667315NY: Grove Press 1996. First US edition. 192 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. In addition to the conversations with Beckett Bert Lahr Jack MacGowran Billie Whitelaw Mike Nichols Deborah Warner Martin Segal and Edward Beckett appear. NY: Grove Press unknown books
198341346NY: Grove 1983. First edition. 199 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with some light edgewear. NY: Grove unknown books
1969304728New York Grove Press 1969. 1969. First American edition first printing so stated. 8vo. Dust jacket photo by Brassai unclipped. Very good. 318 pages. No signatures or bookplates. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Grove Press [1969]. hardcover books
1971WRCLIT49990London: Chatto & Windus 1971. Cloth boards. Second impression. Poet Cid Corman's copy with his ownership inscription and highlights and annotations throughout. Top edge dusty else fine in near fine dust jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1969WRCLIT35169Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1969. Large octavo. Printed wrappers. Later impression but with the ownership inscription and very frequent annotations of poet/translator Cid Corman. Very good or better. Les Editions de Minuit unknown books
1962WRCLIT80793New York: Grove Press 1962. Stiff typographically decorated wrapper. Light dust smudges to wrapper but very good or better. First edition wrapperbound issue. Laid in is the publisher's review slip with a manuscript note indicating that the cloth copies were still at the binder's and the wrapperbound copies were called in to serve as review copies. GOODWIN A8Aa. F&F 703 Grove Press hardcover books
1971WRCLIT71535London: Turret Books 1971. Large octavo. Cloth. Photographs and facsimiles. Fine in limp plastic wrapper as issued. First edition limited issue. Foreword by A.J. Leventhal. One of 100 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the Beckett. Turret Books hardcover books
1963WRCLIT73089London: John Calder 1963. Cloth. Top edge a trace dust darkened a few tiny spots to front pastedown otherwise a very good copy in lightly used dust jacket. First collective edition including Beckett's translation of THE OLD TUNE and Barbara Bray's translations of CLOPE and DEAD LETTER. F&F 502.02. John Calder hardcover books
1969WRCLIT73281Kent OH: Kent State Univ. Press 1969. Gilt cloth. First edition. From the Serif Series: Bibliographies and Checklists / Number 8. Near fine without dust jacket as issued. Kent State Univ. Press hardcover books
1988227276New York: Gotham Book Mart 1988. First. hardcover. fine. Gorey. A Selection.Adapted by Samuel Beckett and Jack MacGowran. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. 32p. pictorial black boards. New York: Gotham Book Mart 1988. Limited First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Number 15 of 300 numbered copies signed by Beckett & Gorey<br/><br/> Gotham Book Mart unknown books
1972CNJL566Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press for The Enitharmon Press 1972. Limited First Edition. Folio. Fine. Arikha Avigdor. Number XIII of XV copies folio size 24 pp. with an extra suite of three etchings all of which are signed by the artist signed by Samuel Beckett on the limitation page. "The North" is a paragraph extracted from the short prose work "The Lost Ones" originally published as "Le Depeupleur" Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1971 by Samuel Beckett 1906-1989. The story has no plot but is rather a metaphorical exploration of the landscape of the unconscious mind evoked through the image of a flattened cylinder and its crowded inhabitants. <br/><br/>Avigdor Arikha 1929-2010 was a close friend of Samuel Beckett who he met in Paris where he settled after escaping a Nazi concentration camp. He is regarded among Israel's greatest postwar artists and was named a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 2005. His images of "the woman vanquished" are chillingly somber and darkly chaotic. A remarkable collaboration between two great artists of the twentieth-century. This is from a special edition of 15 copies which were produced primarily for the publisher Alan Clodd. These were not issued in a slipcase. <br/><br/>____DESCRIPTION: Original white paper portfolio with enclosing lower flap title in blind to the upper cover loose folios as issued three signed etchings with tissue guards together with an extra suite of those same etchings from the text signed hand-set Palatino type J. Barcham Green paper 15" by 11 5/8" 24 pp. limited first edition number XIII of XV copies signed by the author and the artist.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: A fine copy internally bright and complete covers are clean and bright internally free of prior owner markings; crisp and as new a heartbreakingly lovely work. <br/><br/>__POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please contact us for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Rampant Lions Press for The Enitharmon Press unknown books
1967015657Israel: Tarshish Books 1967. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio. iv pages of text followed by 21 plates interspersed with title sheets. ORiginal hardcover binding wtih minor shelfwear and soiling. Several pages are loosened. The text is clean and unmarked. The introductory text is in Hebrew. First edition. Tarshish Books Hardcover books
19551331132Paris: The Olympia Press 1955. First English Edition. Softcover. Octavo 241 pages; VG; blue and black striped pictorial wrapper over stiff wrappers; very mild rubbing and wear to wrapper; interior clean; shelved case 2. Originally published in Paris by Éditions de Minuit in 1951 Molloy is the only one of Beckett's works not translate by himself alone but rather done as a collaboration. 1331132. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Olympia Press unknown books
D1042Norfolk Connecticut: New Directions n.d. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Publisher's teal cloth; red dust jacket printed in black. Spine a little sunned and rubbed at tips. Dust jacket lightly rubbed; spine a bit darkened and lightly chipped at tips; not price-clipped and presents nicely in mylar. <br/><br/> New Directions hardcover books
198627454Dublin: Black Cat Press in association with Faber and Faber London. with Rier Run Press stamped over 1986. First edition. xxvi 2 402 p. Eoin O'Brien ; photography David H. Davison ; foreword James Knowlson ; illustrations Robert Ballagh. ill. ; 27 cm. Cloth fine in slightly faded dust jacket. <br/><br/> Black Cat Press in association with Faber and Faber, London. with Rier Run Press stamped over hardcover books
P4727Prague: DILIA 1964. Octavo 19.6 à 14 cm. Original decorative wrappers; 223 1 pp. A very good copy. The first appearance of any work by Samuel Beckett in Czech was this translation of the absurdist and existentialist play distributed for private use by literary and theatre professionals by DILIA the Czechoslovak literary and theatre agency. Expressly marked "not for sale" "Neprodejný text". This is the first printing second and third runs with variant colored wrappers were published due to large demand but in relatively low numbers given the caveat of the book being a purely internal non-commercial publication. The first regularly distributed edition of Beckett's work had to await the end of the "Normalization" period a period of strict political control which followed the short intermezzo of the liberal Prague Spring of the 1960s and could only be published in 1986. Nevertheless Beckett was quite influential in Communist Czechoslovakia impacting playwrights such as Vaclav Havel. The translator JiÅà KoláŠwas one of the most important post-war artists a pioneer of the collage medium and a key advocate of concrete poetry. KVK OCLC only show the copy at the Czech National Library. unknown books
1988CNJL050New York / London: Blue Moon Books / John Calder 1988 1988. 1st and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. le Brocquy Louis. No. XII of XV HC copies folio size 40 pp. signed by Samuel Beckett and Louis le Brocquy. First published appearance of Beckett's last prose work. Per the book's colophon a total of 226 copies were published 200 numbered and 26 lettered A-Z; this volume designated as XII of XV HC hors d' commerce with the initials "BR" for publisher Barney Rosset and is signed by both Becket and le Brocquy. <br/><br/>Samuel Beckett 1906-1989 needs no introduction this prose piece reflects the "compactness" characteristic of his later work. The artist Louis le Brocquy 1916-2012 a friend of Beckett's was one of the few artists whose work commanded prices in excess of GBP 1 million during his lifetime and was honoured as the first and only painter to be included during his lifetime in the Permanent Irish Collection of the National Gallery of Ireland. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Quarter bound in parchment with a natural linen and cotton cloth binding stamped on the front board with a motif by le Brocquy in eighteen carat gold text in Monotype Garamond 156 and printed by lithography on Velin de Rives deckle edged paper. The illustrations consist of one original lithographic image in two tones of Samuel Beckett and eight original lithographic drawings in black ink printed by Pierre Chave at his Atelier in Vence France. First and limited edition which was to consist of 226 copies 200 numbered and 26 lettered apparently an additional XV HC copies were produced this being no. XII signed by both author and artist on signature page following the colophon. 13.25" tall unpaginated with 20 leaves excluding full-page illustration pages. Slipcase bound in matching natural linen/cotton cloth. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Fine the covers clean the corners straight and unrubbed the binding tight with solid hinges the interior clean and bright and free of prior owner markings; in a like slipcase. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Please note that this is an extremely large and heavy book and therefore additional postage will apply. We are happy to ship at cost to both domestic and international customers please inquire for details. <br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Blue Moon Books / John Calder (1988) hardcover books
196420021Stratford CT 1964. Fine. 6.5 x 3.75 in. pictorial envelope. A U.S. First Day Cover commemorating 400th Anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth. Signed by Nobels—Miguel Asturias Samuel Beckett Pearl Buck and Mikhail Sholokov. <br/><br/> unknown books
20158779Dublin: The Salvage Press 2015. Limited Edition. Fine in Fine Archival Case. Bright and unmarred. Black cloth drop spine box loose fo sheets. fo. np. Illus. b/w plates. Numbered limited edition. Signed by the artists. <br/><br/>"No trace anywhere of life you say pah no difficulty there imagination not dead yet yes dead good imagination dead imagine. So begins Beckett’s ‘Imagination Dead Imagine’ a short prose text first published in French in Les Lettres nouvelles in 1965. Its first English publication was in The Sunday Times that same year. <br />"This new edition of loose sheets celebrates the 50th anniversary of the original publishing in 1965. The project is a collaboration between typographic designer Jamie Murphy & visual artist David O’Kane. The work is introduced with an essay by renowned Beckett scholar Stanley E Gontarski. <br />The text has been hand-set & letterpress printed by Jamie Murphy in 18 point Caslon Old Face supported by a newly drawn ten line grotesque typeface by Bobby Tannam cut from maple by Tom Mayo. David O’Kane has supplied two lithographs inspired by the text editioned by Thomas Franke at Stein Werk Lithography studio in Leipzig. The sheets are printed on 250gsm French made Velin Cuve BFK Rives mould-made. The edition is limited to 50 copies 40 of which make up the standard format ten accounting for the de luxe. The bindings were executed by Tom Duffy in Dublin. The standard is housed in a cloth covered portfolio protected inside a slipcase. The deluxe is presented in a clam-shell box accompanied by a typographic triptych based on the text. The standard copies are numbered 11 – 50 the deluxe are numbered 1 – 10. Each copy has been signed by the collaborators. The Salvage Press hardcover books
195729024Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1957. First edition. 77 p. 19 cm. Original wrappers fine unopened. First French edition of All That Fall Beckett's first radio play. One of 80 numbered copies on pur fil including 10 h.c. the entire édition originale. <br/><br/> Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books
195724470Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1957. First edition. 77 p. 19 cm. Original wrappers spine slightly faded else fine unopened. First French edition of All That Fall Beckett's first radio play. No. 11 of 80 numbered copies on pur fil including 10 h.c. the entire édition originale. <br/><br/> Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books
1976CNJL505Hamburg: Raamin-Presse 1976. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Quadflieg Roswtha. No. 91 of 170 copies quarto size 37 pp. signed by Roswtha Quadflieg. Roswtha Quadfleig b. 1949 founded the Raamin-press in 1973 publishing works of literature printed with original graphics in limited editions; she was both the designer of this volume and the artist for the eleven woodcut illustrations. <br/><br/>This story by Samuel Beckett 1906-1989 "The Expelled" deals with rejection following the narrator as he tries to find a new place for himself while presenting his bitterness and anger towards many things in the world; Beckettt was renowned for his writing which often had a bleak tragicomic outlook on human existence; he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Brown laid paper boards with a blind-embossed decoration and the author's name on the front blind-embossed lettering on the spine ivory endpapers sepia woodcuts scattered throughout the text 170 numbered and signed copies per the colophon page this no. 91 signed by Roswtha Quadflieg illustrator and book designer text in German; quarto in size approximately 11.5" tall pagination: 1-35 blank 36 colophon 37. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Fine with a strong square text block solid hinges perfectly straight corners with no rubbing the interior is clean and bright and it is entirely free of prior owner markings - it is clean crisp as new. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please contact us for details. <br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Raamin-Presse hardcover books
200618052111San Francisco / New York: The Arion Press / Grove Press 2006. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Wiley William T. Artist book: Number 68 of 300 elephant folio size 67 pp. signed by William T. Wiley with prospectus and invitation to the publication party. Trade book: octavo size 365 pp. Samuel Beckett 1906-1989 is considered one of the last modernist writers and a key figure in what is known as the "Theatre of the Absurd." Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 1969 most of us are aware of Beckett and "Godot"; however as the prospectus states "his works still cry out for explanations - explanations that Beckett himself adamantly refused to give". For anyone who has been grappling with this explanation this wonderful artist's book will shed new light: it is not the play it is ABOUT the play. Andrew Hoyem designed the artist's book to illuminate the play itself which is why it was published with the trade bi-lingual edition which we also offer here.<br/><br/>This artist's book was published in honor of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Beckett the Irish avant-garde novelist playwright poet and translator. American artist William T. Wiley uses wordplay and visual puns to carry the reader deeper still into irreverence with fifty colour plates each with five lines of text beneath which offer a synopsis of the play or with stage directions. The artist book should be read with the play itself; it is a book written out of love and admiration by a loyal aficionado of Beckett's plays.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Artist book bound with blue cloth backstrip yellow paper spine label with black lettering yellow paper sides imprinted with images by Wiley fifty prints made from photopolymer plates three for each: the black line and the blue and yellow tints two prints in black only frontispiece and tailpiece; Century Expanded type partially handset Hahnemühle linen paper elephant folio size 15.5" by 10 3/8" 1-4 5-65 66 1 colophon pp. limited edition this number 68 of 300 copies signed by William T. Wiley. The slipcase is designed to match the book with the same blue cloth on the edges the same spine label the two sides covered in the same yellow paper; however the lettering is a wordplay on the palindrome "To Dog Godot" which is surrounded by a field of potatoes. Loosely laid in are the prospectus for the book a single sheet folded once for printing folded in half for mailing information about the book on the front and back pages sample pages with illustrations on the two inner pages measuring just under 15" by just under 10"; and a small card invitation to the publication party to be held on December 18 2006. Accompanying the artist book is a trade publication by the Grove Press of "Waiting for Godot" presented in both French and English bound in glossy paper over boards black along the shelfback and grey on both boards black white and blue lettering a notice tipped onto the front pastedown that this copy accompanies the Arion Press artist book black endpapers octavo size 9.25" by 6.25" pagination: i-iv v-viii 1-3 4-357.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Artist book fine overall internally bright and free of prior owner markings text block is tight and square with solid hinges covers are clean corners are straight and unrubbed; a minute abrasion to the paper of the back board where it meets the cloth overall a fine copy. Slipcase also fine overall strong and sturdy the cloth neither sunned nor rubbed the paper label and sides clean and unrubbed; a single shallow mark to one side else fine. Prospectus fine with only original fold publication party invitation fine. The trade edition of the play near fine clean the binding strong with solid hinges free of prior owner markings; a short very shallow mark to the front else fine. The ensemble presents a lovely homage to Beckett and the "most significant English language play of the 20th century" from Wiki per a poll conducted in Britain in 1990.<br/><br/>___CITATION: Arion Press Catalogue no. 77<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Please note that due to size additional postage may apply; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Arion Press / Grove Press hardcover books
1999254884New York: Garland 1999. hardcover. fine. xx 286pp. 8vo cloth-backed pictorial boards. New York & London: Garland Publishing 1999. A fine copy.<br/><br/> Chapters by various authors. <br /> Printed on acid-free 250-year-life paper<br/><br/> Garland unknown books
