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19763119771976. 1 pp. Oblong 4to. Fine old folds. 1 pp. Oblong 4to. INSCRIBED. Inscribed on upper right "for William Targ from Samuel Beckett." William Targ 1907-1999 was editor in chief at World Publishing and then Putnam's before founding his own imprint Targ Editions; he was also a noted bibliophile and Beckett collector. His wife Roslyn Targ 1925-2017 was Beckett's American literary agent. unknown books
1976311741London: Faber and Faber 1976. Uncorrected Proof Copy. 13 pp. 8vo. Blue wrappers. Touch of marginal fading near fine. Uncorrected Proof Copy. 13 pp. 8vo. Faber and Faber unknown books
19581436London: Faber and Faber 1958. First Edition Thus. 8vo 8 1/2 / 215 mm tall 22 pages in sewn decorated wrappers. Light sunning to edges. A Near Fine copy.A fragment of an unfinished novel written ca.1955 featuring the musings of a neurotic man. Beckett told his bibliographers that the fragment resulted from an attempt to return to fiction in English. "Asked why it ends abruptly he replied 'there was just no more to be said.'" Raymond Federman and John Fletcher Samuel Beckett: His Works & His Critics An Essay in Bibliography 1970.Our copy is the first appearance of "From an Abandoned Work" in book form. Trinity News the student newspaper at the University of Dublin Beckett's alma mater first published the fragment in 1956. That was followed by a reprint in the Evergreen Review and a broadcast by the BBC in 1957. Federman and Fletcher 33. <br /><br /> Faber and Faber books
1958WRCLIT71835London: Faber and Faber 1958. Pictorial wrapper over stiff wrappers. First edition in book form. Hint of sunning otherwise about fine. F&F 33.2. Faber and Faber unknown books
195826640London: Faber and Faber 1958. First edition. Wrappers light wear. Name on endpaper. <br/><br/> Faber and Faber unknown books
195814254London: Faber and Faber 1958. Decorated wrappers fine. First edition. <br/><br/> Faber and Faber unknown books
200665447One of 300 Numbered Copies Signed by the Artist ARION PRESS. WILEY William T.artist. Godot. An Imaginary Staging by William T. Wiley of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett San Francisco: The Arion Press 2006. Limited to 300 numbered copies this being number 168. Signed by the artist on the colophon. Folio 15 x 10 inches; 381 x 255 mm. 68 pp. With fifty color illustrations by Wiley in black blue and yellow and two black and while illustrations including a frontispiece portrait and a tailpiece. Publisher's quarter blue cloth over printed pictorial yellow paper boards. Yellow paper spine label lettered in black. Housed in a cloth and paper pictorial slipcase. Mint. With prospectus laid in. "This book is published in 2006 in honor of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Samuel Beckett. It is not the play Waiting for Godot. It is a book about the play: a critic's appreciation a synopsis of the drama and artist's comments and fifty color prints inspired by the play. There are two other prints in black only: a frontispiece portrait of the playwright and an explosive tailpiece." From the Prospectus. HBS 65447. $850 The Arion Press hardcover books
1962428London: Royal Court Theatre 1962. Wrappers. Near fine. Program for the London debut Nov. 1 1962. 8vo. 20 pages. Stapled wrappers. Fine with the gold "First Night" sticker on the front. Inscribed on the cover in ink to the Director of Publicity at New Directions "For Edwin Erbe cordially Samuel Beckett Nov. 1962." Rare signed maybe the only one that's signed and inscribed. An immensely great play but also an immensely strange one so it exasperatingly angers those obsessed with knowing what it means. "It's a most unusual play Feel like throwing my tickets away." -Allan Sherman. Royal Court Theatre unknown books
196260797London:: Faber and Faber. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1962. Hardcover. First British edition. Near fine in a near fine light edge wear at the spine ends and one corner dust jacket. An attractive well preserved copy.; 48 pages . Faber and Faber, hardcover books
196133071NY: Grove Press 1961. First Edition in English preceeds the UK edition. 12mo. pp. 68. Rear cover slightly soiled o/w a fine copy. A paperback original. Grove Press unknown books
1964406014London: John Calder 1964. A superb unopened copy. 8vo. 160 pages. Original vellum gilt-lettered and -ruled on spine top edges gilt others untrimmed entirely uncut and unopened; publisher's plain ivory paper-covered board slipcase. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH DELUXE LIMITED ISSUE number 78 of 100 copies on hand-made paper "series A" bound in vellum another series of 100 copies was issued in tan morocco. Translated from the French by Beckett. first published in French as 'Comment c'est' in 1961 by Les Editions de Minuit. Federman & Fletcher 384.2. A wonderful copy. <br/><br/> John Calder hardcover books
1964WRCLIT71560London: John Calder 1964. Large octavo. Publisher's tan morocco lettered in gilt t.e.g. others untrimmed. Minute fleck of darkening on spine otherwise fine in a very good publisher's slipcase with small label ghost on one panel. First edition limited issue of Beckett's translation of COMMENT C'EST. Copy #51 of one hundred numbered copies in series 'B' hors commerce specially bound from a total of two hundred copies specially printed on handmade paper and signed by the author. F&F 384.1. John Calder unknown books
1976WRCLIT54617New York: Grove Press 1976. 621pp. Cloth. First edition of this selection edited by Richard Seaver. Includes the first American book publication of "That Time." Fine in very good lightly sunned dust jacket. Grove Press hardcover books
19761604063U.S.A.: Grove Press 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First Printing as stated on copyright page. Fine book light wear previous owners writing on front free end paper and tape on front and back paste-down. Near fine dust jacket minor wear and tape on edge of front and back inner flaps. U.S.A.: Grove Press hardcover books
198130231New York: Grove Press 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Good /very good . 8vo. Stated first hardcover edition. 59 pp. A later prose work by the author of Waiting For Godot. Remainder mark to lower edge. Some staining to the front blank endpaper. A good to very good copy in handsome unclipped dustwrapper. Grove Press hardcover books
198139760New York: Grove Press 1981. First American Edition. First Printing cloth issue. Octavo; black paper and white cloth-covered boards with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 595pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket unclipped priced $8.95 with sunning to the pink spine lettering. Attractive copy of Beckett's short novel first published in French under the title Mal Vu Mal Dit in 1981. Grove Press unknown books
19821804108Lord John Press 1982. Special Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Fine presentation copy one of only 299 specially bound numbered copies and twenty-six lettered copies. Signed by the author on half-title. Housed in custom-made case. Lord John Press hardcover books
19821611030Lord John Press 1982. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 299 signed limited copies signed by Samuel Beckett but this one is unnumbered. Fine condition. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Lord John Press hardcover books
1982WRCLIT76931Northridge: Lord John Press 1982. Quarter publisher's calf and marbled boards. Spine very slightly sunned otherwise fine. First limited printing. One of 299 numbered copies of 325 printed at the Bird & Bull Press and signed by the author on the half- title. Lord John Press hardcover books
198215101JNorthridge: Lord John Press 1982. First Edition Thus. Of an edition of 325 copies signed by the author Samuel Beckett this is a special copy with “This is a Presentation Copy†printed on the colophon page and is signed by Samuel Beckett. This copy was presented to author John D. MacDonald and has a Typed Letter Signed from Lord John Press publisher Herb Yellin sending MacDonald the book. Finely printed on mouldmade Bugrabutten paper at the Bird & Bull Press in gilt-stamped leather and printed blue boards. A very handsome production. Fine without dust jacket as issued. Lord John Press hardcover books
1965240801London: Calder & Boyars 1965. First. hardcover. fine. 14pp. small 8vo gray cloth; cloth slipcase. London: Calder & Boyars 1965. Limited First Edition.<br/><br/> No. 17 of 100 copies on hand-made paper signed by the author and printed hors commerce in advance of the first edition.<br/><br/> Calder & Boyars unknown books
1965311731London: Calder and Boyars 1965. Number 11 of 100 copies signed by the author. 14pp. 8vo. Grey cloth in slipcase. Fine some foxing on colophon page. Number 11 of 100 copies signed by the author. 14pp. 8vo. ONE OF 100 SIGNED COPIES ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED. Additionally inscribed on title-page "For/ Bill & Roslyn/ their friend/ Sam." William Targ 1907-1999 was an editor and then head of Putnam's before founding his own imprint Targ Editions; he was also a noted bibliophile and Beckett collector. His wife Roslyn Targ 1925-2017 was Beckett's literary agent. Federman & Fletcher 385 Calder and Boyars unknown books
1965311743Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1965. FIRST EDITION LIMITED ISSUE number 195 of 450 copies on Rives from an edition of 612 there were 50 hors commerce and 112 reserved for the publisher. 18 1 pp. Original white printed wrappers glassine; unopened. Fine. FIRST EDITION LIMITED ISSUE number 195 of 450 copies on Rives from an edition of 612 there were 50 hors commerce and 112 reserved for the publisher. 18 1 pp. Inscribed. Inscribed on the title-page "for William & Roslyn Targ with all good wishes Samuel Beckett". William Targ 1907-1999 was an editor and then head of Putnam's before founding his own imprint Targ Editions; he was also a noted bibliophile and Beckett collector. His wife Roslyn Targ 1925-2017 was Beckett's literary agent. Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books
1965402328Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1965. 8vo. 18 1 pp. Original white printed wrappers entirely unopened. Slightest soiling to wrappers near-fine. FIRST EDITION LIMITED ISSUE number 52 of 450 copies on Rives from an edition of 612 there were 50 hors commerce and 112 reserved for the publisher. <br/><br/> Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books
1969WRCLIT71691Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag 1969. Oblong quarto. Wallet style pictorial boards with fold-in flaps. Photographs. Fine but wanting the plain mailing wrapper. First edition in this format first printing illustrated with a stunning array of production and stage photographs by Rosemarie Clausen beautifully reproduced. The production was directed by Beckett himself and the definitive German text based on that production accompanies the photographs. Suhrkamp Verlag hardcover books
