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1847D4612London: Punch Bradbury and Evans 1847-8. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Complete set of 2 volumes. Lovely dark brown gilt-ruled morocco and blue marbled paper gilt-stamped lettering and detail in compartmented spine all edges gilt. Each volume complete with 10 hand-colored etchings 20 total as well as numerous woodcuts in text. Joints a bit scuffed; corners lightly bumped; otherwise a simply lovely set. <br/><br/> Punch [Bradbury and Evans] hardcover books
216417London: Bradbury Agnew. hardcover. very good. From the founding of the city to the end of the commonwealth. Illustrated title page 10 color plates and black & white illustrations by John Leech 308pp. 8vo 3/4 calf green leather spine label ornately gilt spine marbled boards marbled edges lightly rubbed. London: Bradbury Agnew & Co. n.d. ca. 1860.<br/><br/> Bradbury, Agnew unknown books
1847897821847. BECKETT S. B. THE PORTLAND REFERENCE BOOK AND CITY DIRECTORY FOR 1847-8. Printed by Thurston & Company 1847. 312 pp. folding map. 12mo. library binding with gilt leather spine label. Ex-library with usual markings; perforation stamp on title page. Folding map published by S. H. Colesworthy complete small closed tear at hinge no loss. Persons businesses vessels railroads societies and lodges and Counting House Almanac; with business directory at end many ads illustrated with wood engravings. a. unknown books
1966WRCLIT71618Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1966. Square octavo. Printed wrappers. Fine unopened in glassine. First edition limited issue. Copy #70 of 550 numbered copies on vélin cuve BFK rives in addition to 100 copies hors commerce and 112 for La Librairie des Éditions Minuit. F&F 276. Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books
1980402327Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1980. 8vo. 87 5 pp. Original white printed wrappers entirely unopened; original glassine. Front panel of glassine with tear at head otherwise fine. FIRST EDITION LIMITED ISSUE number 87 of 99 copies from an edition of 106 there were 7 hors commerce on Alfamousse publisher's numbered limitation ticket. <br/><br/> Les Éditions de Minuit 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
1970WRCLIT71620Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1970. Printed wrappers. A couple of trivial smudges to wrappers otherwise fine unopened. First edition limited issue. Copy #33 of 99 numbered copies on vélin pur fil lafuma in addition to 7 copies hors commerce 200 on Bouffant and 92 for La Librairie des Éditions Minuit. Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books
198125234Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1981. First edition. 19 cm. 76 p. Wrappers fine. Number 65 of 114 copies on Alfamousse. <br/><br/> Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books
198124491Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1981. First edition. 19 cm. 76 p. Wrappers fine. Number 66 of 114 copies on Alfamousse. <br/><br/> Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books
195127774Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1951. First edition. 217 p. 19 cm. Wrappers near fine unopened copy. <br/><br/> Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books
1970WRCLIT71551Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1970. Printed wrappers. Minute snag at fore-margin of first leaf of text otherwise a fine unopened copy. First edition limited issue. Copy #18 of 99 numbered copies plus 7 hors commerce printed on pur fil Lafuma in addition to 292 copies on bouffant. Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books
1955285460Paris: Olympia 1955. First. paperback. fine/near fine. Small 8vo card covers with blue black & gold d.w. very slightly rubbed at the edges. Paris: Olympia Press 1955. First Edition.<br/><br/> Olympia unknown books
1963WRCLIT71563Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1963. Small octavo. Printed wrappers. Fine in glassine with a bit of tanning at the spine. First edition in French of HAPPY DAYS translated by the author. Copy #77 of 412 numbered copies on vélin pur fil reserved for La Librairie des Éditions Minuit from a total deluxe issue of 499 copies. F&F 149. Les Editions de Minuit unknown books
1968WRCLIT71616Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1968. Square octavo. Printed wrappers. Fine unopened in glassine. First collective French edition limited issue. Copy #199 of 550 numbered copies on vélin cuve BFK rives in addition to 100 copies hors commerce and 112 for La Librairie des Éditions Minuit. F&F 279. Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books
1970WRCLIT71612Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1970. Small octavo. Printed wrappers. Fine. First edition in French. Copy #18 of 99 numbered copies on pur fil lafuma from a total deluxe issue of 399 copies. Les Editions de Minuit unknown books
1970WRCLIT27991Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1970. Small octavo. Printed wrappers. Fine. First edition in French. One of 99 numbered copies on lafuma from a total deluxe issue of 399 copies. Les Editions de Minuit unknown books
1969WRCLIT27993Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1969. Square octavo. Printed wrappers. First edition in French. One of 550 numbered copies from a total deluxe issue of 749 on vélin cuve B.F.K. Rives. Fine. Les Editions de Minuit unknown books
196367356NY: Grove Press 1963. First US edition. 61 pp. Small stain to lower corner of text block else near fine in very near fine dust jacket with a small spot on the spine. Federman & Fletcher 40.1. NY: Grove Press unknown books
1852028146London: Bradbury Agnew & Co 1852. Octavo. hand-colored frotispiece and nine other hand colored plates pictorial title page in red and black xii 308 pages. In the middle of the 19th century there was a taste for humor with issues of Punch and in books by Lewis Carroll and Gilbert A Beckett which often had symbolical or allegorical overtones. The puns in this volume often bring a hidden delight along with the ten etched engravings by John Leech all of which are handcolored. Cicero Denouncing Cataline is issued as a frontispience instead of at the end of the book. Bound in 3/4 red polished calf over marbled paper covered boards with matching endpapers all edges marbled raised bands with lettering gilt and compartments fully gilt decorated edges rubbed. A clean bright copy without foxing names or bookplates. Bradbury, Agnew & Co unknown books
1951752051951. BECKETT Samuel. MURPHY. Paris: Bordas 1947 but issued in late 1951 by Les Editions de Minuit. First French edition second issue in wrappers by Les Editions de Minuit. Translated by the author. Octavo largely unopened. 206 pp. White paper wrappers printed in blue and black. Spine is lightly sunned and wrappers show general very light dust-soiling. Text leaves are lightly age-browned. It is a very good copy overall. First issued by Bordas in 1947 only about 95 of the 3000 copies printed had sold after a four-year period when Editions de Minuit took over the contract and unsold stock at the end of 1951. Federman & Fletcher 145.01. unknown books
1968214081Paris: Editions de Minuit 1968. First edition No. 307 of 550 copies total edition of 762 all printed on "velin cuve B.F. K. Rives. 30 2 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original wrappers. Fine copy. First edition No. 307 of 550 copies total edition of 762 all printed on "velin cuve B.F. K. Rives" 30 2 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Editions de Minuit unknown books
1983402330Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1983. 12mo. 20 1 pp. Original white printed wrappers entirely unopened; original glassine. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION LIMITED ISSUE number 57 of 99 copies on Vélin d'Arches there were also an unspecified number of hors commerce copies publisher's numbered limitation ticket. <br/><br/> Les Éditions de Minuit unknown 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
197027509Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1970. First edition. 212 p. 19 cm. Wrappers small abrasion on cover spine slightly tanned but a very nice copy unopened. One of 106 on Lafuma there were also 292 copies on bouffant. <br/><br/> Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books