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19762305London Paris New York: Editions de Minuit and Petersburg Press S.A. 1976. First edition. Wrappers and box. Fine. ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED ART BOOKS OF THE 20TH CENTURY: SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY JASPER JOHNS AND SAMUEL BECKETT. ONE OF ONLY 250 COPIES from a total edition of 300. "Two of the most enigmatic artists of our time Samuel Beckett and Jasper Johns collaborated on this complex yet elegant artist's book. Originally written in French. the brooding essays were rewritten in English by Beckett for this project. Nevertheless Johns decided to include both texts that expanded his own involvement to thirty-three etchings and aquatints plus color lithograph endpapers. Johns's imagery is based on a major four-panel painting Untitled 1972 along with his classic imagery related to numbers and body parts. This cerebral volume that provokes more questions than it answers is considered one of the greatest artists' books of the second half of the twentieth century" Johnson and Stein Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870-2000. Included in the landmark 1995 Museum of Modern Art exhibit: A Century of Artists' Books.<br /> <br /> Magnificently illustrated with original prints by Johns with the complete set of 33 etchings and aquatints in- and hors-texte including two double pages in colors. Printed on handmade wove Auvergne Richard de Bas paper watermarked with Beckett's initials and Johns's signature. Text in both French and English by Beckett.<br /> <br /> London Paris New York: Editions de Minuit and Petersburg Press S.A. 1976. Oblong folio 13 x 9 3/4 in.; 330 x 247 mm publisher's ivory wove paper binding with aquatint endpapers bound in accordion fold around support leaves; publisher's beige linen box with purple tassel lined with colored lithograph. Printed at Atelier Crommelynck. A small amount of offsetting to text as usual despite all tissue guards present. A MAGNIFICENT WORK IN FINE CONDITION. Editions de Minuit and Petersburg Press S.A. unknown books
559Paris: Les Editions De Minuit. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY BECKETT on the title page; one of the most influential works of modern drama. "Voted the most significant English language play of the 20th century in a British Royal National Theatre poll of 800 playwrights actors directors and journalists. Beckett's naked play about two tramps waiting for Godot has tapped into our 20th-century public consciousness. It seems to express our deepest fears and our deepest knowledge of ourselves and our predicament" Norman Berlin. Notably the first edition of the text provided the public with their first experience of the complete play-Les Editions de Minuit published it three months before the play's debut in French in January 1953. "The first production of Beckett's own English translation directed by Peter Hall was staged at the Arts Theatre Club in London in August 1955. Kenneth Tynan's and Harold Hobson's reviews made it into an intellectual hit which has since been regarded as having transformed the British stage" DNB. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1952. Octavo original wrappers; custom half-leather box. Text in French. Some browning and rubbing to spine. Extremely rare signed. Les Editions De Minuit paperback books
192925938Paris: Shakespeare and Company Sylvia Beach 1929. First edition. 3-194 2 p. 191 x 140 mm. 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. Original printed paper wrappers. Copy no. 60 of 96 numbered copies printed on Arches paper. Mogens Boisen's copy the Danish translator of Ulysses inscribed to him by Sylvia Beach and with two letters from him to a former owner explaining the circumstances. Small chip from rear wrapper edge light creasing on front wrapper otherwise a fine copy. In a folding box with the announcement. "Dante.Bruno. Vico.Joyce" published here constitutes Samuel Beckett's first appearance in print. <br/><br/> Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach unknown books
195621046London: Faber and Faber 1956. First British edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo original black cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page "For Dr. Murray with all good wishes Samuel Beckett Paris July 1981." From the library of Irish book collector Dr. Philip Murray author of The Adventures of a Book Collector. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket that shows some light rubbing to the spine. Translated by Beckett from the original French.<i> </i>Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed by Beckett. One of the most influential plays of the post-war period" and a central document of the Absurdist school Waiting for Godot earned Beckett worldwide acclaim Drabble 1038. "Beckett's work invented an entirely new theatrical language palpable and comprehensible images of the absurd and unforgettable metaphors of the human condition" Hollier 1010. "One of the true masterpieces of the century" Clive Barnes The New York Times. Faber and Faber hardcover books
195721144Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1957. First edition first issue on "grand papier" published January 30 1957. One of 50 copies printed on "velin pur fil du Marais" this being - fittingly - number 13. Endgame is one of Beckett's greatest works the play which he called ‘more inhuman' than Godot and which Harold Bloom in The Western Canon acclaimed as the greatest dramatic work of the 20th century. Bloom argued that Endgame is a ‘greater yet more savage work than Godot: I cannot think of any other 20th century work of literature composed as late as 1957 that is nearly as original an achievement as Endgame nor has there been anything since to challenge such originality. Beckett may have foresworn "mastery" as not being possible after Joyce and Proust but Endgame reaches it'. An immaculate unopened copy of this rare issue preserved in a folding linen box with leather spine. 8vo original printed wrappers. An immaculate unopened copy of this rare issue preserved in a folding linen box with leather spine. Les Editions de Minuit unknown books
19841039Stamford: The New Overbrook Press 1984. This copy in a unique binding by Jack & Emma Craib: full black morocco with mother-of-pearl onlays forming design of characters from the play climbing out of the cylinder tube in which Beckett has set the play. The design reveals itself as a pictorial image only with the use of an anamorphoscope which is a 6 inch silver tube sitting on top of one of the marble onlays. Limited to 250 copies on Rives each copy signed by Samuel Beckett. Each of the seven etchings is hand-numbered and signed by the artist Charles Klabunde. Charles Klabunde master engraver was born in Nebraska where he spent the first two formative decades of his life. He received his MFA at the University of Iowa where his unusual talents were discovered by master print-maker Mauricio Lazansky who invited Klabunde to join his Print Workshop. Following his one-man exhibition at The Minneapolis Institute of Art the artist moved to New York where he established his own printmaking studio and taught at Cooper Union. His work was prominently featured in the 1969 Associated American Artists' "New Talent in Printmaking" Exhibition and in 1970 in "five New York Printmakers" at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1971 he received the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. His works are represented in The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Museum of Modern Art The Victoria and Albert Museum The National Gallery The Art Institute of Chicago the Bibliotheque Nationale etc. Klabunde's imagery and iconography although highly individualistic is often traced from the work of Bosch Durer Breughel Callot Rembrandt Blake Goya Meryon Redon Klinger Ensor Magritte Klee and Picasso. Samuel Beckett received the Nobel Prize in 1969 and great attention was focused on his next work THE LOST ONES which was his most sustained narrative to have appeared for many years. "Inside a flattened cylinder fifty metres round and sixteen high" live Beckett's lost people. Their relentless search for an escape from the cylinder gives THE LOST ONES a tragic force as a mirror of our own existence. Beckett requested that The New Overbrook Press edition include certain alterations to THE LOST ONES which make it the definitive version of his work. The author translated the text from the original French version LE DEPEUPLEUR. The publisher Charles Altschul designed this limited edition as the inaugural offering of The New Overbrook Press. A graduate of Yale University he has received numerous awards for his fine printing and bookmaking. The New Overbrook Press unknown books
198322965Iowa City: Iowa Center for the Book at The University of Iowa 1983. First edition thus. One of 52 press-numbered copies signed by the author and the artist the total edition printed by hand on dampened Arches Cover paper by Cheryl Miller L.J. Yanney K.K. Merker and Cynthia Rymer. Berger 80. A very fine copy. Rare. Henke Dellas. Folio thirteen full-page etchings by Dellas Henke original quarter black morocco black morocco fore-tips and paste paper over boards speckled endpapers by Bill Anthony publisher's slipcase. A very fine copy. Rare. Iowa Center for the Book at The University of Iowa unknown books
1957140941160Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1957. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing of one of the Nobel laureate's most enduring works Endgame with text in the original French. Signed and inscribed by Samuel Beckett in the year of publication "Pour Georges en hommage et reconnaissance Sam Beckett Paris fevrier 1957." Near Fine with light lean to spine and toning to wraps and contents. A fantastic copy housed in a custom cloth case. Les Editions de Minuit unknown books
1952Embry 133383Les Editions de Minuit 1952 but later - ca. 1959. Later printing of first edition 16th thousand. Minor edge wear and small bookseller's label to interior of rear wrapper. Laid into custom made suitable Beckettian clambshell case. Original wrappers. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by Samuel Beckett. Les Editions de Minuit, 1952, but later - ca. 1959. Later printing of first edition (16th thousand.) unknown books
193522224Paris: Europa Press 1935. First edition of Beckett's second book of poetry. Although not called for this copy is signed by Beckett in a bold contemporary hand on the title-page and is numbered "28" by hand on the colophon page. The numbers on the colophons of the ordinary edition on Alfa paper were ink-stamped suggesting that this may have been a special copy. A very fine copy rare signed preserved in a half-morocco slipcase. Small thin 4to original printed buff wrappers. A very fine copy rare signed preserved in a half-morocco slipcase. Europa Press unknown books
193527501Paris: Europa Press 1935. First edition. 36 p. 23 cm. Original printed wrappers fine copy. Copy number 46 of 327 copies one of 250 on Alfa paper. Specially signed by Beckett on the title page. Folding case. Davis 35A1. <br/><br/> Europa Press unknown books
19702104001Grove Press 1970. signed limited. hardcover. near fine. Signed limited edition 1/200 copies. This copy is not numbered. Near fine sun tanning on spine. Housed in a custom-made slipcase. Grove Press unknown books
193548494Paris: Europa Press 1935. First edition numbered issue. 36 pp. Some uneven offsetting to rear cover else very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 250 numbered copies this is copy #7. Though not called for in this state SIGNED by Beckett on the title page. Federman & Fletcher 22. Paris: Europa Press, 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
1964WRCLIT71611Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag 1964. Two volumes. 5296;4236pp. Uniform publisher's charcoal gray linen silk markers. A couple of marginal finger smudges toward the rear of the first volume otherwise very good or better in modestly nicked and chipped dust jackets with some hand soiling to the spines. First collective edition of these translations printed parallel with the French or English texts including the first appearance in book form of "Act Sans Paroles II." The German translations were accomplished by Elmar Tophoven. An excellent association set inscribed in each volume by Beckett to his friends Jack and Gloria MacGowran: "for Jack & Gloria with love & gratitude Sam Paris Feb. 1964" and "for Jack & Gloria with love from Sam Paris Jan. 1965." Jack MacGowran 1918-1973 was closely identified with several major roles in Beckett's plays including that of Lucky in Godot at the Royal Court Theatre and the Obie winning off-Broadway anthology "MacGowran in the works of Beckett." Until his premature death at the age of 54 he and his wife Gloria remained among Beckett's closest and most constant friends. F&F 270 & 34.3. Suhrkamp Verlag unknown books
1935311621Paris: Eurora Press 1935. First edition number 153 of 250 copies. 36 pp. 8vo. Original tan printed card wrappers. Wrappers evenly toned text block separated from wrappers. First edition number 153 of 250 copies. 36 pp. 8vo. Inscribed. First edition of Beckett's second volume of poetry following Whoroscope 1931. Inscribed on the title page "For William Targ from Sam Beckett with all best wishes". 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 was Beckett's literary agent. An excellent association. Eurora Press unknown books
1934WRCLIT71553London: Chatto & Windus 1934. Tan cloth lettered in blue. Spine cocked and somewhat rubbed and a bit darkened engraved bookplate on front pastedown Sir George Bull Baronet of Hammersmith modest tanning at edges faint discoloration to top stain otherwise a good sound copy without the rare dust jacket. First edition of Beckett's first collection of short fiction by most assessments his scarcest trade publication. The edition consisted of approximately 1500 copies of which only a third sold. Beckett was reluctant to allow its reprinting finally relenting only in 1966 for the "Hors Commerce" edition for scholars which paved the way for the public editions of later years. F&F 16. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1989289246New York. : The Limited Editions Club. 1989. . Limited edition #171 of 550 copies. . Hardcover full black goatskin gilt titles clamshell case. Bound by Markey and Asplund. . Fine in a fine clamshell case. . 4to. Signed by Beckett and Ryman on the colophon. LEC newsletter laid in. White aquatint etchings by Robert Ryman. The Limited Editions Club. hardcover books
1947311622Paris: Bordas 1947. First French edition first issue one approximately 250 copies in the Bordas wrappers. 201 pp. 8vo. Original printed wrappers glassine unopened. Fine. First French edition first issue one approximately 250 copies in the Bordas wrappers. 201 pp. 8vo. First issue wrappers inscribed to Bill and Roslyn Targ. Presentation copy inscribed on the title-page "For William & Roslyn Targ/ with all good wishes/ Samuel Beckett." Beckett's first novel written in English and originally published in 1938. This French translation appeared 9 years later under the Bordas imprint. At the end of 1953 Les Éditions de Minuit acquired some 2750 unsold copies from Bordas and in early 1954 they reissued them under their own wrappers. <br/>Roslyn Targ 1925-2017 was Beckett's longtime literary agent. Her husband 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. The Targs enjoyed a friendly relationship with Beckett and paid him visits during their trips to Paris with Bill Targ introducing Beckett to Saul Bellow on one ocassion. A fine association. Federman & Fletcher 145 Bordas unknown books
195829154Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1958. First edition. Original wrappers unopened a fine copy. One of 30 numbered copies on pur fil. <br/><br/> Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books
198827441New York / London: Blue Moon Books / John Calder 1988. Limited edition. Louis Le Brocquy. 45 p. 9 ill. 1 col. ; 35 cm. Original quarter parchment with cloth sides slipcase. As new. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Beckett and le Brocquy. The illustrations consist of one original two-tone lithographic portrait of Samuel Beckett and eight original lithographic drawings in black ink all printed by Pierre Chave at his Atelier in Vence France on deckle edged Velin de Rives made by Arjomari France. <br/><br/> Blue Moon Books / John Calder hardcover 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
19522261Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1952. First edition. Near Fine. A Near Fine copy of the first trade edition following the 35 signed copies. A fragile softcover book uncommon in this condition. Spine slightly toned and rolled slight nicks at the spine ends. Penciled owner signatures on two leaves otherwise an excellent copy internally. Pages a bit toned as usual.<br/><br/>One of the masterpieces of 20th century theatre - Beckett's hugely influential tragicomedy. Beckett had originally written the play in French between the Fall and Winter of 1948-1949. Beckett would not translate the play into English until its London premier in 1955 In fact this edition of the play - the Minuit edition - was released in 1952 before the play's first performance the next year. Beckett was thought to have been inspired to write the work after viewing Caspar David Friedrich's painting "Mann und Frau den Mond betrachtend" Man and Woman observing the Moon.<br/><br/>Upon its French premier the play was met with positive reviews and though it was first received somewhat coldly in London it would soon become a popular and critical success there and worldwide. Some critics like Norman Berlin credit the play's wide appeal to its "stripped down" nature - its simplicity encourages a myriad of readings and interpretations that otherwise could not exist. Beckett would later win the Nobel Prize for Literature and "Waiting for Godot" appears on Le Monde's list of the "100 Books of the Century." <br/><br/>"It arrives at the custom house as it were with no luggage no passport and nothing to declare: yet it gets through as might a pilgrim from Mars. It does this I believe by appealing to a definition of drama much more fundamental than any in the books. A play it asserts and proves is basically a means of spending two hours in the dark without being bored." Contemporary Observer review from the famed drama critic Kenneth Tynan. Near Fine. Les Editions de Minuit unknown books
1952SB009Paris: les èditions de Minuit 1952 First edition first printing. Original publisher's white paper wrappers lettered in blue and black. Near fine or better with some faint creasing to the spine a hint of faint soiling to the otherwise fresh wrappers very minor toning to the otherwise clean pages. Overall a very bright and handsome copy. En attendant Godot is an absurdist play about two main characters Vladimir and Estragon who converse in witty and amusing banter while they wait for Godot who ultimately never arrives. Beckett an Irish author and native English speaker moved to France and subsequently transitioned from writing in English to French including this play. In 1954 Beckett translated this text from its original French into English and it was published in London by Faber and Faber in 1956 under the English title Waiting for Godot. The play originally premiered in Paris at the Théâtre de Babylone in January 1953 and this true first edition uses the text from that production; the subsequent English edition contains the text used by the Criterion Theater for its production of the play after the London premier in August 1955 at the Arts Theater including the "small number of textual deletions" that were made as per Lord Chamberlain's requirements in accordance with the strict UK theater censorship of the 1950's. Many subsequent productions have since altered Beckett's original text leading to a bit of a discrepancy as to which version is the definitive text but this French text is irrefutably the original. Regardless Waiting for Godot is a theatrical masterpiece- "its form is unusual: its contents weird its chief themes are madness boredom suffering cruelty: yet the effect of its inspired cross-talk is hilarious.". 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Paris: les èditions de Minuit paperback books
1954311624Paris: Bordas / Éditions de Minuit 1954. First edition in French second issue. 272 pp. 8vo. Original printed wrappers; glassine; unopened. Text evenly toned otherwise fine. First edition in French second issue. 272 pp. 8vo. Inscribed to the Targs. First French edition second issue. Inscribed on the title page "For William & Roslyn Targ with all good wishes Sam Beckett." Beckett's first novel written in English and originally published in 1938. This French translation appeared 9 years later under the Bordas imprint. At the end of 1953 Les Éditions de Minuit acquired some 2750 unsold copies from Bordas and in early 1954 they reissued them under their own wrappers. <br/>Roslyn Targ 1925-2017 was Beckett's longtime literary agent. Her husband 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. The Targs enjoyed a friendly relationship with Beckett and paid him visits during their trips to Paris with Bill Targ introducing Beckett to Saul Bellow on one ocassion. A fine association. Bordas / Éditions de Minuit unknown books
