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195847489Paris: The Olympia Press 1958. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. 280p 12mo. Second edition in English and the first cloth bound English-language edition. Green cloth boards with publisher's printed spine and cover labels. A little cocked else near fine in very good or better dust jacket with a few nicks at the extremities. Inscribed by Beckett to Tara MacGowran daughter of Beckett actor Jack MacGowran "For Tara with love from Sam" on the title page <br/><br/> The Olympia Press hardcover
195746452New York: Grove Press 1957. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Grove Press 1957. First American Edition Limited Issue of 100 copies signed by Samuel Beckett at limitation page this being #15. Octavo; clear acetate dust jacket; brown cloth-backed boards lettered in gilt; 282pp. <br /> <br /> Unprinted dust jacket rubbed with chipping to edges and large patch of loss to bottom edge of rear panel. Mild shelfwear to boards; very light spotting to top edge of text block; Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Beckett's first novel originally published in the United Kingdom in 1938 to tepid reviews of which Beckett wrote "The critics have all betrayed the same annoyance. Like the dog's hindquarters when the spine is touched in the right place."<br /> <br /> Carlton Lake "No Symbols Where None Intended." University of Texas at Austin 1984; page 44. Grove Press unknown
576291New York: Gotham Book Mart 1976. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. Quarto. 23pp. Quarter leather and decorated paper covered boards. A fine bright copy in lightly rubbed about fine publisher's slipcase. Copy number 50 of 200 numbered copies Signed by both Samuel Beckett and Edward Gorey. Gotham Book Mart hardcover
1952109378Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1952. First edition one of 2500 copies printed of the author's masterpiece. Octavo original wrappers printed in blue and black. In excellent condition with light rubbing to the extremities. “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. Les Éditions de Minuit unknown
1958149901London: Faber and Faber 1958. First edition of this classic prose monologue. Octavo original illustrated wrappers stitched pamphlet. Presentation copy inscribed by the Samuel Beckett to his favorite American director Alan Schneider "for Alan with love from Sam." The recipient Alan Schneider 1917–1984 was a major American theatre director whose more than one hundred productions made him a crucial mediator between European modernism and postwar U.S. drama. Best known for staging the American premiere of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot 1956 and for his definitive collaborations with playwrights such as Edward Albee and Harold Pinter Schneider developed a spare psychologically exacting directorial style that helped bring avant-garde and absurdist theatre into the American mainstream. His career was recognized with top theatrical honors including the Tony Award for Best Director for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf 1963 and a Drama Desk Special Award in 1984 celebrating the breadth of playwrights he championed. His legacy is further sustained through the Alan Schneider Director Award established in his name. Though Alan Schneider never staged From An Abandoned Work it has been performed on stage and on the radio several times and remains one of Beckett's more popular short pieces. In very good condition. Ownership signature of Alan Schneider to the half-title page. From the collection of Alan Schneider. Samuel Beckett’s From an Abandoned Work 1957 occupies an intriguing place in his oeuvre as a prose monologue that originated in an abandoned attempt at a novel and was later reshaped into a concentrated exercise in memory and voice. The text is spoken by an elderly narrator who looks back on fragments of childhood and early experience yet the recollection is less a coherent autobiography than a Beckettian meditation on the instability of self and the compulsions of narration. First performed on BBC Radio 3 by the Irish actor Patrick Magee the work underscores Beckett’s close engagement with radio as a medium capable of intensifying interior speech; Beckett reportedly found Magee’s performance deeply moving an indication of how profoundly the piece depends on vocal rhythm and affect. Faber and Faber unknown
195328110Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1953. First edition ordinary paper copy one of 3000 printed. Original wrappers covers spotted text paper browned as always unopened. The third novel of Beckett's trilogy. Inscribed "for Austryn Wainhouse / cordially / Sam Beckett / Paris July 1953". A good association. Wainhouse had worked for Olympia Press and was one of the editors of Merlin publishers of Beckett's "Watt". He was best-known as a translator of Sade Bataille de Beauvoir etc and won a National Book Award for translation in 1971. Les Éditions de Minuit unknown
9392New York: The Limited Editions Club 1989. Hardcover. F. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine. The 1st book of the 50th Series of the LEC and the 557th publication by the club. One of 550 copies this being #300 and signed by Samuel Beckett and Robert Ryman. The typeset in English Monotype Bodoni at Golgonooza Letter Foundry with new decending characters from punches cut by Daniel Carr. Text printed at The Shagbark Press on paper made by Cartiere Enrico Magnani. The etchings were printed on arches at Wingate Studio and Renaissance Press and book design by Benjamin Shiff. One of the best books coming from the LEC. A fine book in a NEar Fine clamshell case. The Limited Editions Club hardcover
003707BN.Y.: Gotham Book Mart 1976. Limited Edition. Fine. Edward Gorey. A fine crisp clean and tight copy in a fine slipcase. Limited To 200 Signed copies by Samuel Beckett and the Illustrator Edward Gorey. Copy No. 116. A very nice copy. Gotham Book Mart unknown
185938Reading: Whiteknights Press 1976. But no more tears. Dawns have broken my heart First edition out of series from a limitation of 100 copies signed by Beckett and specially bound; there were also 200 unsigned copies. Beckett's translation of Rimbaud's poem appears here for the first time though it was written more than 40 years earlier. He undertook the translation at the suggestion of Edward Titus the editor of This Quarter a French literary magazine but it was never published. Beckett's translation is printed in parallel with Rimbaud's original in French and the edition includes a facsimile of Beckett's charred fair copy of the typescript which narrowly survived a house-fire. Folio. Double-page facsimile of Beckett's original typescript; text in French and English line numbers and footnotes printed in blue. Original brown cloth front cover lettered in blue blue pictorial endpapers. Corners just bumped touch of foxing to top edge. A near-fine copy. hardcover
1967BECKETTS005839Faber and Faber London. 1967. First edition. Octavo. 44 pages.Inscribed by the author on the title-page: ''for Tara with love from Sam''. The recipient is the daughter of the actor Jack MacGowran who played Joe in the original production of Eh Joe and whose photograph is on the dustwrapper of this book. Tara MacGowran is herself an actor. It is not known when the book was inscribed but at the time of the book's publication she was three years old.Fine in near-fine price-clipped dustwrapper with publishers' price sticker on front flap. Faber and Faber, London. unknown
1972BECKETTS002306Enitharmon Press London. 1972. First edition. Folio. Loose gatherings in folding wrapper and cloth chemise. Three full-page etchings by Avigdor Arikha.Number 24 of 125 copies numbered in the press and signed by the author. The three etchings are signed by the artist.Fine in slightly dusty matching cloth slipcase. Enitharmon Press, London. hardcover
198723322Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press 1987. First edition deluxe issue. One of 25 numbered copies signed by Beckett the only signed issue of this book out of a total edition of 325 copies printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lion Press this is copy number 1. Very fine copy. Square 4to original quarter morocco & paste-paper boards publisher's slipcase. Very fine copy. Rampant Lions Press unknown
1967499377London: Calder and Boyars 1967. Hardcover. Fine. First English edition signed issue. Octavo. 10pp. Illustrated. Buckram stamped in gold. Copy 35 of 100 numbered copies Signed by Samuel Beckett on the copyright page as issued. A fine copy in fine publisher's unprinted dust jacket and fine publisher's slipcase. An uncommon edition. Calder and Boyars hardcover
1952620470Paris: Les Éditions De Minuit 1952. Softcover. Near Fine. First trade edition. Octavo. 163pp. Text in French. Publisher's white paper wrappers lettered in blue and black. Near fine or better with light crease on top corner and light age-toning to the pages spine and edges near fine with pages unopened and page eleven roughly opened along the foredge. This play was first published in September 1952 by Les Éditions de Minuit and released on 17 October 1952 in advance of the first full theatrical performance with only 2500 copies being printed. Les Éditions De Minuit unknown
1952345788Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1952. First trade edition after 35 signed copies on large paper one of 2500 copies. 162 4 pp. 8vo. Original printed wrappers with author's photograph and blurbs on rear wrapper. A very good plus copy the pages skillfully opened without damage to the margins the spine toned and lightly cocked and with narrow shadow along top edge of front wrapper paper somewhat toned as usual. First trade edition after 35 signed copies on large paper one of 2500 copies. 162 4 pp. 8vo. Beckett's masterpiece and one of the defining works of the 20th century. A major innovation in modern drama possibly the most important play of the 20th Century and certainly the first theatrical success of the Theatre of the Absurd. Waiting for Godot was the play that secured Beckett's lasting fame. No matter that he'd been publishing since the 1920s or was Joyce's amanuensis. This play in which "nothing happens" set him on a course that led to the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.<br /> <br /> Overall a very well-preserved copy: these trade editions from Les Éditions de Minuit are delicate in construction and notoriously fragile. Federman & Fletcher 259; En français dans le texte 395 Les Éditions de Minuit unknown
20158779Dublin: The Salvage Press 2015. Limited Edition. Fine in Fine Archival Case. Limited Edition. "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. Bright and unmarred. Black cloth drop spine box loose fo sheets. fo. np. Illus. b/w plates. Numbered limited edition. Signed by the artists. The Salvage Press unknown
195763761E-289: Grove. Good. 1957. Hardcover. Hardcover. 12mo. Published by Grove Press New York. 1957. 72 pgs. Signed by Samuel Beckett on the limitation page. Number 2 of a limited edition of 250 copies. Bound in patterned brown cloth and white paper covered boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities boards are lightly rubbed and worn. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Foxing present to the endpapers. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Samuel Beckett's celebrated early study of Marcel proust whose theories of time were to play a large part in his own work was written in 1931. It is a brilliant work of critical insight that also tells us much about its author's own thinking and preoccupations. In its own right it is a masterpiece of literary and philosophical creative writing. E-289; 8.1 X 5.5 X 0.5 inches; Signed by Author . Grove hardcover
197224456London: Enitharmon Press 1972. First edition. Avigdor Arikha. 5 7 p. 3 leaves. 41 cm. Wrappers in paper folder cloth chemise and slipcase. Chemise lettering slightly faded otherwise fine. One of 130 press-numbered copies printed at the Rampant Lions Press on English handmade paper signed by Beckett and with each etching signed by Arikha. The text is a previously unpublished fragment from Le Dépeupleur 1970 in English in The Lost Ones 1972. The etchings printed by Studio Prints London are: "The Vanquished I" "Hair" and "The Vanquished II Enitharmon Press unknown
195439342New York: Grove Press 1954. First printing. Fine in near-fine jacket. First edition in English of Beckett's influential and enigmatic "tragicomedy in two acts." The defining drama of the twentieth century and Beckett's masterpiece; written in French like all of Beckett's post-World War II works and translated by himself into the English of this edition. Powerful frustrating agitating and allowing for endless allegorical interpretations the text often bewilders always disturbs but never alienates. Vladimir and Estragon wait in their obscure holding-place captives of an unseen tormentor or their own self-inflicted tragedy of repetition and the audience waits with them. 8'' x 5''. Original blind-stamped black cloth with silver and gilt lettering to spine. In original unclipped $4.75 black-and-white photographic dust jacket designed by Marshall Lee. Red endpapers. 60 2 leaves. Grove Press postcard laid in. Jacket with only shallow edgewear and the usual gentle toning. Pencil marking below jacket price. Pages mildly toned at margins. Grove Press unknown
1954424346New York: Grove Press 1954. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition in English translated by the author preceding the British edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket with modest tanning at the spine two small tears on the front panel and nicks at the corners. A scarce and desirable issue of the Nobel Prize winner's most famous title one of the great works of the world stage. A major innovation in modern drama possibly the most important play of the 20th Century and certainly the first theatrical success of the Theatre of the Absurd. Grove Press hardcover
193546630Paris: Europa Press 1935. Very Good /Very Good . Paris: Europa Press 1935. First Edition Limited Issue of 250 numbered copies on Alfa paper this being #55; full print run of 327 copies. Small quarto; original putty-colored wraps printed in black with flaps over stiff buff paper covers; 44pp. Printer's slip with issue number laid in at rear. Mild toning and light wear to edges; binding sound and pages unmarked. A well preserved Very Good or better copy of an uncommon early Beckett collection. <br /> <br /> Federman & Fletcher no. 22; Carlton Lake "No Symbols Where None Intended." University of Texas at Austin 1984; no. 41. Europa Press unknown
195410036<p>First trade edition published by Grove Press in 1954. The American edition followed the original Paris production. Beckett did his own translation. Text preceded by four pages of photographs. Book is elegantly presented in black boards stamped For Godot and silver lettering to the spine. This copy's only slight imperfection is a ghost of a paperclip appearing on the front flyleaves. Original dust jacket with cast photo from the Paris production is price clipped. Still bright looking. Shows visible loss/damage along the top edge and a couple of clean tears 1'4 inch and 2 inches . A desirable copy of an iconic work.</p><p>Book fine: dj very good.</p> Grove Press hardcover
1954112614Grove Press 1954. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. 1954 Grove Press first American edition first printing in price intact $4.75 very lightly rubbed jacket. Faint ownership stamp to flyleaf otherwise tight and unmarked. Please email for photos. Grove Press hardcover
198983344Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1989. Fine. Les Editions de Minuit Paris 1989 10 x 18 cm broché First edition on ordinary paper. Signed autograph inscription from Samuel Beckett to his long-time friend Josette Hayden wife of the cubist then realist painter of Polish origin Henri Hayden. The numerous exchanges between the latter and Beckett inspired the dialogues of Estragon and Vladimir in Waiting for Godot. The Hayden couple spent twenty years with the writer settled ""in his small pavilion in Ussy near La Ferté-sous-Jouarre this lair this cave where solitary he went to seek the root of words in the abysses of life so close to death. It is there that he forged the greater part of his masterful work."" Christian de Bartillat Deux amis Beckett et Hayden. Beckett had met the Haydens in 1943 when all three had taken refuge in Roussillon escaping the Gestapo. Their shared passion for chess and painting brought them together: ""There are wonderful days. Here and there a dinner with the Haydens. Played chess once. Looking crucified for twenty moves before making an error that resulted in a draw."" Bartillat p. 95. Beckett helped make Hayden's work known after the war notably by helping to organize exhibitions of his works in Victor Waddington's London gallery. After the immense success of Waiting for Godot Beckett bought a country house in 1953 in Ussy-sur-Marne in the hamlet of Molien. There he found the calm and serenity conducive to writing and saw the Haydens almost daily who lived not far away in Reuil-en-Brie. It was in the heart of this ""land neither too green nor too flat"" Beckett wrote to a friend in 1954 that this fraternal and creative friendship flourished punctuated by games of chess. After Henri Hayden's death in 1970 which greatly affected the writer Josette remained a central figure in Beckett's life and work. She helped him record his ideas for future works - several of the writer's notebooks contain passages written in her hand. She also contributed to the writer's biography by sharing her intimate memories and anecdotes published in Deux amis Beckett et Hayden by Christian de Bartillat. Exceptional inscription to a close friend who spent time with Beckett for nearly half a century. Josette Hayden was one of the rare intimates of his reclusive life on the banks of the Marne contributed to the genesis of several of his writings and worked to preserve his memory. Beckett's correspondence addressed to the Hayden couple is preserved at Trinity College Dublin. Les Editions de Minuit unknown
1958700001141<p>New York: Grove 1958 1958. First Edition. SPECIALLY BOUND LIMITED EDITION one of 100 numbered copies of the first appearance in English. This copy is number 24. A landmark of existentialist literature. First published in French in 1957 as FIN DE PARTIE the English translation was prepared by the author. The gilding to the front cover is fresh but it is darkened on the slightly faded spine. There is a bit of shelfwear to the base of the spine top edges are age toned. As with all copies of this book the gutter is darkened at the point where the limitation leaf was bound in. Overall an appealing copy of a rare state of a very important book. Housed in a clear vinyl wrapper.</p> Grove Pree, Inc. hardcover
