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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
1968002334Paris Les Editions Georges Visat 1968 In-4 En feuilles, chemise et étui Ed. originale
196826650Paris: Georges Visat 1968. First edition. Arikha Avigdor 1929-2010. Wrappers in publisher's chemise and slipcase. One of 154 copies on Rives total edition. Illustrated with six colored etchings by Avigdor Arikha each signed. Fine. "The colored etchings for L'Issue reveal the subtle and intuitive feeling with which Arikha approaches Beckett's work" Mitchell Beyond Illustration: The Livre d'Artist in the Twentieth Century 53; "The etchings and aquatints in this volume are in Arikha's earlier abstract style. Dark and moody in feeling they are reminiscent of Abstract Expressionism and visually convey the somber outlook of Beckett's literary vision" Johnson Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870-2000 160. <br/><br/> Georges Visat unknown books
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 books
1970311704Paris 1970. In French. A few pencil annotations in an unknown hand clarifying words in text. 3 x 5 to 4 x 5.5 inches; letter 4to. Old folds to letter. In French. A few pencil annotations in an unknown hand clarifying words in text. 3 x 5 to 4 x 5.5 inches; letter 4to. To Jean Demélier. A group of brief responses to his friend the French writer Jean Demélier b.1940 thanking him for his letters mentioning travel plans arranging meetings etc. In the note dated 5-11-70 Beckett punningly congratulates Demélier on his soon to be published first novel Le Rêve de Job Gallimard 1971: "Bon Job bonne patience." Two of the items refer to his opthamologist and the cataract surgery he would undergo in the fall of 1970. unknown books
1962427London: New Arts Theater Club 1962. Wrappers. Near fine. Program for the London first run of this 1 man play featuring Jack McGowran. 8vo. 8 pages. Pink stapled wrappers near fine. The cover is inscribed in ink to the Director of Publicity at New Directions one of Beckett's publishers "For Edwin Erbe cordially Samuel Beckett Nov. 1962." The play would go through several revisions into the 1970s with McGowran earning the 1970-71 Obie for Best Performance by an Actor for his off-Broadway performances in the show. Rare signed. New Arts Theater Club unknown 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
1956406013London: Faber and Faber 1956. A very well-preserved jacket edges with only a few tiny nicks but generally sharp and crisp the upper outer corners of text lightly bumped not affecting text slight discoloration along inner hinges from binding glue as often. 8vo. 94 pages. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket with author's photo on rear panel. FIRST BRITISH EDITION first printing translated by Beckett himself. With the publisher's note tipped in. <br/><br/> Faber and Faber hardcover books
1954160214003New York: Grove Press 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Correct first in the English language as well. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Fore edge has a few small light stains. Bright spine lettering and clean internally: no marks or signs of ownership. Jacket toned as is typical and lightly worn along edges with a tiny stain to front panel creased near top of back panel price intact $4.75. A great copy of the acclaimed absurdist play. Grove Press hardcover books
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" <br/><br/> Enitharmon Press hardcover books
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
