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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
195346727Paris 1953. Uncut in the original printed wrappers worn. Several tears to front wrapper and to spine. <br/><br/><em>First edition presentation-copy of one of Beckett's main works with a signed four-line presentation-inscription in French to half-title dated July 1953. </em> unknown
195346727(Paris, 1953). Uncut in the original printed wrappers, worn. Several tears to front wrapper and to spine.
198458117New York The New Overbrook Press 1984 1 vol. Broché in-folio, en feuilles, emboîtage de toile grège, 35 pp. Belle édition illustrée en anglais du Dépeupleur comprenant 7 grandes eaux-fortes hors-texte justifiées et signées par l'artiste américain Charles Klabunde (1935-2024). La beauté grotesque de ces gravures reflète la vitalité tragique des personnages perdus de Beckett. L'écrivain, qui assure sa propre traduction, y inclut quelques variantes par rapport à l'originale (Minuit, 1970). Tirage limité à 250 exemplaires sur Rives BFK, tous signés par Samuel Beckett. En parfaite condition.
198458117New York The New Overbrook Press 1984 1 vol. Broché in-folio, en feuilles, emboîtage de toile grège, 35 pp. Belle édition illustrée en anglais du Dépeupleur comprenant 7 grandes eaux-fortes hors-texte justifiées et signées par l'artiste américain Charles Klabunde (1935-2024). La beauté grotesque de ces gravures reflète la vitalité tragique des personnages perdus de Beckett. L'écrivain, qui assure sa propre traduction, y inclut quelques variantes par rapport à l'originale (Minuit, 1970). Tirage limité à 250 exemplaires sur Rives BFK, tous signés par Samuel Beckett. En parfaite condition.
179427London: Calder 2002. With a lithograph by Beckett's friend and collaborator First edition limited issue number 81 of 100 copies signed by Le Brocquy. The artist met Beckett in 1978 although he had first used Beckett as a subject in 1965. The two men became good friends during the last eleven years of Beckett's life. Le Brocquy illustrated Beckett's 1988 Stirrings Still and designed the costumes and the set of Walter Asmus's 1988 production of Waiting for Godot. Octavo. Lithograph portrait by Louis le Brocquy. Original green quarter morocco black morocco label spine in gilt compartments marbled sides green patterned endpapers top edge gilt. Housed in the original green cloth and marbled paper slipcase. Corners just rubbed: a fine copy. hardcover
1935D19352Paris: Europa Press 1935. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. First edition one of 327 copies. Publisher's printed tan wrappers in old glassine. 8 7/8 x 6 5/8 inches 22.5 x 16.5 cm; 16 ff. unpaginated . Covers unevenly toned but a sound example else. Originally the title to a rejected final short story in More Pricks than Kicks Beckett used Echo's Bones for the final poem in the present work and then as the title for the entire collection. Deluxe limited first edition small quarto copy number 144 of 250 printed on alfa paper; bound in original publisher's printed wrappers; minor creases tiny open corner tear to one leaf; offsetting to front panel; 8 7/8 x 6 1/2 in. Beckett's first collection of poetry published after the initial version was rejected as the final chapter to More Pricks Than Kicks in 1933 prompting Beckett to revisit Echo's Bones and turn it into a poem. <br/><br/> Europa Press paperback
1995C91217Book Guild Ltd. As New. 1995. Hardcover. 0863329489 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 244 pages 166 illustrations including 30 in color. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Book Guild Ltd hardcover
1866913K1London: Thomas Hailes Lacy 1866-c1875. First edition. Cloth. Good Only. 7" by 4". None. A unique item of London theatre being Gilbert Arthur A'Beckett's own copy of his collection of plays and promptbooks with annotations throughout. A remarkable survival. A vanishingly scarce collection of plays and promptbooks being Gilbert Arthur A'Beckett's own copy with his name and address and several notes through the text by him. Contains the following works: Lending a Hand A Farce In One Act published 1866.In The Clouds; A Glimpse of Utopia published 1873.Christabel; or The Bard Bewitched published c1870. Lacking title page and additional preliminary leaf.The Last of The Legends published 1873. With songs by W. H. C. Nation. An Utter Per-Version of The Brigand published 1867.The White Pilgrim published 1874. With Herman Merivale. Old Sunshine published c1875. Original title page replaced with handwritten title page. Errata leaf tipped in to recto of new title page.The Happy Land published 1873.With Beckett's name and address hand written by the author to front pastedown and additional annotations and crossing out by the author. The most significant of which is an additional thirteen lines of text handwritten by Beckett to the final leaf of 'Old Sunshine'. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding. Joints strained with significant crack to front joint. Board may detach despite careful handling. Bumping to extremities. Marks to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally clean with age toning and the odd mark to the occasional leaf. Lacking title page and additional preliminary leaf to Christabel. Original title page to Old Sunshine replaced with handwritten title page. Errata leaf tipped in to recto of new title page. Good Only Thomas Hailes Lacy hardcover
1956311623New York: Grove Press 1956. First American edition number 431 of 500 hardcover copies. 6 120 pp. Translated from the French by the author. 8vo. Original cloth. Some pen underlining to pp 12-16 otherwise near fine. First American edition number 431 of 500 hardcover copies. 6 120 pp. Translated from the French by the author. 8vo. Inscribed. Inscribed on the title page "for William & Roslyn Targ very cordially Sam Beckett". Roslyn Targ 1925-2017 was Beckett's 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. Grove Press unknown books
2002WRCLIT69504London: Calder Publications 2002. Quarto. Half green morocco and marbled boards raised bands compartments gilt extra t.e.g. Fine in matching slipcase. First edition limited issue. One of one hundred numbered copies 90 for sale specially bound illustrated with an original lithographed portrait frontis of Beckett by Louis Le Brocquy and signed by the artist on the colophon. This edition includes previously uncollected poems and translations as well as some material hitherto unpublished. Calder Publications hardcover books
197215088JLondon: Enitharmon Press 1972. First Edition. Copy 121 of 137 copies signed by Samuel Beckett. Printed by The Rampant Lions Press on fine English handmade paper. Beckett’s writing is a previously unused and unpublished section from the short story - The Lost Ones. Each of the three etchings are hand-signed by artist and close personal friend of Beckett's Avigdor Arikha and are entitled: "The Vanquished I" "Hair" and "The Vanquished II†which were printed separately at Studio Prints London. Size 15 3/4 inches tall x 12 1/16 inches wide. Wrappers in paper folder publisher’s original cloth chemise and slipcase. Fine. Avigdor Arikha 1929 – 2010 was a Romanian-born French-Israeli painter draughtsman printmaker and art historian. His knowledge and skill of art techniques were aligned with those of another close friend renowned photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. He is best known for his portraits nudes still lifes and landscapes and he illustrated some of the texts of Beckett with whom he and his wife American poet and writer Anne Atik maintained a close friendship until the writer's death in 1989. Beckett also contributed introductory and other content to books by and about Arikha's art. Enitharmon Press hardcover books
19541798New York: Grove Press 1954. First English language edition. 61 pp. Black cloth boards lettered in blind silver and copper with the dust jacket. Jacket spine a bit browned as usually seen with some very slight edgewear to the top edge and lower spine edge; book is close to fine. An excellent copy far better than usual. The original French language edition was published two years prior; the Faber edition was published two years later. Grove Press unknown books
20158779Dublin: The Salvage Press 2015. Limited Edition. Fine in Fine Archival Case. Bright and unmarred. Black cloth drop spine box loose fo sheets. fo. np. Illus. b/w plates. Numbered limited edition. Signed by the artists. <br/><br/>"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. The Salvage Press hardcover books
196756New York: Gotham Book Mart 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Number 66 from an edition of 226 of which 26 copies were lettered. Printed on Andorra Paper by the Meridien Gravure Company with design and typography by Ronald Gordon.Features the first appearance in print of Beckett's "All Strange Away." Includes illustrations by Gorey. A near fine copy in paper covered boards with leather spine but with some of the usual rubbing and slight wear to the leather and in a very near fine slipcase and with laid in announcement/prospectus card. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by both Gorey and Beckett on the colophon page. Toledano B61b. Gotham Book Mart unknown
91125London Punch Office Bradbury Agnew & Co. 1846 1st England 1851 1st Rome. Two Volumes. Original monthly issues bound in blue paper covers with black printed lettering and vignettes. Adverts to rears. In later fine red morocco leather slipcase bindings by “W. Zucker Philadelphia.” In very good conditions. With very good box cases. Cases with some minor handling marks some rubbing around bottoms of spines/edges. Original blue paper covers in very good condition. Some minor darkening and rubbing to edges rear cover torn and detached on part 1: Rome. A couple of neat inscriptions to top edges of covers some are rubbed out. Some minor tanning and occasional minor handling marks to pages some minor offsetting adjacent colour plates. Else an excellent set. England: No’s 1-20 in 19 parts No’s XIX & XX bound together. Rome: No’s 1-10 in 9 parts IX & X bound together. Illustrated with 30 hand-coloured engraved plates 20 & 10 respectively. And many smaller B&W illustrations in text. London, Punch Office (Bradbury, Agnew & Co.) 1846 1st (England), 1851 1st (Rome) hardcover
97728London: Punch Office 1852. . First editions. 8vo. 10 parts in 9 as issued 10 hand-coloured etched plates by John Leech illustrations; some light general toning minor offsetting from plates original pictorial printed wrappers; advertisements on inside wrappers and lower wrapper a little minor creasing and rubbing to edges first part with professional repair to spine small hole to upper wrapper. Preserved in modern cloth chemise and morocco-backed solander box by Hyman Zucker of Philadelphia. <br /> <br /> Abbey Life 434; Tooley 296 London: Punch Office, 1852. hardcover
324014New York: The Limited Editions Club 1989. Edition limited to 550 numbered copies signed by Beckett and Ryman. Illustrated with 6 original aquatint etchings by Robert Ryman. 4to. Original full black morocco clamshell case. Ryman Robert. Edition limited to 550 numbered copies signed by Beckett and Ryman. Illustrated with 6 original aquatint etchings by Robert Ryman. 4to. The Limited Editions Club unknown
4066Paris, Editions de Minuit, 1963. 19 x 10 cm, 89 pp. Relié plein box vert, plats décorés d'un rectangle de papier kramkote, dos lisse, titre doré, têtes dorées, couvertures et dos conservées, rhodoïd de protection, sous étui, (reliure signée Christine Giard). Très bel exemplaire. Édition originale, un des 80 exemplaires numérotés sur pur fil (premier grand papier).
4066Paris, Editions de Minuit, 1963. 19 x 10 cm, 89 pp. Relié plein box vert, plats décorés d'un rectangle de papier kramkote, dos lisse, titre doré, têtes dorées, couvertures et dos conservées, rhodoïd de protection, sous étui, (reliure signée Christine Giard). Très bel exemplaire. Édition originale, un des 80 exemplaires numérotés sur pur fil (premier grand papier).
8371Milano: M'Arte Immagini e testi 1974. Rilegato tela custodia cloth slip-case. Ottimo Fine. <strong>Prima edizione</strong> di <em>Still </em>di <strong>Samuel Beckett </strong>con 3 acqueforti originali a colori numerate e firmate di <strong>Stanley William Hayter </strong>cm 22x30. Riproduzione del manoscritto originale Still <strong>con firma autografa di Beckett</strong>. Traduzione a cura di Luigi Majno. Fotografia di Beckett di <strong>Henri Cartier-Bresson</strong>. Note bio-bibliografiche. . Folio. pp. 64 n.n. Ottimo Fine. Alcune fioriture alle pagine di testo che non interessano i fogli delle incisioni che sono in perfetto stato Yellowing of first pages. Edizione originale di 133 XIV es. numerati. M'Arte, Immagini e testi hardcover
198983344Les Editions de Minuit | Paris 1989 | 10 x 18 cm | broché
196651863Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1966. Fine. Les Editions de Minuit Paris 1966 14.50 x 19.50 cm broché First edition. One of 100 deluxe advance copies on B.F.K. de Rives only deluxe copies along with 512 others on B.F.K. de Rives. Precious copy inscribed and dated April 1966 by Beckett to his friend the painter Geer Van Velde and his wife Lise. Nice copy. What to say of the sliding planes the shimmering contours the cut-out figures in the fog the balance that any little thing can break breaking and re-forming themselves under our very eyes How to talk about the colors that breathe and pant Of the swarming stasis Of this world without weight without force without shadow Here everything moves swims fells comes back falls apart re-forms. Everything stops non-stop. One would say it's the revolt of the internal molecules of a stone a split second before its disintegration. That is literature The van Veldes' Art or the World and the Trousers in Cahiers d'Art n°11-12 Paris 1945. Beckett here is not talking despite how it may appear about his literary oeuvre but about the paintings of Geer Van Velde going on to add a few lines later Bram Van Velde paints distance. Geer Van Velde paints succession. This elegy published on the occasion of the double exhibition of the Van Veldes Geer at Maeght's and Bram at the Galerie Mai is the first important text on these painters more or less unknown to the public at the time: We've only just started spouting nonsense about the Van Velde brothers and I'm the first. It's an honor. This is also the first critical text written directly in French by a young Irish writer who had not as yet published anything in France. Thus the first and most important of Beckett's writings on art composed at the dawn of his literary career establishes right from the start a fundamental relationship between his developing work and his friends' art: Thus this text has often been read in a hollow or in the mirror as one of the rare designations of Beckett's poetry to come by the man himself a sort of anamorphic program of writing Un pantalon cousu de fil blanc : Beckett et l'épreuve critique by Pierre Vilar. A real statement of dramaturgical intent this fundamental text whose introspective value Beckett lays out from the introduction on one does nothing but tell stories with words ushers in the writer's most fruitful creative period. In essence like Apollinaire and Cendrars Beckett draws from the artistic problems of his contemporaries the catalyst of his own future writing through the deepest questioning of narrative figurative or poetical presuppositions Pascale Casanova in Beckett l'abstracteur. The major influence of modern painting on the narrative structure or destructuring of Beckett's drama and novels would be pointed out and examined by a number of thinkers among them Gilles Deleuze Julia Kristeva and Maurice Blanchot. It was in fact with the art of the Van Veldes first Geer then Bram that Beckett began to formalize this desire to translate the pictorial question into dramaturgical terms. Thus it was that he rejected Nicolas de Staël's set design for Godot since: the set must come out of the text without adding anything to it. As for the visual comfort of the audience you can imagine how much I care. Do you really think you can listen with the backdrop of Bram's set or see anything other than him Letter to Georges Duthuit 1952. When he met Geer in 1937 Beckett was going through a major existential crisis and had just been reworking his first novel Murphy which had been rejected by a great many publishers. He was lost in alcohol leaving Ireland and moving once and for all to Paris Le Pictural dans l'uvre de Beckett Lassaad Jamoussi. He returned from a long artistic journey in Germany where he was marked by classical works as well as contemporary art it was during this journey that he discovered Caspar David Friedrich's Two Men Contemplating th Les Editions de Minuit unknown
196651867Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1966. Fine. Les Editions de Minuit Paris 1966 14.50 x 19.50 cm broché First edition one of 100 hors commerce numbered copies on BFK de Rives paper the only grand papier deluxe copies with 662 other copies on BFK de Rives paper. Precious copy inscribed and dated October 1966 by Beckett to his friend the painter Geer Van Velde and his wife Lise. Nice copy. What to say of the sliding planes the shimmering contours the cut-out figures in the fog the balance that any little thing can break breaking and re-forming themselves under our very eyes How to talk about the colors that breathe and pant Of the swarming stasis Of this world without weight without force without shadow Here everything moves swims fells comes back falls apart re-forms. Everything stops non-stop. One would say it's the revolt of the internal molecules of a stone a split second before its disintegration. That is literature The Van Veldes' Art or the World and the Trousers in Cahiers d'Art n°11-12 Paris 1945. Beckett here is not talking despite how it may appear about his literary oeuvre but about the paintings of Geer Van Velde going on to add a few lines later Bram Van Velde paints distance. Geer Van Velde paints succession. This elegy published on the occasion of the double exhibition of the Van Veldes Geer at Maeght's and Bram at the Galerie Mai is the first important text on these painters more or less unknown to the public at the time: We've only just started spouting nonsense about the Van Velde brothers and I'm the first. It's an honor. This is also the first critical text written directly in French by a young Irish writer who had not as yet published anything in France. Thus the first and most important of Beckett's writings on art composed at the dawn of his literary career establishes right from the start a fundamental relationship between his developing work and his friends' art: Thus this text has often been read in a hollow or in the mirror as one of the rare designations of Beckett's poetry to come by the man himself a sort of anamorphic program of writing Un pantalon cousu de fil blanc : Beckett et l'épreuve critique by Pierre Vilar. A real statement of dramaturgical intent this fundamental text whose introspective value Beckett lays out from the introduction on one does nothing but tell stories with words ushers in the writer's most fruitful creative period. In essence like Apollinaire and Cendrars Beckett draws from the artistic problems of his contemporaries the catalyst of his own future writing through the deepest questioning of narrative figurative or poetical presuppositions Pascale Casanova in Beckett l'abstracteur. The major influence of modern painting on the narrative structure or destructuring of Beckett's drama and novels would be pointed out and examined by a number of thinkers among them Gilles Deleuze Julia Kristeva and Maurice Blanchot. It was in fact with the art of the Van Veldes first Geer then Bram that Beckett began to formalize this desire to translate the pictorial question into dramaturgical terms. Thus it was that he rejected Nicolas de Staël's set design for Godot since: the set must come out of the text without adding anything to it. As for the visual comfort of the audience you can imagine how much I care. Do you really think you can listen with the backdrop of Bram's set or see anything other than him Letter to Georges Duthuit 1952. When he met Geer in 1937 Beckett was going through a major existential crisis and had just been reworking his first novel Murphy which had been rejected by a great many publishers. He was lost in alcohol leaving Ireland and moving once and for all to Paris Le Pictural dans l'uvre de Beckett Lassaad Jamoussi. He returned from a long artistic journey in Germany where he was marked by classical works as well as contemporary art it was during this journey that he discovered Caspar David Fr Les Editions de Minuit unknown