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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
198320709Iowa 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 Arches Cover paper by Cheryl Miller L.J. Yanney K.K. Merker and Cynthia Rymer. Berger 80. A fine copy in publisher's slipcase which is slightly sunned at the edges. Henke Dellas. Folio thirteen full-page etchings by Dellas Henke quarter black morocco black morocco fore-tips and paste paper over boards speckled endpapers by Bill Anthony. A fine copy in publisher's slipcase which is slightly sunned at the edges. Iowa Center for the Book at The University of Iowa unknown
19352557Paris: Europa Press 1935. First edition. 38 pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers. Some minor creasing to covers else fine. One of 300 copies on Alfa of a total edition of 327 copies this copy unnumbered. Inscribed by Beckett on the half-title “‘Echo’s Bones were turned to stone’ Ovid Met. 3 --- for Alain and Norma Bosquet in friendship Sam Beckett Paris August 1956†Beckett retained copies of the book for decades as it had sold very poorly and gave some out as gifts to friends. Beckett translated several of Bosquet’s poems. A rather uncharacteristically warm inscription. Federman & Fletcher 22. Europa Press unknown
19574335Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1957. First Edition. Trade Issue one of 3000 copies. Octavo 18.5cm; publisher's original printed wrappers with pages chiefly unopened; 1217pp. Inscribed on the half-title page in the month following publication to Columbia Records president Goddard Lieberson and his wife: "For Mr. & Mrs. Goddard Lieberson / vous cordiale / Samuel Beckett / Paris Feb.1957." Gentle sunning to spine tanning to text edges with a few preliminary and terminal leaves roughly opened else Near Fine housed in a bespoke slipcase and chemise. <br /> <br /> Attractive copy of Beckett's second dramatic masterpiece concerning the ennui surrounding Hamm and Clov two mutually-dependent characters living in a wasteland of rubbish. Lieberson 1911-1977 was the president of Columbia Records from 1956-1971 and again from 1973-1975. Prior to that he had been the producer and driving force behind their adoption of the long-play record LP which allowed for the complete recording on one disc of whole symphonies entire operas and Broadway musicals. He produced several of Columbia's first LP original cast recordings such as South Pacific and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes though he seldom recorded whole plays. The one exception was the original 1956 Broadway production for Waiting for Godot starring Bert Lahr as Estragon and E.G. Marshall as Vladimir. Best known as the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz Lahr's presence on the bill was not enough to make Godot a hit - audiences left in droves and the show folded after 60 performances. Lieberson however saw something special and called for a complete recording of the play. The LP also fared poorly now a collectible oddity though it is thanks to Lieberson that an audio performance of the original Broadway cast exists at all. Given the poor success of Godot Fin de Partie neither made it to Broadway nor was it recorded by Lieberson. The play's American premiere was held in 1958 at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village staged by Godot's original director Alan Schneider and featuring Alvin Epstein one of the play's original cast members in the leading role of Clov. A good association copy likely inscribed just days following publication January 30. Federman & Fletcher 265. Les Éditions de Minuit unknown
1931375865London: Chatto & Windus 1931. First edition. 72 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original decorated paper cover bards. Fine in very good plus dust jacket spine slightly. First edition. 72 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Beckett's second book preceded only by Whoroscope. No. 7 in the series of Dolphin Books. Inscribed by Beckett on the title page: "for Alan with love from Sam". Uncommon signed by Beckett. Chatto & Windus unknown
1929148668London: Faber and Faber Limited 1929. First limited British edition of this collection of critical essays and two letters on James Joyce's book Finnegans Wake. Small octavo original publisher's cloth. Boldly signed by Samuel Beckett and Marcel Brion on the half-title page and additionally signed by Beckett above the title of his essay. Samuel Beckett and Marcel Brion both personally knew James Joyce and were early defenders of his experimental work 'Finnegans Wake.' Beckett a close associate of Joyce in Paris assisted him with research and contributed an essay to 'Our Exagmination.' Marcel Brion though more distant also knew Joyce and played a key role in promoting Finnegans Wake to a French audience offering interpretive insights that helped frame its reception within European modernism. He also contributed an essay to 'Our Exagmination.' One of 96 numbered copies this example is unnumbered. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Letters of Protest by G.V.L. Slingsby and Vladimir Dixon. From the collection of Robert Duncan. Rare. Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress 1929 is a landmark critical volume that offers some of the earliest responses to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake then still unpublished and known only as Work in Progress. Comprising essays by a range of writers—including Samuel Beckett William Carlos Williams and Stuart Gilbert—the collection attempts to grapple with the experimental form linguistic density and philosophical ambition of Joyce’s evolving text. While some essays offer praise and others express bafflement the volume as a whole reflects the modernist fascination with Joyce’s radical departure from conventional narrative. Faber and Faber Limited hardcover
1930140941751Paris: The Hours Press 1930. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition copy 41 of a limited 100 copies signed by Samuel Beckett from a total edition of 300. Staplebound in publisher's original printed wraps. Near Fine with creasing to corners light soiling and faint sunning to wraps. Pages foxed and staples rusted. The author's first separately published work published by Nancy Cunard's the Hours Press. The Hours Press unknown
1846119054London: Punch Office and Bradbury & Evans 1846 & 1851-52. The Comic Histories in wrappers First editions in the original monthly parts of both of À Beckett's comic histories with illustrations by Leech both very popular in their day and frequently reprinted over the rest of the century. Two works 20 numbers in 19 monthly parts England and 10 numbers in 9 monthly parts Rome both as issued octavo. Hand coloured plate in each and woodcut illustrations in text by Leech. Original blue wrappers printed in black. Housed in 3 custom blue morocco pull-off cases and chemises. Bookplate of Alexander Byers to chemises. Some repair to wrappers minor peripheral creasing or nicking a few ink signatures or other minor marks contents with occasional offsetting or light toning still notwithstanding an excellent set. Abbey Life 434 & 435; Tooley 295 & 298. unknown
94019Paris: Editions de L'Herne 1976. Inscribed to Beckett by one of the editors First edition first printing presentation copy inscribed to Samuel Beckett by Tom Bishop one of the two editors on the front free endpaper "For Sam with more thanks than I could ever tell you with all my friendship and admiration. Tom. Paris Nov 3. 1976". Issued as part of the Cahiers de L'Herne a series of critical monographs in French this publication includes the following works by Beckett: Fragment de théâtre; Bing; Quatre poèmes; Beckett traduit Eluard; Trois textes sur la peinture moderne; Three dialogues with Georges Duthuit; and Cent cinquante citations. Constantin Tacou took over the publication of the Cahiers in 1973. Quarto. With 8 black and white plates. Original pictorial wrappers printed in red and blue. Wrappers a little rubbed and faintly toned spot of foxing to fore edge and front free endpaper. A near-fine copy. Not in Federman and Fletcher. unknown
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
1957140945896Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1957. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing trade issue of one of the Nobel laureate's most enduring works Endgame with text in the original French. Signed by Samuel Beckett on the half-title page and inscribed to a former owner in the year of publication. Bound in publisher's printed wraps. Near Fine with slight lean to spine with slight reading creases and slight wear at ends toning throughout. A fantastic copy. Les Editions de Minuit unknown
1958140948876New York: Grove Press Inc 1958. First American Trade Edition. Very Good. First American trade edition hardcover issue. Signed by Samuel Beckett on the title page though not called for. Bound in publisher's coarse linen lettered in brown. Very Good with toning and foxing to cloth predominantly along top edge. Contents tanned bookseller ticket to rear pastedown. The Irish playwright's absurdist tragicomic that explores futility and the human condition. Set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland it remains one of the Nobel Laureate's most enduring works. Uncommon signed. Federman & Fletcher 376. Grove Press, Inc unknown
365923New York/London: Blue Moon Books and John Calder 1988. Edition of 200 with a further 26 copies designated A-Z all signed by the author and the artist. This is copy J of 26. Inscribed. Illustrated by Louis Le Brocquy with one color lithograph and eight lithographs in black. 1 vols. Folio. Publisher's parchment-backed linen boards stamped in gilt after a design by De Brocquy slipcased as issued. Brocquy Louis le. Edition of 200 with a further 26 copies designated A-Z all signed by the author and the artist. This is copy J of 26. Inscribed. Illustrated by Louis Le Brocquy with one color lithograph and eight lithographs in black. 1 vols. Folio. This a presentation copy on the half-title inscribed by Beckett "for/Tom & Helen Bishop/with love/from Sam/August 89. Blue Moon Books and John Calder unknown
1959140948984New York: Grove Press Inc 1959. First American Trade Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American trade edition first printing. Signed by Samuel Beckett on the title page. vi 254 pp. Bound in publisher's dark grey cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light foxing to top edge of text block light soiling and erased price to front endsheet. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing and light wear. A superb copy. <p>Written in the wake of WWII whilst hiding from the Gestapo in France Beckett penned this absurdist novel in an effort to stay sane following a mental breakdown. Publication ceased until Olympia Press and Merlin adopted it into print in 1953. Droll philosophical and uncompromisingly bleak this work remains a foundation work of existential literature. While copies of the signed limited edition are common on the market signed trade editions are not. Federman & Fletcher 32.2. Grove Press, Inc unknown
21248121982. S.a. not before 1982. Bound A4 facsimile of typescript; limp faux-leather wrappers secured with two marginal brass fasteners upper cover lettered '""Ohio Impromptu"" ""Catastrophe"" by Samuel Beckett' in gilt 1 f. blue paper bound in after Ohio Impromptu; ff. 1 4; 1 5 printed to rectos only; minor wear to edges and corners; some offsetting to blank versos from the 'sticky' raised ink-surface characteristic of early xerography else internally clean throughout; Beckett's presentation inscription 'for Alan Jean Schneider with love from Sam' to first leaf.Facsimile typescripts of two of Beckett's late plays in a presentation binding warmly inscribed by the author to Alan Schneider - director of the first productions of both works - and his wife Jean.Ohio Impromptu was written late in 1980 for a 1981 symposium in Columbus Ohio to mark the author's seventy-fifth birthday produced at the request of Beckett scholar and Associate Professor of English at Ohio State University Stanley Gontarski. The premiere 9 May 1981 a single performance at the Stadium II Theatre Ohio State was directed by Schneider with David Warrilow as the Reader and Rand Mitchell as the Listener. Onstage both sit at a table the former reading from a book recounting a story of solitude loss and vain consolation. Beckett later disclosed that the 'dear face' evoked by the Reader was that of his wife Suzanne: 'I've imagined her dead so many times. I've even imagined myself trudging out to her grave' conversation with James Knowlson. The play however 'through its visual and verbal imagery . manages to transcend any purely personal inspiration' Knowlson.Writing to Beckett after the premiere Schneider reported that 'the play went very well. Audience response was excellent . The visual image was very strong. The two men completely alike in the coats and wigs which I was luckily able to have made without charge by the best wig-maker in New York. There are some laughs not entirely expected by me related to Listener's knocking wanting Reader to go back in his reading' 16 May 1981. Catastrophe bound here with Ohio Impromptu was written in French in 1982 and translated by Beckett in the same year. Dedicated to Czech dramatist Vaclav Havel it was first performed in French at the Avignon Festival on 21 July 1982 'as part of a tribute by various writers to Vaclav Havel' Beckett to Schneider 22 May 1982. Among the starkest of Beckett's late miniatures it presents a silent passive Protagonist manipulated by a Director and his Assistant who adjust his posture clothing and bearing with clinical precision for an unseen audience. At once a study in political oppression as well as of authorship performance and the ethics of representation the play is 'a fitting tribute to the leader of the Velvet Revolution at a 'turning point' the literal meaning of 'catastrophe' in his own and his country's fortunes' Ackerley and Gontarski.Schneider expressed his enthusiasm for the play noting the suitability of David Warrilow for the Protagonist and proposing a double bill with Ohio Impromptu as 'an interesting contrast of vocal and physical image' 11 July 1982. Beckett agreed Paris 23 July 1982: 'Like your suggestion of doing it with David in conjunction with Impromptu' their correspondence leading to a New York run of Ohio Impromptu Catastrophe and What Where at the Harold Clurman Theatre 15 June 1983-15 April 1984; 394 performances. It is likely that this presentation copy of the typescripts of Ohio Impromptu and Catastrophe was printed in association with the occasion.Provenance: From the library of Alan and Eugenie 'Jean' Schneider; Jean Schneider died in the summer of 2025 at the age of one hundred and one.See Schneider Entrances: An American Directors Journey 1986; Harmon ed. No Author Better Served: The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett & Alan Schneider 1998; Ackerley and Gontarski The Faber Companion to Samuel Beckett 2006; Knowlson Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett 1996. hardcover
1957186256New York: Grove Press 1957. Inscribed to Christopher Logue First edition presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page "for Christopher in friendship Sam Paris September 1957". The recipient was the poet Christopher Logue. "In 1953 the world at large knew nothing of a middle-aged Irish writer called Samuel Beckett" wrote Logue. "One day I bought Molloy and Malone. When I read them I felt my mind expanding". He had just started working with Alexander Trocchi on his English-language literary magazine Merlin and knew he wanted to become a publisher. "Beckett was every young publisher's dream come true - a big almost unknown fish". He published editions of Molloy and Malone Dies. This copy is from the trade issue; a further limited edition of 100 copies and 25 signed and numbered copies were also issued. All That Fall is a radio play in one act for 11 voices first broadcast by the BBC Third Programme on 14 December 1957. Octavo. Original cream cloth spine lettered in brown. With dust jacket. Peripheries of covers and book block toned; jacket unclipped toned chips at spine ends and corners one short closed tear and a few nicks at extremities: a very good copy in like jacket. Federman & Fletcher 34. Samuel Beckett "A Man of his Words" The Guardian 1 September 1999. hardcover
196840336Paris: Les Editions Georges Visat 1968. First edition first printing presentation copy inscribed by Beckett on the first blank "to Dick Seaver with love from Sam Paris May 69" from an edition of 154 copies signed by Arikha on each engraving this being one of just 15 numbered in roman. Seaver was a writer and translator and Beckett's editor at the Grove Press. Additionally laid in is a card inscribed by Arikha. Folio. Six original engravings by Arikha. Unbound leaves laid into cream wrappers and contained in a brown cloth slipcase lettered in white. Outer wrappers rather tanned from contact with the slipcase case a little marked but an excellent copy. hardcover
1956BECKETTS015612Grove Press New York. 1956. First edition in English paperback issue in the Evergreen series simultaneous with the hardback. Octavo. pp vi 120. Wrappers.Family copy: presentation copy from the author inscribed by him on the half-title page: ''To John and Vera affectionately Sam. Paris July 1956''. The recipients are the author's cousin and his wife. This is an early inscription as those usually encountered date from the Seventies and Eighties.Some pencilled markings to margins of first few pages. Ink mark to bottom margin of page 1. Covers rubbed dusty and slightly creased. Good only in custom-made folding box. Grove Press, New York. paperback
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
1957469480New York: Grove Press Inc 1957. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Slim octavo. 59pp. A bit of faint offsetting on the rear endpapers else fine in a fine dust jacket with the spine lettering faintly sunned. Briefly Inscribed by Beckett on the title page: "For Dan Pope from Samuel Beckett." The title page is additionally Signed by Grove Press publisher Barney Rossett. It is hard to overestimate the importance of Rosset in promoting the publication of important out-of-the-mainstream literature especially in the careers of Beckett Jack Kerouac William Burroughs and Allen Ginsburg. Grove Press, Inc hardcover
1958499361New York: Grove Press Inc 1958. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition specially bound numbered issue. Translated from the French by the author. Octavo. 92pp. Quarter brown cloth and papercovered boards. Gilt lettering on the spine is evenly tarnished as usual very faint toning on the boards a near fine copy issued without printed dust jacket. Copy number 23 of 100 numbered copies. This copy Inscribed by Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset on the front flyleaf: "for an 'aficionado' of Beckett in the truest and best sense of the word. Barney Rosset 9/19/96." An elusive title in this issue. Along with Waiting for Godot Endgame is considered one of the most important plays in modern literature. Grove Press, Inc hardcover
1957014825New York: Grove Press 1957. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine without dustwrapper as issued. Cloth-backed boards. Beckett's first published novel first published in England in 1938. Copy #22 of only 100 numbered copies SIGNED by the author and specially bound in gilt-stamped brown cloth and tan boards. Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset's copy with the following in his hand on the front endpaper: "publisher's copy/Barney Rosset - GROVE PRESS." Rosset introduced American readers to numerous significant writers including Beckett Ionesco Genet Pinter and Stoppard. He led a successful legal battle to publish the uncensored version of D. H. Lawrence's novel LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER and later was the American publisher of Henry Miller's controversial novel TROPIC OF CANCER. The right to publish and distribute Miller's novel in the United States was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1964 in a landmark ruling for free speech and the First Amendment. <br/><br/> Grove Press hardcover
1952188131Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1952. His masterpiece of absurdist theatre First edition trade issue. The play premiered at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris on 5 January 1953. Its extraordinary success "was responsible for Beckett's rise to worldwide fame as the play rapidly became an object of intense international interest and controversy" ODNB. The trade issue was preceded only by a limited issue of 35 copies on vélin supérieur. In 1955 Beckett's own English translation was performed in London and published in New York by the Grove Press. Octavo. Original white wrappers lettered in blue and black small portrait photograph of the author to rear cover edges untrimmed leaves unopened. With later glassine jacket. Neat hole punch through foot of rear cover and leaves until pp. 143-44 not affecting text. Light toning to spine couple of nicks and creases to edges contents toned as usual. A very good copy. Federman & Fletcher 259. unknown
289246New 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. Robert Ryman. Signed by Beckett and Ryman on the colophon. LEC newsletter laid in. Heavy book may require extra shipping. weight: 3.5 lb. White aquatint etchings by Robert Ryman. The Limited Editions Club. hardcover
469378London: The Little Theatre Club 1971. Unbound. Fine. Broadside. Approximately 8" x 13". Nicely framed. Unexamined out of frame appears fine. An artifact from what was apparently the first production of Waiting for Godot with an all-female cast. We could find little about the production. Beckett and then his estate strongly resisted the casting of female actors going as far as bringing legal action against several production to mixed results. We could find very little record of this particular production. Rare. Presumably not many broadsides survived from the six-day run with a reported audience capacity of 50 if indeed it was ever performed at all. OCLC locates a single copy. The Little Theatre Club unknown