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19591701010Grove Press 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Grove Press Edition 1959 stated on the copyright page INSCRIBED by Samuel Beckett on the title page. First collected edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom-made collector's clamshell case. Grove Press hardcover books
195748499NY: Grove Press 1957. First US edition numbered & signed issue. 72 pp. Hint of sunning to spine else fine in brown quarter cloth with gold stamping. Very near fine clear acetate dust jacket with one tiny chip. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Beckett. Federman & Fletcher 7.12. NY: Grove Press hardcover books
046777Olympia. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Light wear to wraps at edges small puncture to front cover fine internally. Number 489 of 1125 copies. Watt was largely composed while on the run from the Nazis in France from 1942-44. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 046777. Olympia unknown books
198921814New York: Limited Editions Club 1989. leather_bound. Orig. full black morocco. Fine in fine matching black clamshell case. 128 pages. 27.5 x 19 cm. Limited edition copy 53 of 550 signed by Beckett and Robert Ryman. The letterpress type is set by hand in 12 pt. English Monotype Bodoni 357 by Julia Ferrarie and Dan Carr at Golgonooza Letter Foundry with the typographic refinement of extensive kerns. Text printed by David Wolfe at The Shagbark Press in South Portland Maine on 100 percent cotton paper made by Cartiere Enrico Magnani in Pescia Italy. All six aquatints printed on 200 gram Arches paper in combination with handmade Japanese papers. The book carefully hand-sewn and bound in full black Nigerian Oasis goatskin spine and front board stamped in twenty-two carat gold leaf. Six different book binders split the work of this edition with the boxes made by hand at Portfoliobox in Providence Rhode Island from black cotton lined on the inside with gray ultra suede. The label inlaid on the spine of the box is black goatskin stamped in gold. The engravings by Ryman are in white hardly perceptible reliefs an attempt to present Beckett's hauntingly elusive prose. Beckett's work became increasingly minimalist in his later career. LEC prospectus laid-in. Limited Editions Club unknown books
1952160621001Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1952. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. First trade edition first printing in the original French. Approaching Near Fine with toning to pages spine and lightly to wraps light soiling and light wear to wraps with light wear to base of spine. Beckett's masterpiece was first composed and published in French and performed in 1953 at the Theatre de Babylone in Paris. It would later be translated into English by Beckett himself. Les Editions de Minuit paperback books
19821607210Lord John Press 1982. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Publisher's copy. Inscribed to the publisher Herb Yellin by Beckett on the half-title page. Book in fine condition. There were published: 299 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies specially bound all signed by the author. Housed in a custom-made slipcase. Lord John Press hardcover books
1952406012Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1952. A very good plus copy the pages skillfully opened without damage to the margins the spine toned and lightly cockled and with narrow shadow along top edge of front wrapper modest paper somewhat toned as usual. 8vo. 162 4 pages. Original printed wrappers with author's photograph and blurbs on rear wrapper. FIRST TRADE EDITION after the 35 signed copies on large-paper of the original French edition of 'Waiting for Godot'. One of 2500 copies. Beckett's masterpiece and one of the defining works of the 20th century. Overall a very well-preserved copy: these trade editions from Les Éditions de Minuit are delicate in construction and notoriously fragile. Federman & Fletcher 259. <br/><br/> Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books
1952109378Paris: Les Editions 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 Editions de Minuit unknown books
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. <br/><br/> Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books
1954Embry 117974Grove Press 1954. First U.S. edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a lightly toned spine two short closed tears and minor abrasion with a touch of loss to spine tips in mylar cover. Grove Press, 1954. First U.S. edition. unknown books
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
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
1958SB013London: Faber & Faber 1958 First Faber paperback edition first printing. Presentation copy; signed and inscribed by Beckett on the title page to Goucher professor and director of the fall 1965 production of Endgame: "For/ George B. Dowell/ with all good wishes from/ Samuel Beckett/ Paris March 1965." Original publisher's orange paper wraps lettered in black and white. A very good copy with some light wear and rubbing to the extremities first leaf starting else near fine. Scarce signed by Beckett. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. London: Faber & Faber paperback books
1970311756London: Calder & Boyars 1970. Number 90 of 100 copies specially bound and signed by the author. 204 pp. 8vo. Original vellum backed cloth-covered boards cloth slipcase. Spine a touch browned but fine. Number 90 of 100 copies specially bound and signed by the author. 204 pp. 8vo. One of 100 signed additionally inscribed. One of 100 copies signed by Beckett additionally inscribed "for Bill & Roslyn with all good wishes from Sam". William Targ 1907-1999 was head of Putnam's before founding his own imprint Targ Editions; he was also a noted bibliophile and Beckett collector; his wife Roslyn Targ 1925-2017 was Beckett's literary agent. <br/>Beckett's first collection of short prose which originally appeared in 1934 here reissued in a special edition. Calder & Boyars unknown books
