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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
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
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
1929499526Paris / "Made in Great Britain" publisher's rubberstamp: Shakespeare and Company 1929. Softcover. Very Good. First edition English issue published by Shakespeare and Company in Paris with publisher's rubberstamp: "Made in Great Britain" at lower margin of title page. Small octavo. Printed wrappers. Printed wrappers. Ink owner name on the front flyleaf “Charles Forman Brown†and linoleum-cut bookplate of musician Max Hughes on verso of half-title page moderate toning and rubbing at extremities of the wrappers some creasing on front wrap and toning on the cheap acidic paper an about very good copy of a fragile publication. Contains Samuel Beckett's essay "Dante. Bruno. Vico. Joyce" on Joyce's "Work in Progress" being Beckett's first appearance in any book. Also contains the first book appearance of extracts from "Work in Progress" by James Joyce including a passage that was not included in Finnegans Wake. Inscribed by Beckett: "for Dan Pope Samuel Beckett" at the first page of Beckett's contribution at the top margin of the page. Very uncommon signed. Shakespeare and Company unknown
527714Cambridge England: Rampant Lions Press 1987. Unbound. Fine. First edition advance copy. Oblong small quarto. 44pp. consisting of eight unbound and unsewn quires. Fine. Signed by Beckett on the limitation page and designated by the publisher as an out-of-series copy of the 25 signed by Beckett of 325 total. <br /> <br /> The editor Christopher Ricks has transcribed four variant texts of "As The Story Was Told" enhancing the text with selections from other Beckett titles. A nice typographical presentation printed in two colors; the endpapers reproduce Beckett's manuscript in holograph facsimile. Rare in this format; this is the only advance copy of this publication that we have seen. Rampant Lions Press unknown
19833549Iowa: Iowa Center for the Book 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Dellas Henke. One of the 52 signed and illustrated copies. Title page hand-colored in all copies though not stated in the edition. Folio. Approximately 14 x 10.5 inches. Quarter dark brown morocco title blind-stamped over dark gray marbled-paper boards. Black cloth slipcase. Slipcase with trivial shelfwear only book about as new very fine. Century for the Century No. 89. <br/><br/> Iowa Center for the Book hardcover
195147835Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1951. First edition trade issue. Original wraps. Very good . 217p 12mo Printed wrappers. Spine lightly tanned and a bit of smudging on the front wrap very good or better. Inscribed by Beckett: "For Dan Pope Samuel Beckett" The French edition precedes the english language edition. . Scrace signed. <br/><br/> Les Editions de Minuit paperback
1957140948860New York: Grove Press 1957. First American Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition clothbound issue. Signed by Samuel Beckett on the title page though not called for. iv 282 2; ads pp. Bound in publisher's linen with spine lettered in dark brown. Near Fine with foxing to top edge of textblock and boards. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket designed by Francine Felsenthal with toning and light toning soiling and light wear still quite sharp. A lovely copy of Beckett's initially overlooked absurdist novel first published in the United Kingdom in 1938. It was first published in America nearly twenty years later following the success of Waiting for Godot; uncommon signed. Grove Press unknown
2104001Grove Press 1970. signed limited. hardcover. near fine. Signed limited edition 1/200 copies. This copy is not numbered. Near fine sun tanning on spine. Housed in a custom-made slipcase. Grove Press unknown
1958992London: Faber & Faber 1958. First British Edition First Impression. Publisher's Red Cloth Sky Blue Detailing. Very Good/Very Good. A Very Good or Better Book in a Very Good Dust Jacket Unclipped 10s 6d Net. Signed by Author Without Inscription to Title Page. Book is lightly rubbed and sunned to extremities. Boards show some trace soiling. Text block is lightly toned soiled and foxed. Previous owner's name and date present to flyleaf text is otherwise unmarked. Endpapers are a bit foxed with some offsetting. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket is moderately shelf worn with some bumping to tail and crown causing some chipping. White text to spine panel has darkened. Verso is foxed with some toning shadows. Hardcover. Slim Octavo. x 11-60pp. Faber & Faber unknown
193949110Norfolk CT: New Directions 1939. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 196p octavo American issue using sheets of the 1929 Shakespeare and Company. Greenish-blue cloth. Slightest sunning on boards text leaves slightly toned else about fine in slightly spine sunned very near fine dust jacket fresh and bright. Inscribed by Samuel Beckett to author Dan Pope on the title page "for Dan Pope Samuel Beckett" <br/><br/> New Directions hardcover
469370Unbound. Fine. Gelatin silver photograph. The image is framed and matted to 8" x 11¼". Unexamined out of the frame but appears fine. Portrait of Beckett seated in his London hotel room in 1980. Signed by Beckett in the lower margin. Photographer John Minehan had pursued Beckett for a portrait for more than a decade before Beckett finally agreed; he subsequently sat for Minehan on several other occasions. unknown
1955499322New York: Grove Press 1955. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition clothbound issue. Translated from the French by Patrick Bowles in collaboration with the Author. Octavo. 241pp. Cloth. Tiny spot on topedge a near fine copy in near fine dust jacket with lightly spotted spine a small tear on the front panel and with a small internal tape shadow visible only on the inside. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell case with morocco spine label gilt. Inscribed by Beckett on the title page: "for Dan Pope from Sam Beckett 6.11.85." Additionally signed and dated by Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset beneath the publisher's imprint: "Barney Rosset 5/2/02." An especially scarce title in the clothbound issue and rarely found signed by Samuel Beckett. Grove Press hardcover
