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499409London: John Calder 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First English edition clothbound issue. Small octavo. 44pp. Cloth. A near fine copy in near fine jacket with light fading on a portion of the rear panel. Inscribed by Beckett: "for Dan Pope from Sam Beckett" on the title page. Signed copies of the trade edition are scarce. John Calder hardcover
1967499411London: Faber and Faber 1967. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Small octavo. 44pp. Red cloth. Fine in price-clipped else fine dust jacket with publisher's cancel price on lower front flap. Inscribed by Samuel Beckett: "for Michael Curtis Samuel Beckett. London June '76. Faber and Faber hardcover
19526134Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1952. First edition. Very Good. A Very Good copy of the first trade edition following the 35 signed copies. A fragile softcover book. Front wrapper reattached and a tear repaired on p 29. Spine creased and a bit toned text block also a bit browned as often. <br /> <br /> Beckett's hugely influential tragicomedy is one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century theater. Beckett had originally written the play in French between the fall and winter of 1948-1949 but would not translate the play into English until its London premier in 1955. In fact this edition of the play - the Minuit edition - was released in 1952 before the play's first performance the next year. Beckett was thought to have been inspired to write the work after viewing Caspar David Friedrich's painting "Mann und Frau den Mond betrachtend" Man and Woman observing the Moon.<br /> <br /> "It arrives at the custom house as it were with no luggage no passport and nothing to declare: yet it gets through as might a pilgrim from Mars. It does this I believe by appealing to a definition of drama much more fundamental than any in the books. A play it asserts and proves is basically a means of spending two hours in the dark without being bored" Contemporary Observer review from the famed drama critic Kenneth Tynan. Very Good. Les Editions de Minuit unknown
1958499483London: Faber and Faber 1958. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 22pp. Pictorial wrappers. A near fine copy with slightest toning on the wrappers. Inscribed by Beckett: "for Dan Pope Sam Beckett 19.12.84". Very uncommon signed. Faber and Faber unknown
1958499481London: Faber and Faber 1958. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Octavo. 22pp. Pictorial wrappers. A fine copy with the covers very bright and crisp. Inscribed by Beckett: "for Michael Curtis Samuel Beckett. London June 1979". Very uncommon signed. Faber and Faber unknown
1982468970Northridge California: Lord John Press 1982. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Quarter blue leather gilt and marbled papercovered boards. Fine. Of a total edition of 299 numbered copies Signed by the author this is apparently a trial binding and is designated with an asterisk and inscribed by the publisher: " This number of 299. An odd binding given to Gary Oleson in friendship. Herb Yellin." Presumably unique. Lord John Press hardcover
1965311731London: Calder and Boyars 1965. Number 11 of 100 copies signed by the author. 14pp. 8vo. Grey cloth in slipcase. Fine some foxing on colophon page. Number 11 of 100 copies signed by the author. 14pp. 8vo. Additionally inscribed on title-page "For/ Bill & Roslyn/ their friend/ Sam." William Targ 1907-1999 was an editor and then 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. Federman & Fletcher 385 Calder and Boyars unknown
499417London: Calder & Boyars 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First English trade edition clothbound issueissued as Signature 9. Small octavo. 21pp. Cloth. A few small soil marks on endpapers and a few pages of text else a near fine copy in near fine bright dust jacket. Inscribed by Beckett to New Yorker author Brendan Gill: "for Brendan Gill with all good wishes Samuel Beckett Paris April 1971". A nice association copy. Gill wrote at least two reviews of Samuel Beckett plays for the New Yorker on January 7 and January 21 1980. Calder & Boyars hardcover
514158Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1970. Softcover. Fine. First edition. 12mo. 215pp. Text in French. White printed wrappers. Top corner very slightly bumped else a fine unopened copy with the covers bright and crisp. Samuel Beckett's first novel to be written in French completed in 1946 and published here for the first time. Limited to 201 numbered copies on bouffant paper. Inscribed by Beckett: "For Michael Curtis from Samuel Beckett Les Editions de Minuit unknown
196738880London: Calder and Boyars 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 168p octavo. 1/100 numbered copies signed by Becket this copy Series A #85. A fine copy in cream boards in publisher's cloth slipcase. Small black mark on base of slipcase. <br/><br/> Calder and Boyars hardcover
19894489New York: Limited Editions Club 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. fine/Very Good. Book is fine with LEC prospectus laid in. Slipcase black cloth has some fading/discoloration but no bumps -- very good or better. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover
469714Dublin / London: Hodges Figgis And Co. Ltd. / The Academic Press Ltd 1973. Softcover. Near Fine. Offprint. Octavo. 1pp. paginated "19". Stapled printed wrappers. Wrappers with a very light ripple on the topedge lower wrap has partially pulled away from the staples near fine. Inscribed by Beckett on the printed leaf: "For Calvin Israel / from Sam Beckett / June 1982." Originally published in Hermathena: A Dublin University Review Centenary Number No. CXV Summer 1973. What appears to be the original plain mailing envelope is included lacking the flap.<br /> <br /> "Kottabista" is Beckett's English translation of one of Chamfort's maxims the piece printed with two short notes from Beckett to the editor the second making a brief correction to the poem. The poem was submitted in honor of the centenary issue of Hemathena. An uncommon offprint especially signed. OCLC locates six copies over two records. Hodges Figgis And Co. Ltd. / The Academic Press Ltd unknown
1963518905Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1963. Softcover. Fine/Near Fine. First French trade edition later printing with '13e mille' printed on rear cover. 12mo. 90pp. Text in French. Pages are very lightly tanned as usual due to acidic paper else a fine bright copy in toned unprinted glassine dust jacket with a short tear. Inscribed by Beckett: "for Dan Pope Samuel Beckett." Published in same year as the first printing. Les Editions de Minuit unknown
514169Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1975. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Narrow 12mo. 27pp. White printed wrappers. Limited to 150 numbered copies on velin arches paper. A fine unopened copy in fine unprinted glassine dust jacket Inscribed by Samuel Becket: "pour Dr. Michael Curtis Hommage de l'auteur Samuel Beckett Les Editions de Minuit unknown
1961499415London: John Calder 1961. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition trade issue. Octavo. 53pp. Blue cloth. Fine in fine bright dust jacket. Inscribed by Samuel Beckett: "for Dan Pope Sam Beckett". Scarce thus. John Calder hardcover
193124547First edition of the author's second book a concise critical study of the fussily introverted novelist by another nuanced but unaffected artist. 8vo. Fine in a fine dust jacket. "The author in his work should be like God in the universe present everywhere and visible nowhere Chatto & Windus hardcover
12236Covelo California: The Yolla Bolly Press. Fine. 1994. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Notes by Eliot Weinberger and Octavio Paz. Xvi 123 2 pp. 12 color etchings by Enrique Chagoya. Folio original pictorial cloth with stitched linen spine linen slipcase. Poems by eleven Mexican poets. Signed at the colophon by Chagoya Paz and Weinberger as issued. One hundred and forty-one copies in the edition of which one hundred and twenty-one were offered for sale. This copy number 44 of 85 copies in slipcase. Prospectus included in original publisher's mailing envelope. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; Making Books in the Woods: 4to; 10 leaves; printed title on opaque paper endpapers. One thousand copies were printed. The type was set in Bembo by Monotype at M&H Type in San Francisco and by hand at the Press. Illustrated with photographs of the Press taken by Brian Shea and printed by duotone offset lithography. A description of a distinctive approach to the printing of fine books - in a barn - within the relatively remote confines of Covelo situated in the Round Valley region of California. . The Yolla Bolly Press hardcover
499354London: Calder & Boyars 1972. Hardcover. Fine. First edition in English signed issue. Translated from the original French by the author. Small octavo. Quarter vellum and green cloth all edges gilt. Very slightly spine-toned still fine in fine publisher's slipcase. One of 100 numbered copies this copy not numbered specially bound and Signed by Beckett on the limitation page as issued. Calder & Boyars hardcover
1971D11040Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1971. Hardcover. Fine. Buckram over boards; 12mo; pp. 232. Association copy inscribed by the author on the title-p. "For Rick / with love / from Sam / Sept. 88." Cluchey's ownership signature on FFEP. Fine. In custom grey cloth box with gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label. <br/><br/>Rick Cluchey is a playwright actor and director who co-founded the San Quentin Drama Workshop notably Becketts American theatre company of choice in the mid-1950s while serving a life sentence at San Quentin State Prison for robbery and kidnapping. After his sentence was commuted he toured Europe with his play "The Cage." There in the 1970s he began his seven-year collaboration with Samuel Beckett serving as the playwrights assistant director on a production of "Waiting for Godot" in Berlin. Cluchey eventually persuaded Beckett to direct him in "Krapps Last Tape" and "Endgame" stagings he later remounted around the world. The two men collaborated with each other until Beckett's death in 1989. Clucheys life and work at San Quentin inspired John Hancocks 1997 prison drama Weeds starring Nick Nolte. Cluchey himself wrote and acted in a play "Rick and Sam" which chronicles his relationship with Beckett. He received an Obie Award for David Mamets "Edmund" a Singapore Festival Award for "Krapps Last Tape" and was the first American to receive Italy's prestigious Premio de la Crítica literary award. Les Editions de Minuit hardcover
19568165London: Faber & Faber 1956. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo 21cm; chickpea yellow cloth with titles stamped in dark red on spine; dustjacket; 89-942pp with "Publisher's Note" slip tipped-in following the copyright page. Some offsetting to endpaper with mild bubbling to pastedowns and light foxing to text edges; cloth is bright and clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 9s.6d. net showing minute wear to spine ends and upper corner tips; very Near Fine with the spine panel notable absent the usual toning. <br /> <br /> Attractive copy of the author's best-known work first published as En attendant Godot in Paris in 1952 and translated into English here by Beckett himself. Federman & Fletcher 373.1. Faber & Faber unknown
19560104654Faber and Faber 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Published in London by Faber and Faber Limited in 1956. "First published in England in mcmlvi" stated on copyright page indicating First UK Edition. Publisher's note tipped in following copyright page. Book very good some foxing and usual browning on free endpapers. DJ very good. Book comes in specially made cloth slip cover. DJ price reads "9s 6d net. Faber and Faber hardcover
196144059New York: Grove Press / Evergreen 1961. Very Good. New York: Grove Press / Evergreen 1961. First Edition preceding the British and French Edition. Signed by Samuel Beckett without inscription at title page. Octavo; illustrated wraps; 64pp. Edgewear and spotting to wraps; slight curling to edges; binding sound; pages unmarked; Very Good. <br /> <br /> Fellow Irishman George Reavey wrote to Beckett of the play "It sings in the memory auricular and visual" and later added that at a later performance "the house was packed and the applause high" though some audience members were too frightened to laugh.<br /> <br /> Federman & Fletcher 39; Carlton Lake "No Symbols Where None Intended." University of Texas at Austin 1984; no. 289. Grove Press / Evergreen unknown
196532455London: Calder & Boyars 1965. Hardcover. First Edition. Limited to 100 signed copies signed by the author. This copy being No. 10 and signed by Beckett at the Limitation Page. 5.25 x 8in. 14pp. Publisher's cloth boards with gilt titling and slipcase. NEAR FINE in Near Fine slipcase. The spine and slipcase show slight sun toning otherwise remain Fine/As New. As pictured. Calder & Boyars hardcover
196244517Paris and Zell am See Austria 1962. Very Good. Paris and Zell am See Austria: 1962 or 1963. Autograph letter on single sheet of blank stationery 27x21cm signed Sam. Beckett addressed to Daniel Lauffer and dated Paris 2.8.62 though the accompanying mailing envelope is postmarked Zell am See Austria 5.vii.63 perhaps from a different Beckett letter to Lauffer. Faint mail folds and light toning to margins else a Very Good example. <br /> <br /> Fairly substantial letter to Daniel Lauffer 1941-2023 a New York-based admirer of Beckett's work as well as a trained psychologist and folk musician. The letter stretching twenty-six lines and approx. 130 words is evidently in response to an information-seeking missive from Lauffer. <br /> <br /> Beckett showcasing his obnoxiously hard to read chicken scratch handwriting reminiscences about contributing to the Surrealist issue of the Paris American review "The Quarter" edited by Edward Titus as well as Nancy Cunard's foundational anthology Negro. In a later paragraph the author explains to Lauffer that Paul Leon "was Joyce's unpaid secretary at least towards the end. I mostly did odd jobs for him. unknown
195744779Paris: Les Editions De Minuit 1957. Very Good. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1957. First French Edition one of 3000 copies. Small slim octavo 18.5cm; publisher's white wrappers printed in blue and black; 77pp. Wrappers a bit dust-soiled and spine toned else a Very Good internally clean sound and unopened copy. Signed by Beckett on title page.<br /> <br /> French translation of Beckett's first radio play "All That Fall" his second piece of drama to follow "Godot." Beckett described its conception in an atmospheric letter to Nancy Cunard "in the dead of t'other night got a nice gruesome idea full of cartwheels and dragging of feet and puffing and panting which may or may not lead to something" No Symbols p. 93. <br /> <br /> References:<br /> <br /> No Symbols Where None Intended : A Catalogue of Books Manuscripts and Other Material Relating to Samuel Beckett in the Collections of the Humanities Research Center pp. 93-4<br /> <br /> Federman & Fletcher 146.1. Les Editions De Minuit unknown
