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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
193522224Paris: Europa Press 1935. First edition of Beckett's second book of poetry. Although not called for this copy is signed by Beckett in a bold contemporary hand on the title-page and is numbered "28" by hand on the colophon page. The numbers on the colophons of the ordinary edition on Alfa paper were ink-stamped suggesting that this may have been a special copy. A very fine copy rare signed preserved in a half-morocco slipcase. Small thin 4to original printed buff wrappers. A very fine copy rare signed preserved in a half-morocco slipcase. Europa Press unknown books
193527501Paris: Europa Press 1935. First edition. 36 p. 23 cm. Original printed wrappers fine copy. Copy number 46 of 327 copies one of 250 on Alfa paper. Specially signed by Beckett on the title page. Folding case. Davis 35A1. <br/><br/> Europa Press unknown books
19702104001Grove 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 books
193548494Paris: Europa Press 1935. First edition numbered issue. 36 pp. Some uneven offsetting to rear cover else very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 250 numbered copies this is copy #7. Though not called for in this state SIGNED by Beckett on the title page. Federman & Fletcher 22. Paris: Europa Press, unknown books
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
1972CNJL566Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press for The Enitharmon Press 1972. Limited First Edition. Folio. Fine. Arikha Avigdor. Number XIII of XV copies folio size 24 pp. with an extra suite of three etchings all of which are signed by the artist signed by Samuel Beckett on the limitation page. "The North" is a paragraph extracted from the short prose work "The Lost Ones" originally published as "Le Depeupleur" Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1971 by Samuel Beckett 1906-1989. The story has no plot but is rather a metaphorical exploration of the landscape of the unconscious mind evoked through the image of a flattened cylinder and its crowded inhabitants. <br/><br/>Avigdor Arikha 1929-2010 was a close friend of Samuel Beckett who he met in Paris where he settled after escaping a Nazi concentration camp. He is regarded among Israel's greatest postwar artists and was named a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 2005. His images of "the woman vanquished" are chillingly somber and darkly chaotic. A remarkable collaboration between two great artists of the twentieth-century. This is from a special edition of 15 copies which were produced primarily for the publisher Alan Clodd. These were not issued in a slipcase. <br/><br/>____DESCRIPTION: Original white paper portfolio with enclosing lower flap title in blind to the upper cover loose folios as issued three signed etchings with tissue guards together with an extra suite of those same etchings from the text signed hand-set Palatino type J. Barcham Green paper 15" by 11 5/8" 24 pp. limited first edition number XIII of XV copies signed by the author and the artist.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: A fine copy internally bright and complete covers are clean and bright internally free of prior owner markings; crisp and as new a heartbreakingly lovely work. <br/><br/>__POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please contact us for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Rampant Lions Press for The Enitharmon Press unknown books
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
1964WRCLIT71611Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag 1964. Two volumes. 5296;4236pp. Uniform publisher's charcoal gray linen silk markers. A couple of marginal finger smudges toward the rear of the first volume otherwise very good or better in modestly nicked and chipped dust jackets with some hand soiling to the spines. First collective edition of these translations printed parallel with the French or English texts including the first appearance in book form of "Act Sans Paroles II." The German translations were accomplished by Elmar Tophoven. An excellent association set inscribed in each volume by Beckett to his friends Jack and Gloria MacGowran: "for Jack & Gloria with love & gratitude Sam Paris Feb. 1964" and "for Jack & Gloria with love from Sam Paris Jan. 1965." Jack MacGowran 1918-1973 was closely identified with several major roles in Beckett's plays including that of Lucky in Godot at the Royal Court Theatre and the Obie winning off-Broadway anthology "MacGowran in the works of Beckett." Until his premature death at the age of 54 he and his wife Gloria remained among Beckett's closest and most constant friends. F&F 270 & 34.3. Suhrkamp Verlag unknown books
1935311621Paris: Eurora Press 1935. First edition number 153 of 250 copies. 36 pp. 8vo. Original tan printed card wrappers. Wrappers evenly toned text block separated from wrappers. First edition number 153 of 250 copies. 36 pp. 8vo. Inscribed. First edition of Beckett's second volume of poetry following Whoroscope 1931. Inscribed on the title page "For William Targ from Sam Beckett with all best wishes". 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. His wife Roslyn Targ was Beckett's literary agent. An excellent association. Eurora Press unknown books
1934WRCLIT71553London: Chatto & Windus 1934. Tan cloth lettered in blue. Spine cocked and somewhat rubbed and a bit darkened engraved bookplate on front pastedown Sir George Bull Baronet of Hammersmith modest tanning at edges faint discoloration to top stain otherwise a good sound copy without the rare dust jacket. First edition of Beckett's first collection of short fiction by most assessments his scarcest trade publication. The edition consisted of approximately 1500 copies of which only a third sold. Beckett was reluctant to allow its reprinting finally relenting only in 1966 for the "Hors Commerce" edition for scholars which paved the way for the public editions of later years. F&F 16. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1989289246New 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. Signed by Beckett and Ryman on the colophon. LEC newsletter laid in. White aquatint etchings by Robert Ryman. The Limited Editions Club. hardcover books
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
1947311622Paris: Bordas 1947. First French edition first issue one approximately 250 copies in the Bordas wrappers. 201 pp. 8vo. Original printed wrappers glassine unopened. Fine. First French edition first issue one approximately 250 copies in the Bordas wrappers. 201 pp. 8vo. First issue wrappers inscribed to Bill and Roslyn Targ. Presentation copy inscribed on the title-page "For William & Roslyn Targ/ with all good wishes/ Samuel Beckett." Beckett's first novel written in English and originally published in 1938. This French translation appeared 9 years later under the Bordas imprint. At the end of 1953 Les Éditions de Minuit acquired some 2750 unsold copies from Bordas and in early 1954 they reissued them under their own wrappers. <br/>Roslyn Targ 1925-2017 was Beckett's longtime 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. The Targs enjoyed a friendly relationship with Beckett and paid him visits during their trips to Paris with Bill Targ introducing Beckett to Saul Bellow on one ocassion. A fine association. Federman & Fletcher 145 Bordas unknown books
195829154Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1958. First edition. Original wrappers unopened a fine copy. One of 30 numbered copies on pur fil. <br/><br/> Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books
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
1957499344New York: Grove Press 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition limited hardcover issue. Octavo. 282pp. Quarter cloth and paper-covered boards. Binding has slight tanning on boards a near fine copy in publisher's very good or better unprinted acetate dust jacket as issued with a shallow chip at the crown and a short tear. Copy number 20 of 100 numbered specially bound copies Signed by Samuel Beckett on the limitation page. A publisher's copy with publisher Barney Rosset's note: "Publisher's Copy Barney Rosset Grove Press" written in his ink holograph on the front flyleaf. An elusive title in any dust jacket. Grove Press hardcover
195529154Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1955. First edition. Original wrappers unopened a fine copy. Copy 7 of 30 numbered copies on pur fil which with five hors commerce comprise the édition originale. Les Éditions de Minuit unknown
198827441New York / London: Blue Moon Books / John Calder 1988. Limited edition. Louis Le Brocquy. 45 p. 9 ill. 1 col. ; 35 cm. Original quarter parchment with cloth sides slipcase. As new. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Beckett and le Brocquy. The illustrations consist of one original two-tone lithographic portrait of Samuel Beckett and eight original lithographic drawings in black ink all printed by Pierre Chave at his Atelier in Vence France on deckle edged Velin de Rives made by Arjomari France. <br/><br/> Blue Moon Books / John Calder hardcover books
EXE-751Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit, 1957. In-8°, pleine reliure de box gris clair; décor de larges bandes de box noir troué; au travers des déchirures apparaissent des fonds de box rouge vif sur le 1er plat et bleu sur le 2ème; doublure et gardes de daim gris; non rogné; tête dorée; couverture et dos conservés; chemise doublée et étui (Leroux, 1963). Édition Originale. Tirage à 65 exemplaires, celui-ci le numéro 33 des 55 sur vélin pur fil du Marais, 2ème papier après 4 sur vélin d’Arches.
