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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
195921<p><strong>First American Edition</strong>. Presentation copy inscribed to Beckett's British publisher John Calder "John Friendship Sam December 1959". Calder and Beckett were great friends and Calder was the primary publisher of Beckett's prose in the UK following the triumph of Waiting for Godot in 1955. An important item for any Beckett collection.</p><p><strong>BooksCurious</strong></p> Grove hardcover
1953499337Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1953. Softcover. Near Fine. First trade edition. Small octavo. 263pp. Printed wrappers. White printed wrappers are moderately toned on the wrappers text has tanned as usual due to acidic paper a near fine unopened copy. Signed by Samuel Beckett on the title page. A difficult title to find signed by Samuel Beckett. The final volume in the Molloy Malone Dies Unnamable trilogy. Les Editions de Minuit unknown
1951499390Paris: Bordas sheets in Les Editions de Minuit wrappers 1951. Softcover. Near Fine. First French edition second issue binding using the 1947 first edition sheets printed for Bordas but with wrappers printed by Editions de Minuit and issued 1951. According to F&F 145.01 this was "Published by Bordas. MURPHY in four years sold only 95 of the 3000 copies printed. M. Jerome Lindon took over the contract and unsold stock for the Editions de Minuit at the end of 1951." Octavo. White printed wrappers. Text in French. Acidic pages browned as usual due to acidic paper white wrappers lightly toned on spine and extremities edge of spine has narrow faint stain partially unopened. Signed by Samuel Beckett on the title page. First book by Beckett to be translated into French with Beckett's own translation. Elusive title in either issue especially when signed by Beckett. Bordas [sheets in Les Editions de Minuit wrappers] unknown
195747446New York: Grove Press 1957. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/fine. 282p octavo clothbound issue. Translated from the French by Patrick Bowles in collaboration with the author. Fine in very good or better dust jacket lightly toned on the spine and a small chip at the crown. Inscribed by Samuel Beckett on the title page to author Dan Pope "for Dan Pope with all good wishes Samuel Beckett 16.2.88" Additionally signed by Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset beneath the publisher's imprint. Rarely encountered signed by Beckett. <br/><br/> Grove Press hardcover
193825845London:: George Routledge 1938. First edition; second binding. publisher's green cloth lacking the very scarce jacket. in custom cloth folding box. Slightly cocked; spine very slightly faded; but a fresh bright copy of a scarce book. 8vo. George Routledge, hardcover
1958147742New York: Grove Press Inc. 1958. In the original glassine First edition in English limited issue number 45 of 100 copies specially bound in cloth. A comic experiment in an eschatology of lovelessness Endgame was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre London on 3 April 1957; it was originally published the same year in French as Fin de partie. Octavo. Original brown cloth grey paper boards spine and front cover lettered in gilt. With original glassine wrapper. Spine a little faded mild toning to board edges a near-fine copy rare with the original glassine. Federman & Fletcher 376. hardcover
104612Paris Les Editions de Minuit. 1955. . First edition first impression one of 1100 numbered copies from a total edition of 1130 inscribed by the author; 8vo; publisher's white wrappers printed in black and blue wrappers rather used and marked with some wear to the backstrip.<br /> With the author's signed presentation inscription to the half title page 'for John and Vera affectionately Sam. Paris Nov 1955'. The recipients were Beckett's cousin and his wife. Nouvelles et textes pour rien represented a key transitional stage in Beckett's prose writings. It marks the end of the earlier more comedic work heralding the harsher more obviously troubling later pieces such as 'Comment C'Est' and the 'Foirades'. Presentation copies of this intimacy are uncommon.<br /> Paris, Les Editions de Minuit. 1955. unknown
1975BECKETTS014600Les �ditions de Minuit Paris. 1975. First edition. Small octavo. 20 pages. Card wrappers.One of a few copies ''hors commerce en velin sup�rieur marqu�s H.-C.'' Presentation copy from the author inscribed by him on the title-page: ''pour Josette affectueusement - Sam - Paris mai 1975''. The recipient is Josette Hayden who with her husband the painter Henri Hayden was one of Beckett's close friends. The Haydens met him during the war when they were all in refuge from the Gestapo. Their correspondence sold at Sothebys in 2014 for �146.500.Fine. Les �ditions de Minuit, Paris. unknown
1976BECKETTS014601Les �ditions de Minuit Paris. 1976. First edition. Octavo. 17 pages. Wrappers.Number XIV of 25 hors commerce copies. Presentation copy from the author inscribed by him on the title-page: ''pour Josette affectueusement - Sam - Paris f�vrier 1976''. The recipient is Josette Hayden who with her husband the painter Henri Hayden was one of Beckett's close friends. The Haydens met him during the war when they were all in hiding from the Gestapo. Their correspondence sold at Sothebys in 2014 for �146500.Cover faintly tanned at the edges. Fine. Les �ditions de Minuit, Paris. unknown
195321202971953. New York: Grove Press. 1959. 8vo. Grey and brown cloth-backed boards with gilt lettering on spine and front cover; pp. 9 8-254; slight fading of lettering on spine; otherwise fine. First US Edition specially bound and signed edition of 27 lettered copies of which this is copy letter ""I"".Although it remained unpublished until 1953 Watt Beckett's second published novel was written a decade earlier in the South of France while he was in hiding from German occupying forces during WWII having done significant work as part of the French Resistance. One of the strangest and funniest works of the twentieth century. hardcover
1957499331New York: Grove Press 1957. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition limited issue. Octavo. 59pp. Quarter cloth and paper-covered boards. Spine gilt lettering a little tarnished else about fine in fine in publisher's unprinted acetate dust jacket as issued. Copy number 76 of 100 numbered copies hardbound copies. Although not called for this copy Inscribed by Beckett: "for Dan Pope from Sam Beckett." Additionally Signed by Barney Rosset Grove Press publisher. Grove Press hardcover
193526654Paris:: Europa Press 1935. First edition; No. 117 of 250 copies on Alfa paper; the total edition is 327 copies. publisher's printed wrappers in custom cloth folding box. A fresh unworn near fine copy. 8vo. Europa Press, hardcover
19525980Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1952. First edition. Near Fine. A Near Fine copy of the first trade edition following the 35 signed copies. A fragile softcover book uncommon in this condition. Spine slightly toned and a crease running the length slight nicks at the spine ends and a small stain on the rear wrapper. Pages a bit toned as usual otherwise an excellent copy internally. <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. Near Fine. Les Editions de Minuit unknown
1959469710London: Faber and Faber 1959. Softcover. Fine. First English edition. Small octavo. 36pp. Printed wrappers. A fine copy. Inscribed by Beckett on the title page: "for Dan Pope Sam Beckett." A very nice copy and uncommon signed. Faber and Faber unknown
1956499340New York: Grove Press 1956. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition and first edition in English hardcover issue. Translated from the French by the author. Octavo. 120pp. Tan cloth. Spine a little toned very good or better in very good publisher’s acetate dust jacket with the original printed price on the front flap of jacket and with a tear on the rear panel and a few small chips at the extremities. Limited to 500 numbered copies. This is copy number 166. Inscribed by Beckett on the title page: “for Dan Pope from Sam Beckett.†Additionally Signed by Barney Rosset publisher of Grove Press. An increasingly scarce title in the limited issue in original acetate dust jacket and especially uncommon when signed by Beckett. Grove Press hardcover
1957328558New York: Grove 1957. Limited. hardcover. very good/good. 282 pages. 8vo cloth-backed boards; spine lightly sunned; original acetate dust wrapper with 2 large chips. New York: Grove Press 1957. Limited First Edition.<br/> <br/> Niumber 64 of a specially bound limited edition of 100 numbered copies signed by Beckett. This copy bears a 1961 presentation from Barney Rosset the publisher.<br/> <br/> Grove unknown
1954311624Paris: Bordas / Éditions de Minuit 1954. First edition in French second issue. 272 pp. 8vo. Original printed wrappers; glassine; unopened. Text evenly toned otherwise fine. First edition in French second issue. 272 pp. 8vo. First French edition second issue. Inscribed on the title page "For William & Roslyn Targ with all good wishes Sam 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. Bordas / Éditions de Minuit unknown
499291New York: Limited Editions Club 1989. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Illustrated with six etchings by Robert Ryman. Quarto. 128pp. Black Nigerian goatskin titled in gilt. Fine in fine clamshell case with the LEC newsletter laid in. One of 550 copies Signed by Beckett and Ryman. A beautiful production and a fitting collaboration between the author and artist. Limited Editions Club hardcover
366639New York/London: Blue Moon Books and John Calder 1988. Limited edition number 168 of 200 signed by the author and the artist. 1 vols. Folio. Quarter bound in parchment and natural linen that is stamped in 18 carat gold. Publisher's cloth slipcase. As new. Brocquy Louis le. Limited edition number 168 of 200 signed by the author and the artist. 1 vols. Folio. Beckett's last work with illustrations by Louis le Brocquy including one original duotone lithograph. Limited to an edition of 200 numbered copies and 26 copies designated A-Z printed on deckle edged Velin de Rives paper and all signed by the author and the artist. This book is Beckett's last work and was sold out shortly after publication. Blue Moon Books and John Calder unknown
499394New York / London: Blue Moon Books / John Calder 1988. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Large quarto. Illustrated with one color and eight black and white lithographs by Louis le Brocquy. Vellum and linen boards gilt. Fine in fine slipcase. One of 200 numbered copies Signed by Beckett and le Brocquy on the limitation page of a total edition of 226 copies. Additionally Signed and dated by the dedicatee legendary publisher Barney Rosset beneath the printed dedication. Beautifully printed and illustrated. Blue Moon Books / John Calder hardcover
41090Paris: Georges Richar Les Èditions de Minuit. Printed by l'Atelier Georges Leblanc Paris 1970. Oblong 4to. 7 3/8 x 10 inches. Number 25 of 25 copies printed in black on handmade laid paper from Auvergne by Moulin Richard-de-Bas with 5 additional etchings on China paper and an original drawing from a total edition of 175; plus 17 non-commercial copies: copies numbered I-VII were reserved for the authors and editor; copies numbered VIII-XV reserved for collaborators; and 2 copies numbered 0 and 00 reserved for the Bibliothèque Nationale. Signed by Beckett in ink and with Deyrolle's atelier stamp. Text in French. Illustrated with 5 etchings after drawings by Jean Deyrolle etched by Louis Maccard. 12 5 etchings 4 1 drawing 1-10 11-24 8. Loose folded sheets in stiff folded wrappers as issued. Housed in the publisher's beige clamshell box<br/> <br/> One of twenty-five signed first edition copies of Samuel Beckett's collaboration with the French abstractionist Jean Deyrolle that include 5 additional etchings and an original Deyrolle drawing. Séjour was Deyrolle's last work; he died in Toulon during its production.<br/> <br/> Séjour is the first section of text from Samuel Beckett's 1906-1989 short story "Le Dépeupleur" which Les Èditions de Minuit published in French in 1970 and which was later published in English as "The Lost Ones" New York: Grove Press 1972. In spare prose Beckett relates the existence of a people living in a minimalist world inside of a flattened cylinder whose relations are highly restricted by the cylinder's climate of constantly fluctuating weather. The first line of "The Lost Ones": "Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one" appears in Séjour as "Séjour òu des corps vont cherchant chacun son dépeupleur." Beckett the Irish modernist writer was a giant of twentieth-century English literature and is most well-known for his plays Waiting for Godot and Endgame both of which take place in similarly bleak blank worlds of bizarre interaction and existential black humor. Jean Deyrolle 1911-1967 was a leading abstract painter in Post-War France who took ill prior to Séjour's publication convalescing and then dying in Toulon. The suite of five drawings presented here as engraved printed illustrations were chosen by Beckett out of a group of 32 drawings Deyrolle had drawn in the hospital for this collaboration. The artist's book was subsequently published posthumously according to Deyrolle's plans. This is why a studio stamp has been used for Deyrolle's signature. Georges Richar-Riviere who published Séjour under the auspices of both "G. R." and Les Èditions de Minuit also wrote its introduction and later in life edited Deyrolle's catalogue raisonne published in 1998 by Cercle d'Art.<br/> <br/> Georges Richar-Rivier Deyrolle Catalogue Raisonne Paris: Cercle d'Art 1998. Monod n° 1274. Georges Richar (Les Èditions de Minuit). Printed by l'Atelier Georges Leblanc, Paris unknown
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
1959380024New York: Grove Press 1959. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected proof of the first American edition in sewn but unbound folded and gathered sheets. Several old ink and pencil notes possibly used to correct a later edition and small nicks and tears on first and last leaf very good. Rare in this format. Grove Press unknown
