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196120580Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1961. First edition originally published in French in this form and subsequently translated by the author into English and published by Grove Press in 1964. Copy number C 6 of 110 numbered copies printed on Alfa Mousse Navarre paper reserved "au Club de L'Edition" and signed by Beckett. On the Club copies the back wrapper is blank except for the words "Edition Originale" which appear in the lower right-hand corner. Federman & Fletcher 259. Fine copy. Small 8vo original printed wrappers glassine outer wrapper. Fine copy. Les Editions de Minuit unknown books
1976D11055Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1976. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine/Near Fine. Wraps in glassine dust jacket. Number 45 from a limited edition of 100 copies. Inscribed by Beckett on the title-p. "pour Andre." and dated 1986. Corners lightly rubbed otherwise book is fine in NF dust jacket lightly rubbed and with a few tiny chips along the edges. <br/><br/> Les Editions de Minuit paperback books
195430135New York: Grove Press 1954. First American edition. Black cloth a fine copy in dust jacket price-clipped and slightly darkened. First edition of Beckett's own translation into English. <br/><br/> Grove Press hardcover books
1971WRCLIT71535London: Turret Books 1971. Large octavo. Cloth. Photographs and facsimiles. Fine in limp plastic wrapper as issued. First edition limited issue. Foreword by A.J. Leventhal. One of 100 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the Beckett. Turret Books hardcover books
1960WRCLIT71550Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1960. Octavo. Printed wrappers. Errata slip. A fine copy in glassine with modest tanning along the spine edge. First edition in French in book form translated by Pierre Leyris and the author. Copy #37 of forty numbered copies from a total issue of 47 copies printed on pur fil du Marais. The sole fine paper issue of this edition of the play first published in English in EVERGREEN REVIEW Summer 1958 and in French in LETTRES NOUVELLES March 1959. Rare in this issue. F&F 147.1. Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books
19562005012London: Faber and Faber Ltd 1956. first. hardcover. very good plus/very good. First UK edition First published in England in mcmlvi stated on copyright page. Comes with original playbill from first UK production attached to rear pastedown. Book very good plus writing on front free end paper and top of half-title page. Dust jacket very good. Faber and Faber Ltd unknown books
1988227276New York: Gotham Book Mart 1988. First. hardcover. fine. Gorey. A Selection.Adapted by Samuel Beckett and Jack MacGowran. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. 32p. pictorial black boards. New York: Gotham Book Mart 1988. Limited First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Number 15 of 300 numbered copies signed by Beckett & Gorey<br/><br/> Gotham Book Mart unknown books
1988407692New York: Gotham Book Mart 1988. A fine copy without marks or wear. 8vo. 32 1 pages. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. Original decorated paper over boards gilt-lettered on spines. One of 326 copies signed on the colophon by Samuel Beckett this copy out-of-series and reserved for the printer Ronald Gordon of The Oliphant Press. The edition consisted of 300 numbered and signed copies and 26 lettered and signed copies reserved for Beckett and the Gotham Book Mart. <br/><br/> Gotham Book Mart hardcover books
1845134225London UK: Published at the Punch Office 1845. full leather five raised bands gilt letter on spine. Guild of Women-Binders. 8vo. full leather five raised bands gilt letter on spine. 284 pages. Elegant arts and crafts crimson crushed morocco Guild of Women-Binders bookbinding from the turn of the twentieth century. Single panel in blind to the boards and plain leather turn-ins in place of dentelles with 'Guild of Women Binders' in gilt at the tail of the front pastedown and all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers with some offsetting from the crimson turn-ins. The letter-press title page is preceded by Cruikshank's engraved title page text engraved throughout and very clean. An excellent copy most attractively bound under the aegis of Frank Karslake who founded the Guild. Published at the Punch Office unknown books
200618052111San Francisco / New York: The Arion Press / Grove Press 2006. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Wiley William T. Artist book: Number 68 of 300 elephant folio size 67 pp. signed by William T. Wiley with prospectus and invitation to the publication party. Trade book: octavo size 365 pp. Samuel Beckett 1906-1989 is considered one of the last modernist writers and a key figure in what is known as the "Theatre of the Absurd." Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 1969 most of us are aware of Beckett and "Godot"; however as the prospectus states "his works still cry out for explanations - explanations that Beckett himself adamantly refused to give". For anyone who has been grappling with this explanation this wonderful artist's book will shed new light: it is not the play it is ABOUT the play. Andrew Hoyem designed the artist's book to illuminate the play itself which is why it was published with the trade bi-lingual edition which we also offer here.<br/><br/>This artist's book was published in honor of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Beckett the Irish avant-garde novelist playwright poet and translator. American artist William T. Wiley uses wordplay and visual puns to carry the reader deeper still into irreverence with fifty colour plates each with five lines of text beneath which offer a synopsis of the play or with stage directions. The artist book should be read with the play itself; it is a book written out of love and admiration by a loyal aficionado of Beckett's plays.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Artist book bound with blue cloth backstrip yellow paper spine label with black lettering yellow paper sides imprinted with images by Wiley fifty prints made from photopolymer plates three for each: the black line and the blue and yellow tints two prints in black only frontispiece and tailpiece; Century Expanded type partially handset Hahnemühle linen paper elephant folio size 15.5" by 10 3/8" 1-4 5-65 66 1 colophon pp. limited edition this number 68 of 300 copies signed by William T. Wiley. The slipcase is designed to match the book with the same blue cloth on the edges the same spine label the two sides covered in the same yellow paper; however the lettering is a wordplay on the palindrome "To Dog Godot" which is surrounded by a field of potatoes. Loosely laid in are the prospectus for the book a single sheet folded once for printing folded in half for mailing information about the book on the front and back pages sample pages with illustrations on the two inner pages measuring just under 15" by just under 10"; and a small card invitation to the publication party to be held on December 18 2006. Accompanying the artist book is a trade publication by the Grove Press of "Waiting for Godot" presented in both French and English bound in glossy paper over boards black along the shelfback and grey on both boards black white and blue lettering a notice tipped onto the front pastedown that this copy accompanies the Arion Press artist book black endpapers octavo size 9.25" by 6.25" pagination: i-iv v-viii 1-3 4-357.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Artist book fine overall internally bright and free of prior owner markings text block is tight and square with solid hinges covers are clean corners are straight and unrubbed; a minute abrasion to the paper of the back board where it meets the cloth overall a fine copy. Slipcase also fine overall strong and sturdy the cloth neither sunned nor rubbed the paper label and sides clean and unrubbed; a single shallow mark to one side else fine. Prospectus fine with only original fold publication party invitation fine. The trade edition of the play near fine clean the binding strong with solid hinges free of prior owner markings; a short very shallow mark to the front else fine. The ensemble presents a lovely homage to Beckett and the "most significant English language play of the 20th century" from Wiki per a poll conducted in Britain in 1990.<br/><br/>___CITATION: Arion Press Catalogue no. 77<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Please note that due to size additional postage may apply; please inquire 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. The Arion Press / Grove Press hardcover books
200665447One of 300 Numbered Copies Signed by the Artist ARION PRESS. WILEY William T.artist. Godot. An Imaginary Staging by William T. Wiley of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett San Francisco: The Arion Press 2006. Limited to 300 numbered copies this being number 168. Signed by the artist on the colophon. Folio 15 x 10 inches; 381 x 255 mm. 68 pp. With fifty color illustrations by Wiley in black blue and yellow and two black and while illustrations including a frontispiece portrait and a tailpiece. Publisher's quarter blue cloth over printed pictorial yellow paper boards. Yellow paper spine label lettered in black. Housed in a cloth and paper pictorial slipcase. Mint. With prospectus laid in. "This book is published in 2006 in honor of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Samuel Beckett. It is not the play Waiting for Godot. It is a book about the play: a critic's appreciation a synopsis of the drama and artist's comments and fifty color prints inspired by the play. There are two other prints in black only: a frontispiece portrait of the playwright and an explosive tailpiece." From the Prospectus. HBS 65447. $850 The Arion Press hardcover books
1976CNJL505Hamburg: Raamin-Presse 1976. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Quadflieg Roswtha. No. 91 of 170 copies quarto size 37 pp. signed by Roswtha Quadflieg. Roswtha Quadfleig b. 1949 founded the Raamin-press in 1973 publishing works of literature printed with original graphics in limited editions; she was both the designer of this volume and the artist for the eleven woodcut illustrations. <br/><br/>This story by Samuel Beckett 1906-1989 "The Expelled" deals with rejection following the narrator as he tries to find a new place for himself while presenting his bitterness and anger towards many things in the world; Beckettt was renowned for his writing which often had a bleak tragicomic outlook on human existence; he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Brown laid paper boards with a blind-embossed decoration and the author's name on the front blind-embossed lettering on the spine ivory endpapers sepia woodcuts scattered throughout the text 170 numbered and signed copies per the colophon page this no. 91 signed by Roswtha Quadflieg illustrator and book designer text in German; quarto in size approximately 11.5" tall pagination: 1-35 blank 36 colophon 37. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Fine with a strong square text block solid hinges perfectly straight corners with no rubbing the interior is clean and bright and it is entirely free of prior owner markings - it is clean crisp as new. <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. Raamin-Presse hardcover books
1961D11049Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1961. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Original wraps in glassine dust jacket. Number 13 of 100 copies on Alfa Mouse Navarre paper reserved "au Club de L'Edition." Inscribed by Beckett on the title-p. and dated 1981. Spine lightly creased; faint tape stains half-title page and tissue-guard and recto and verso of p. 177 final page of text preceding colophon. <br/><br/> Les Editions de Minuit paperback books
1980D11054Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1980. First Edition. Paperback. Fine/Near Fine. Wraps in glassine dust jacket. Number 62 from a limited edition of 99 copies. Inscribed by Beckett on the title-page. Book is fine in NF dust jacket with some very light chipping along the edges. <br/><br/> Les Editions de Minuit paperback books
19701908311Les Editions De Minuit 1970. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. First edition. Special paper issued in advance of the trade printing. 8 vo. Original white wrappers all edges uncut. One of 99 numbered copies this being #45 in French. Signed and inscribed by Beckett on the half-title page. Les Editions De Minuit unknown books
1851800541851. LEECH John. A BECKETT Gilbert Abbott. THE COMIC HISTORY OF ROME. Illustrated by John Leech. London: Bradbury Evans and Co. 1851. First edition bound from original parts. Illustrated with 10 full-page hand-colored steel etchings and with smaller wood engravings in text. Octavo. xii308 pp. Full calf skillfully rebacked with decoratively gilt-tooled spine with two green lettering pieces laid-down. Inside dentelles gilt green coated endpapers with bookplate on front pastedown. An attractive copy with only slight darkening of spine and edges of boards. Two leaves have short tears at edges and near the end there is a shallow dampstain at the top edge of some pages which does not affect text or illustrations; otherwise the interior is quite clean. Eight of the nine front wrappers from the original parts issue have been bound-in at the end missing only the cover for number six along with some of the advertisements such as 2 of 4 pp. of "Comic Rome advertiser no. 1 May 1851" and the 16 p. "Guild of Literature and Art. Prospectus of a new endowment" from the first issue and a couple of other slips advertising a new work by Dickens and Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour. However the advertisements are not bound in order. Comic versions of serious subjects with appropriatly humorous illustrations became popular beginning in the 1840s. This work contains lovely and witty illustrations by John Leech one of the most popular artists of his day. Tooley 298: "More rare than the Comic History of England.". unknown books
1869311016London: George Bell & Sons York Street Covent Garden 1869. New edition. Profusely illustrated by Cruikshank. viii 277 1 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Half blue morocco with original covers bound in spine laid down by Root & Son. Cruikshank George. New edition. Profusely illustrated by Cruikshank. viii 277 1 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed "To Chas. Kent Esquire with the best regards of George Cruikshank July 4 1870." opposite engraved title. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden unknown books
1966311748Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1966. First edition #305 of 450 copies. 29 1 pp. 12mo. Original wrappers glassine. Near fine. First edition #305 of 450 copies. 29 1 pp. 12mo. Inscribed. Inscribed on the title page "for William & Roslyn bien amicalement Sam. Beckett". Roslyn Targ 1925-2017 was Beckett's literary agent. Her husband 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. Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books
1966311798Paris: Les éditions de minuit 1966. #68 of 80 copies printed on pur fil Lafuma. 99 5 pp. 12mo. Original French wrappers glassine; unopened. Fine. #68 of 80 copies printed on pur fil Lafuma. 99 5 pp. 12mo. Inscribed. Inscribed on the title page: "for Bill & Roslyn in friendship from 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. Les éditions de minuit unknown books
1975311799Paris: Les éditions de minuit 1975. First edition number 58 of 150 copies. 24 4 pp. 12mo. Original stiff wrappers glassine; unopened. Fine. First edition number 58 of 150 copies. 24 4 pp. 12mo. Inscribed. Inscribed on the title page "for William Targ & Roslyn very cordially Sam. Beckett". 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. Les éditions de minuit unknown books
1969311805Paris: Les éditions de minuit 1969. First edition number 109 of 550 copies of 742 total. 20 4 pp. Small 8vo. Original printed French wrappers. Minor shelf wear near fine. First edition number 109 of 550 copies of 742 total. 20 4 pp. Small 8vo. Inscribed. Inscribed on the title page "for William & Roslyn Targ from Samuel Beckett". 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. Les éditions de minuit unknown books
197227424Dublin: The Dolmen Press 1972. First edition. 23 p. 24 cm. Blind-stamped cloth leather spine slightly rubbed else fine in publisher's slipcase. One of 250 signed by Beckett. English and French on facing pages. <br/><br/> The Dolmen Press hardcover books
196844602Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1968. First edition. 30 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers and glassine a bit tanned along the spine. One of 550 numbered copies of a total edition of 762 on B.F.K. Rives paper. SIGNED by Beckett on the title page. Federman & Fletcher 279. Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books
P4727Prague: DILIA 1964. Octavo 19.6 à 14 cm. Original decorative wrappers; 223 1 pp. A very good copy. The first appearance of any work by Samuel Beckett in Czech was this translation of the absurdist and existentialist play distributed for private use by literary and theatre professionals by DILIA the Czechoslovak literary and theatre agency. Expressly marked "not for sale" "Neprodejný text". This is the first printing second and third runs with variant colored wrappers were published due to large demand but in relatively low numbers given the caveat of the book being a purely internal non-commercial publication. The first regularly distributed edition of Beckett's work had to await the end of the "Normalization" period a period of strict political control which followed the short intermezzo of the liberal Prague Spring of the 1960s and could only be published in 1986. Nevertheless Beckett was quite influential in Communist Czechoslovakia impacting playwrights such as Vaclav Havel. The translator JiÅà KoláŠwas one of the most important post-war artists a pioneer of the collage medium and a key advocate of concrete poetry. KVK OCLC only show the copy at the Czech National Library. unknown books
195729024Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1957. First edition. 77 p. 19 cm. Original wrappers fine unopened. First French edition of All That Fall Beckett's first radio play. One of 80 numbered copies on pur fil including 10 h.c. the entire édition originale. <br/><br/> Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books
