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1966552338London: Faber and Faber 1966. Softcover. Fine. First edition. 31pp. Stapled wrappers. Fine. A complete list of poetry and plays arranged under author or editor of poetry and plays Faber paper covered editions Ariel poems Sesame books and an index of titles. Scarce OCLC locates no copies. Faber and Faber unknown
195832824New York: Zero Press 1958. First edition. Cloth jacket spine slightly faded else fine with wraparound band. Zero Press 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
1986499543London / New York: John Calder/ Riverrun Press 1986. Hardcover. Fine. First edition deluxe issue. Octavo. 135pp. Quarter tan calf gilt and maroon cloth boards. Illustrated including photographs by John Minihan of Beckett. Top edge and fore-edge gilt. Fine in near fine publisher's unprinted glassine dust jacket with a little chipping and a fine publisher's slipcase box. Prints for the first time Samuel Beckett's radio script for The Capital of the Ruins about Beckett's experiences in the Irish Red Cross from August 1945 to January 1946 on the Normandy coast in the town of St. Lo. The script was originally read by Samuel Beckett on June 10 1946 on Radio Erin and includes birthday tributes by Richard Ellman Billie Whitelaw David Warrilow Eoin O'Brien Barry McGovern Barney Rosset John Fletcher and others. Specially bound and limited to 50 numbered copies as follows: copies number 1-5 went to Beckett 6-28 went to contributors 29-49 to Bertram Rota and No. 50 to the publisher. This is copy number 7 thus a contributor's copy. John Calder/ Riverrun Press hardcover
1986514188London / New York: John Calder / Riverrun Press 1986. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. 135pp. Illustrated by John Minihan. A few tiny spots on the endpapers else fine in an about fine dust jacket with a touch of foxing to the tops of flaps. Prints for the first time Beckett's radio script for "The Capital of the Ruins'' about his experiences in the Irish Red Cross on the Normandy coast from August 1945 to January 1946 which was originally read by Beckett on Radio Erin on June 10 1946. Additional contributions by John Calder Martin Esslin James Knowlson Aldo Tagliaferri Enoch Brater Colin Duckworth Richard Ellman Charles Monteith Siegfried Unseld and more. John Calder / Riverrun Press hardcover
1986510754London / New York: John Calder / Riverrun Press 1986. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First British edition. 135pp. Illustrated by John Minihan. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Prints for the first time Beckett's radio script for "The Capital of the Ruins'' about his experiences in the Irish Red Cross on the Normandy coast from August 1945 to January 1946 which was originally read by Beckett on Radio Erin on June 10 1946. Additional contributions by John Calder Martin Esslin James Knowlson Aldo Tagliaferri Enoch Brater Colin Duckworth Richard Ellman Charles Monteith Siegfried Unseld and more. John Calder / Riverrun Press hardcover
196021723London: Privately Printed by the Shenval Press 1960. One of 70 copies "printed and distributed for the friends of T. E. Hanley". 1 vols. 8vo. Original plain wrappers with printed jacket. Some light soiling else fine. One of 70 copies "printed and distributed for the friends of T. E. Hanley" 1 vols. 8vo. Tindall was a Professor of English at Columbia at the time of this publication on Beckett's "semblables". Carlton Lake "The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin" New Series No. 28 p. 64. Carlton Lake "The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin" New Series No. 28 p. 64 <br/><br/> Privately Printed [by the Shenval Press] unknown
1979549222London: Demarco Gallery Theatre 1979. Unbound. Fine. Photographically illustrated in brown on pale brown paper with small map of directions to the theatre. Approximately 8†x 12â€. Old folds else fine. Demarco Gallery Theatre unknown
1959619707New York: Grove Press 1959. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First editions. Small octavo. 160 185 256 256pp. Publisher's red cloth with gilt spine letter consisting of four issues bound in one volume with index and orignal wrappers at the rear. Abstract discoloration to the spine and boards mostly the rear boardssee photo else near fine with some bumped at the spine ends. The four issues contain "Krapp's Last Tape" by Samuel Beckett and "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose" and " Belief and Technique for Modern Prose" by Jack Kerouac. Additional contributions by Robert Creeley Denise Levertov Charles Olson Kenneth Koch Frank O'Hara Gary Snyder Federico García Lorca Octavio Paz Carlos Fuentes Juan José Arreola E.E. Cummings Robert Lowell Gregory Corso Allen Ginsberg James Merrill John Ashbery and many more. Grove Press hardcover
1959518902New York: Evergreen Review 1959. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 224pp. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrated. Light wear at extremities of spine and front cover faint crease on front cover else a bright very good or better copy. Inscribed by Beckett on pge 21 at his contribution: "The publication of author's English translation of 'texte pour rien' best wishes from Sam. 1960". An unusually long inscription from Beckett whose inscriptions are usually terse. Contains Beckett's Text for Nothing I F&F 378. Additional contributions by Henry Miller Frank O'Hara Denise Levertov Gary Snyder et al. Evergreen Review unknown
1992511076The Hague: Samuel Beckett Festival 1992. Unbound. Fine. Five programs or announcements. Slim octavos. One single sheet; two sheets folded to make four pages each; and two folio sheets folded down. Text mostly in Dutch with a few snippets in English. Fine. A handsome little collection of material from the festival: "For eleven days The Hague will be a Samuel Beckett city. More than 70 Dutch and foreign theatre productions will show work by about and inspired by Samuel Beckett. Apart from drama there will be visual arts dance music film and video. Samuel Beckett Festival unknown
1958333192New York City 1958. 5.5" x 4.25. Fine. 5.5" x 4.25" Samuel Beckett's Endgame is considered one of his greatest plays that was first performed Arpil 3rd 1957 at the Royal Court Theatre in London and in French. The play was originally written in French before Beckett translated it to English and although it was written before Waiting for Godot it premiered afterward and benefitted from the success of the latter. <br /> <br /> This handbill is for the American premire of the play at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City in a series of dates during January 1958. This iteration was directed by Alan Schneider and designed by David Hays and starred Alvin Epstein Lester Rawlins P.J. Kelly and Nydia Westman. unknown
1965379547Consett County Durham: Ramsden Williams Publications 1965. Softcover. Near Fine. Magazine. Cover by Elizabeth Mew. Small quarto. 24pp. Stapled stiff glossy wraps. Wear along the spine bumping at the spine end and some light rubbing to the rear wrap about near fine. A literary journal published by Durham University with the first appearance of Samuel Beckett's "Jem Higgins' Love-Letter to the Alba" an excerpt from his first novel Dream of Fair to Middling Women published posthumously in 1992. Federman and Fletcher 43. With additional contributions from Christopher Ramsden John Fletcher Jon Silkin Ken Smith W. Price Turner J. Roger Little and Peter Jackson. Seven copies in OCLC. Ramsden Williams Publications 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
1985545577Poland: No publisher 1985. Unbound. Very Good. Poster. Designed by Roslaw Szaybo. Measuring 22¾" x 32¾". Rolled modest foxing and a tiny hole in the bottom margin very good. No publisher] unknown
1971598307London: Turret Books 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First trade edition. Foreword by A.J. Leventhal. Page edges slightly foxed rear board with a small white mark and indentation still near fine in a slightly rubbed very good dust jacket with a few small marks on the front panel light foxing and edgewear. Reproduces a few pages of Beckett manuscripts in holograph facsimile prints portraits of Beckett describes unpublished texts and more. Turret Books hardcover
1971276889London: Turret Books 1971. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy. Reproduces a few pages of Beckett manuscripts in holograph facsimile prints portraits of Beckett describes unpublished texts and more. Turret Books hardcover
198627454Dublin: Black Cat Press in association with Faber and Faber London. with Rier Run Press stamped over 1986. First edition. xxvi 2 402 p. Eoin O'Brien ; photography David H. Davison ; foreword James Knowlson ; illustrations Robert Ballagh. ill. ; 27 cm. Cloth fine in slightly faded dust jacket. Black Cat Press in association with Faber and Faber, London. with Rier Run Press stamped over unknown
1954589047Paris: Merlin 1954. Softcover. Very Good. Vol. 2 No. 3. Illustrations by Stanley William Hayter. Tall octavo. Text in English. Printed wrappers. Moderate general wear including several creased page corners and a light vertical spine crease lower wrap with tanning and soil sound and near very good. Contains the first appearance of Samuel Beckett's short story "The End" as well as contributions by Italo Svevo Eugene Ionesco Patrick Bowles and others. F&F 372. Merlin unknown
1954518470Paris: Merlin 1954. Softcover. Very Good. Vol. 2 No. 3. Illustrations by Stanley William Hayter. Tall octavo. Text in English. Printed wrappers. Modest general wear a tiny chip at the spine base and lower wrap with a bit of tanning and a short foredge tear bright and very good or better. Contains the first appearance of Samuel Beckett's short story "The End" as well as contributions by Italo Svevo Eugene Ionesco Patrick Bowles and others. F&F 372. Merlin unknown
1931534325New York: Brewer Warren & Putnam 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Edited by Samuel Putnam Maida Castelhun Darnton George Reavey and J. Bronowski. Introductions by André Berge Massimo Bontempelli Jean Cassou and E. Giménez Cabellero. Some faint staining on the boards a well-used near very good copy lacking the dust jacket. Owner stamp of Anais Nin and Ian Hugo on front fly. Nin has plentifully annotated the book in pencil on the first 60 pages and then intermittently after that as well as made notes on the endpapers.<br /> <br /> Contains the first book appearance of Samuel Beckett in the United States. Additional contributors include W.H. Auden H.D. T.S. Eliot Dorothy Richardson William Empson Nancy Cunard Hugh MacDiarmid Tristan Tzara Francis Picabia Jean Cocteau Robert Desnos Blaise Cendrars and others. Stated as Part I this was the only volume published. An interesting copy of an important anthology. Brewer, Warren & Putnam hardcover
1932518332The Hague Holland: The Servire Press 1932. Softcover. Good. First edition. Large octavo. 325 ads pp. Pictorial wrappers with cover art by Hans Arp. Illustrated reproducing work by Hans Arp and Giacometti. Spine is evenly browned with moderate chipping at tips of spine lacking rear wrapper title page is foxed with light foxing to a few leaves else a near very good copy. Contains the first appearance of Samuel Beckett's "Sedendo et Quiesciendo" F&F 12 also contains a section devoted to James Joyce entitled "Homage to James Joyce" printing original contributions by Joyce S&C C82 and C83 and reproducing a manuscript page from "Work in Progress." Other contributions by Gertrude Stein Wilson C93 H. L. Mencken Kay Boyle Franz Kafka et al. The Servire Press unknown
1929518487Paris: Transition 1929. Softcover. Very Good. Number 16-17 double issue. Cover by Powel. Octavo. 328pp. Illustrated with plates reproducing artwork by Picasso Braque B. Abbott Joseph Stella and others. Interior tanned less so than usual lower wrap with a creased corner and top corners just a bit bumped spine with some spotting a tears at the spine ends and some loss at the foot affecting the printed date a very good copy of a relatively delicate magazine produced with cheap materials. Prints "Assumption" Samuel Beckett's first published short story as well as "Dante. Bruno. Vico. Joyce" Federman and Fletcher 2 and 1.01 respectively; they describe "Assumption" as "pregnant with future Beckettian themes". Also prints work by Gertrude Stein Harry Crosby Erskine Caldwell Brancusi G. Braque and Hart Crane "Proclamation" signed in type by Crane Kay Boyle Caresse & Harry Crosby and a number of other authors. Transition unknown
1956557860New York: The Zero Press 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 239pp. Some fraying on bottom edges of cloth boards very good in a very good lightly age-toned dust jacket with short chips on bottom edges one-inch tear mid-spine with publisher's pink wrap-around band printed in black states: "Special in this edition: Colin Wilson/ a new article from the author of 'The Outsider'/ also/ The Hours After Noon/ a nouvella-length story by Paul Bowles". Contains the first book appearance of Paul Bowles' novella-length story "The Hours After Noon" and two other contributions by Paul Bowles Miller B24. Also contains Samuel Beckett's short story "The Smeraldina's Billet Doux" F&F 16.01 and contributions by Gore Vidal Marianne Moore Colin Wilson and many others. Uncommon with the publisher's wrap-around band. The Zero Press hardcover
1956582142New York: The Zero Press 1956. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 239pp. Fine in spine-tanned very good dust jacket with modest general wear and soil and a nice example of the wraparound band that is tanned at the spine and folds. Contains the first book appearance of Paul Bowles' novella-length story "The Hours After Noon" Samuel Beckett's short story "The Smeraldina's Billet Doux" and contributions by Gore Vidal Marianne Moore Colin Wilson and others. A presentable copy. Miller B24; F&F 16.01. The Zero Press hardcover
