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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
1960WRCLIT71623Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1960. Small octavo. Printed wrappers. About fine unopened. First edition trade issue after 17 copies on alfama including Beckett's parallel translation into colloquial Dublin English of Pinget's radio play prepared for the BBC Third Programme and broadcast in August 1960 starring Jack MacGowran and Patrick Magee. F&F 502. Les Éditions de Minuit unknown 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
196826650Paris: Georges Visat 1968. First edition. Arikha Avigdor 1929-2010. Wrappers in publisher's chemise and slipcase. One of 154 copies on Rives total edition. Illustrated with six colored etchings by Avigdor Arikha each signed. Fine. "The colored etchings for L'Issue reveal the subtle and intuitive feeling with which Arikha approaches Beckett's work" Mitchell Beyond Illustration: The Livre d'Artist in the Twentieth Century 53; "The etchings and aquatints in this volume are in Arikha's earlier abstract style. Dark and moody in feeling they are reminiscent of Abstract Expressionism and visually convey the somber outlook of Beckett's literary vision" Johnson Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870-2000 160. <br/><br/> Georges Visat unknown books
195328110Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1953. First edition ordinary paper copy one of 3000 printed. Original wrappers covers spotted text paper browned as always unopened. The third novel of Beckett's trilogy. Inscribed "for Austryn Wainhouse / cordially / Sam Beckett / Paris July 1953". A good association. Wainhouse had worked for Olympia Press and was one of the editors of Merlin publishers of Beckett's "Watt". He was best-known as a translator of Sade Bataille de Beauvoir etc and won a National Book Award for translation in 1971. <br/><br/> Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books
1969274431969. 26 cm; periodical illustrated. Wrappers very good. Includes texts of Beckett's "La Derniere bande" Pinget's "Lettre morte" and "Une demande en mariage" by Simone Dubreuilh. <br/><br/> unknown books
19598597ELondon: Faber 1959. First Edition. Two short dramatic works. Paperbound. Near fine. Faber unknown books
196017431London: Faber & Faber 1960. 2nd impression. Green printed wrappers. VG age toning & light edgewear. 36 pp. 8" x 4 3/4" <br/><br/> Faber & Faber unknown books
19601308246Grove Press New York 1960. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Very good in wrappers. First Evergreen Edition 1960 stated on the copyright page. Original price of $1.95 printed on back cover. Grove Press, New York unknown books
197769083Philadelphia: Journal of Modern Literature 1977. Volume Six Number One. 168 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover image of Beckett by Jack Coughlin. Eleven essays on the master. Philadelphia: Journal of Modern Literature, unknown books
199030984Cleveland: Burning Press 1990. First edition. 20 pp. Near fine in embossed wrappers with some light fading along spine. Cleveland: Burning Press unknown books
1883516851883. Duffy Sir. Frank Gavan; Thomas Turner A Beckett. Introduction and Notes to the Transfer of Land Statute by Thomas A'Beckett. Second Edition with Amending Acts and Additional Notes and Forms by Frank Gavan Duffy. Melbourne: Charles F. Maxwell 1883. xiii 1 l. 311 pp. Ex-library. Mild wear to cover corners bumped hinges cracked. Some pencilled underlining and notes. Mild foxing. A good copy. $350. No copies found in OCLC. unknown books
1969WRCLIT71691Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag 1969. Oblong quarto. Wallet style pictorial boards with fold-in flaps. Photographs. Fine but wanting the plain mailing wrapper. First edition in this format first printing illustrated with a stunning array of production and stage photographs by Rosemarie Clausen beautifully reproduced. The production was directed by Beckett himself and the definitive German text based on that production accompanies the photographs. Suhrkamp Verlag hardcover books
1965311743Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1965. FIRST EDITION LIMITED ISSUE number 195 of 450 copies on Rives from an edition of 612 there were 50 hors commerce and 112 reserved for the publisher. 18 1 pp. Original white printed wrappers glassine; unopened. Fine. FIRST EDITION LIMITED ISSUE number 195 of 450 copies on Rives from an edition of 612 there were 50 hors commerce and 112 reserved for the publisher. 18 1 pp. Inscribed. Inscribed on the title-page "for William & Roslyn Targ with all good wishes 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
1965402328Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1965. 8vo. 18 1 pp. Original white printed wrappers entirely unopened. Slightest soiling to wrappers near-fine. FIRST EDITION LIMITED ISSUE number 52 of 450 copies on Rives from an edition of 612 there were 50 hors commerce and 112 reserved for the publisher. <br/><br/> Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books
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. ONE OF 100 SIGNED COPIES ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED. 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 books
20158779Dublin: The Salvage Press 2015. Limited Edition. Fine in Fine Archival Case. Bright and unmarred. Black cloth drop spine box loose fo sheets. fo. np. Illus. b/w plates. Numbered limited edition. Signed by the artists. <br/><br/>"No trace anywhere of life you say pah no difficulty there imagination not dead yet yes dead good imagination dead imagine. So begins Beckett’s ‘Imagination Dead Imagine’ a short prose text first published in French in Les Lettres nouvelles in 1965. Its first English publication was in The Sunday Times that same year. <br />"This new edition of loose sheets celebrates the 50th anniversary of the original publishing in 1965. The project is a collaboration between typographic designer Jamie Murphy & visual artist David O’Kane. The work is introduced with an essay by renowned Beckett scholar Stanley E Gontarski. <br />The text has been hand-set & letterpress printed by Jamie Murphy in 18 point Caslon Old Face supported by a newly drawn ten line grotesque typeface by Bobby Tannam cut from maple by Tom Mayo. David O’Kane has supplied two lithographs inspired by the text editioned by Thomas Franke at Stein Werk Lithography studio in Leipzig. The sheets are printed on 250gsm French made Velin Cuve BFK Rives mould-made. The edition is limited to 50 copies 40 of which make up the standard format ten accounting for the de luxe. The bindings were executed by Tom Duffy in Dublin. The standard is housed in a cloth covered portfolio protected inside a slipcase. The deluxe is presented in a clam-shell box accompanied by a typographic triptych based on the text. The standard copies are numbered 11 – 50 the deluxe are numbered 1 – 10. Each copy has been signed by the collaborators. The Salvage Press hardcover books
1965240801London: Calder & Boyars 1965. First. hardcover. fine. 14pp. small 8vo gray cloth; cloth slipcase. London: Calder & Boyars 1965. Limited First Edition.<br/><br/> No. 17 of 100 copies on hand-made paper signed by the author and printed hors commerce in advance of the first edition.<br/><br/> Calder & Boyars unknown books
Embry 172596N.p. Nd. Near fine to fine. Printed version of copy done in calligraphy blue cloth-backed patterned boards. First page reads "Published in The New Yorker 5th October 1981." N.p., N,d. hardcover books
198130231New York: Grove Press 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Good /very good . 8vo. Stated first hardcover edition. 59 pp. A later prose work by the author of Waiting For Godot. Remainder mark to lower edge. Some staining to the front blank endpaper. A good to very good copy in handsome unclipped dustwrapper. Grove Press hardcover books
198139760New York: Grove Press 1981. First American Edition. First Printing cloth issue. Octavo; black paper and white cloth-covered boards with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 595pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket unclipped priced $8.95 with sunning to the pink spine lettering. Attractive copy of Beckett's short novel first published in French under the title Mal Vu Mal Dit in 1981. Grove Press unknown books
19821804108Lord John Press 1982. Special Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Fine presentation copy one of only 299 specially bound numbered copies and twenty-six lettered copies. Signed by the author on half-title. Housed in custom-made case. Lord John Press hardcover books
19821611030Lord John Press 1982. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 299 signed limited copies signed by Samuel Beckett but this one is unnumbered. Fine condition. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Lord John Press hardcover books
1982WRCLIT76931Northridge: Lord John Press 1982. Quarter publisher's calf and marbled boards. Spine very slightly sunned otherwise fine. First limited printing. One of 299 numbered copies of 325 printed at the Bird & Bull Press and signed by the author on the half- title. Lord John Press hardcover books
198215101JNorthridge: Lord John Press 1982. First Edition Thus. Of an edition of 325 copies signed by the author Samuel Beckett this is a special copy with “This is a Presentation Copy†printed on the colophon page and is signed by Samuel Beckett. This copy was presented to author John D. MacDonald and has a Typed Letter Signed from Lord John Press publisher Herb Yellin sending MacDonald the book. Finely printed on mouldmade Bugrabutten paper at the Bird & Bull Press in gilt-stamped leather and printed blue boards. A very handsome production. Fine without dust jacket as issued. Lord John Press hardcover books
