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19821607210Lord John Press 1982. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Publisher's copy. Inscribed to the publisher Herb Yellin by Beckett on the half-title page. Book in fine condition. There were published: 299 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies specially bound all signed by the author. Housed in a custom-made slipcase. Lord John Press hardcover books
198212432Northridge CA: Lord John Press 1982. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The 1982 1st thus #154 OF 299 COPIES SIGNED BY SAMUEL BECKETT at the half-title. A pristine copy to boot. Tight and Fine in its lovely marbled boards with bright gilt-rule and lettering at the panels and spine respectively. Also includes a Fine example of the publisher's mylar dustjacket. Octavo handsomely designed and printed by Henry Morris for the Lord John Press of Northridge CA. <br/><br/> Lord John Press hardcover books
19761604063U.S.A.: Grove Press 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First Printing as stated on copyright page. Fine book light wear previous owners writing on front free end paper and tape on front and back paste-down. Near fine dust jacket minor wear and tape on edge of front and back inner flaps. U.S.A.: Grove Press hardcover books
1976WRCLIT54617New York: Grove Press 1976. 621pp. Cloth. First edition of this selection edited by Richard Seaver. Includes the first American book publication of "That Time." Fine in very good lightly sunned dust jacket. Grove Press hardcover books
1964406014London: John Calder 1964. A superb unopened copy. 8vo. 160 pages. Original vellum gilt-lettered and -ruled on spine top edges gilt others untrimmed entirely uncut and unopened; publisher's plain ivory paper-covered board slipcase. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH DELUXE LIMITED ISSUE number 78 of 100 copies on hand-made paper "series A" bound in vellum another series of 100 copies was issued in tan morocco. Translated from the French by Beckett. first published in French as 'Comment c'est' in 1961 by Les Editions de Minuit. Federman & Fletcher 384.2. A wonderful copy. <br/><br/> John Calder hardcover books
1964WRCLIT71560London: John Calder 1964. Large octavo. Publisher's tan morocco lettered in gilt t.e.g. others untrimmed. Minute fleck of darkening on spine otherwise fine in a very good publisher's slipcase with small label ghost on one panel. First edition limited issue of Beckett's translation of COMMENT C'EST. Copy #51 of one hundred numbered copies in series 'B' hors commerce specially bound from a total of two hundred copies specially printed on handmade paper and signed by the author. F&F 384.1. John Calder unknown books
1949137806London: Theodore Brun ; Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd 1949. First De Luxe edition limited to 100 # 40. Hardbound. Good: Text pages lightly and uniformly toned all pages clean cover gutter partially split is somewhat loose but still well attached at upper hinge. Front cover has some nicks along top fore edge. Full read leather with gilt cover ornamentation and spine titles. 80 pp. plus 202 black and white plates. Marbled endpapers. Theodore Brun ; Routledge & Kegan Paul, Ltd hardcover books
196133071NY: Grove Press 1961. First Edition in English preceeds the UK edition. 12mo. pp. 68. Rear cover slightly soiled o/w a fine copy. A paperback original. Grove Press unknown books
196167323NY: Grove Press 1961. First edition. 64 pp. Two small creases to one corner of the front cover else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Federman & Fletcher 39. NY: Grove Press unknown books
196260797London:: Faber and Faber. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1962. Hardcover. First British edition. Near fine in a near fine light edge wear at the spine ends and one corner dust jacket. An attractive well preserved copy.; 48 pages . Faber and Faber, hardcover books
1962428London: Royal Court Theatre 1962. Wrappers. Near fine. Program for the London debut Nov. 1 1962. 8vo. 20 pages. Stapled wrappers. Fine with the gold "First Night" sticker on the front. Inscribed on the cover in ink to the Director of Publicity at New Directions "For Edwin Erbe cordially Samuel Beckett Nov. 1962." Rare signed maybe the only one that's signed and inscribed. An immensely great play but also an immensely strange one so it exasperatingly angers those obsessed with knowing what it means. "It's a most unusual play Feel like throwing my tickets away." -Allan Sherman. Royal Court Theatre unknown books
185351924Portland ME: Sanborn & Carter 1853. First edition. 12mo. 180 pp. Wood engravings plates extra engraved title page folding map. Original gilt-stamped green cloth faded spine ends chipped. Very good. <br/><br/> Sanborn & Carter hardcover books
185334293Portland Maine: Sanborn & Carter and H. J. Little & Co 1853. First edition. Engraved plates and illustrations by Baker Smith & Andrew after original sketched by C. E. Beckett illustrated title reading "Portland White-Mountains & Montreal Rail-Road Guide" with Foster Gerrish & Co Printers 1858 folding map at back. 180 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red cloth stamped in blind lettered in gilt on upper cover. Some rubbing of extremities page 67 and adjoining leaves with stain near gutter not affecting legibility else a very good copy. First edition. Engraved plates and illustrations by Baker Smith & Andrew after original sketched by C. E. Beckett illustrated title reading "Portland White-Mountains & Montreal Rail-Road Guide" with Foster Gerrish & Co Printers 1858 folding map at back. 180 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Sabin 4247; Cobb #207; Bent p.5 Sanborn & Carter and H. J. Little & Co unknown books
198138704London:: Croom Helm. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 0709906218 . First edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Croom Helm, hardcover books
1969BL2804London:: Paul Hamlyn 1969. 1969. 8vo. 191 pp. Frontis. illus. index. Gilt-stamped black buckram dust jacket. Burndy bookplate. Fine. Paul Hamlyn, (1969). hardcover 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
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
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
2009UBECGEN00LAWHoughton Mifflin Harcourt 2009. Very Good. Beckett Bernard. Genesis. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009. 150pp. 12mo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with gently bumped corners and small smudge on lower corner of front cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. In dust jacket protector. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt hardcover books
195858231London: Faber and Faber 1958. First edition. 22 pp. Fine in stiff wrappers and near fine integral dust jacket that is lightly toned along the spine and has two short tears to the top edge of the rear cover. London: Faber and Faber unknown books
19581436London: Faber and Faber 1958. First Edition Thus. 8vo 8 1/2 / 215 mm tall 22 pages in sewn decorated wrappers. Light sunning to edges. A Near Fine copy.A fragment of an unfinished novel written ca.1955 featuring the musings of a neurotic man. Beckett told his bibliographers that the fragment resulted from an attempt to return to fiction in English. "Asked why it ends abruptly he replied 'there was just no more to be said.'" Raymond Federman and John Fletcher Samuel Beckett: His Works & His Critics An Essay in Bibliography 1970.Our copy is the first appearance of "From an Abandoned Work" in book form. Trinity News the student newspaper at the University of Dublin Beckett's alma mater first published the fragment in 1956. That was followed by a reprint in the Evergreen Review and a broadcast by the BBC in 1957. Federman and Fletcher 33. <br /><br /> Faber and Faber books
1958WRCLIT71835London: Faber and Faber 1958. Pictorial wrapper over stiff wrappers. First edition in book form. Hint of sunning otherwise about fine. F&F 33.2. Faber and Faber unknown books
195826640London: Faber and Faber 1958. First edition. Wrappers light wear. Name on endpaper. <br/><br/> Faber and Faber unknown books
195814254London: Faber and Faber 1958. Decorated wrappers fine. First edition. <br/><br/> Faber and Faber unknown books
