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198022778New York: Grove Press 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo. Stated first printing. 63 pp prose piece by the author of All That Fall and End Game. A very good hardbound book with faint pink remainder mark to top edge in very good price-intact dustwrapper. <br/><br/> Grove Press hardcover books
1980311801Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1980. First trade edition. 87 5 pp. 8vo. Original white printed wrappers. A few marks to covers faint shelfwear. First trade edition. 87 5 pp. 8vo. Inscribed on the title page to Bill and Roslyn Targ. 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
1980402327Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1980. 8vo. 87 5 pp. Original white printed wrappers entirely unopened; original glassine. Front panel of glassine with tear at head otherwise fine. FIRST EDITION LIMITED ISSUE number 87 of 99 copies from an edition of 106 there were 7 hors commerce on Alfamousse publisher's numbered limitation ticket. <br/><br/> Les Éditions de Minuit unknown 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
198024490Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1980. First edition. 87 p. 19 cm. Original wrappers. Translated from the English by the author. Number 96 of 106 copies. Very fine. <br/><br/> Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books
1980WRCLIT54211Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1980. Printed wrappers. First edition ordinary issue. Pencil name on endsheet else near fine. Les Éditions de Minuit unknown 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
1961WRCLIT71568Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1961. Printed wrappers. Fine unopened in slightly tanned and smudged glassine. First edition limited issue. Copy #24 of 80 numbered copies and 7 h.c. on Alfa Mousse Navarre in addition to 110 copies reserved for La Librairie des Éditions Minuit. F&F 268. Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books
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
185194242London: Bradbury Agnew and Co. Ld 1851. leather edges gilt five raised bands gilt lettering on spine. Guild of Women-Binders. 8vo. leather edges gilt five raised bands gilt lettering on spine. iv xii 308 pages. First edition Tooley 298. Not in Field. Illustrated by John Leech with 10 full-colored etchings and 98 woodcut vignettes. John Leech was a staff artist for "Punch" from its early issues in 1841. Gilbert Abbott à Beckett was one of the original staff members for "Punch." One of the Victorian era's best-known comedies. This particular copy is bound in full Chocolate Crushed Morocco both covers blind ruled with five raised bands. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Title in gilt lettering on the spine between the first and second band from the top. Guild of Women-Binders ticket in gilt on the lower leather turnin on the front pastedown. Two faint scratches on the front cover. Spine lightly sunned. Leather offsetting onto free endpapers. Moderate foxing on preliminary pages with a majority of the text and colored plates being uneffected. Title page has small chip in top right corner. The binding while austere but as one would expect from the Guild of Women-Binders it is well executed. Bradbury, Agnew and Co. Ld 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
1835127369London England: Chatto and Windus 1835. half leather marbled paper-covered boards marbled endpapers. 12mo. half leather marbled paper-covered boards marbled endpapers. viii 160; ii 161-388; viii 184; ii 185-428 pages. 4 Volumes. First volume with prefatory remarks. Illustrations by George Cruikshank Cohn 184 and other illustrators. In a signed binding by W. Roach from NY. An assortment of humorous matter. Each volume with frontispiece a foldout in the third volume. Black and white plates and illustrations in text throughout. According to Cohn this is a complete run. Covers rubbed and scuffed at edges and along spine. Chatto and Windus unknown books
187135802London: John Camden Hotten 1871. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. London: John Camden Hotten 1871. 2 vols. Fold-out frontispiece and many illustrations including several fold-outs. Hardcover. 8vo. Professionally rebacked original gilt-stamped cloth boards. New end leaves. Volume I First Series 1835 - 1843. 388 pp. 32 pp. adverts dated 1871. Frontispiece and many illustrations. Volume II Second Series 1844 - 1853. 428 pp. 32 pp. adverts dated 1871. Corners bumped light rubbing to heel edge; light foxing to frontis title and half-title in volume II. Penultimate leaf of ads in volume two has a 1" tear. Overall quite good. Very good/No jacket issued. Multiple volumes - extra shipping charges apply Insurance required to ship this item. John Camden Hotten hardcover books
1964WRCLIT23496Paris 1964. Printed wrappers. First printing of Beckett's own translation into French of "Play." Corner crease and a few stray marks to front wrapper very good. F&F 150. unknown books
1970311704Paris 1970. In French. A few pencil annotations in an unknown hand clarifying words in text. 3 x 5 to 4 x 5.5 inches; letter 4to. Old folds to letter. In French. A few pencil annotations in an unknown hand clarifying words in text. 3 x 5 to 4 x 5.5 inches; letter 4to. To Jean Demélier. A group of brief responses to his friend the French writer Jean Demélier b.1940 thanking him for his letters mentioning travel plans arranging meetings etc. In the note dated 5-11-70 Beckett punningly congratulates Demélier on his soon to be published first novel Le Rêve de Job Gallimard 1971: "Bon Job bonne patience." Two of the items refer to his opthamologist and the cataract surgery he would undergo in the fall of 1970. unknown books
197038997New York NY: Grove Press Inc 1970. FIRST THUS. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. New York NY: Grove Press Inc 1970. FIRST THUS. 179 pp. Hardcover. Small 8vo size. Navy blue cloth. Silver lettering to spine and front board. Heel bumped; top edge stained; else a nice copy in like dustjacket. Very good/Very good. Grove Press Inc hardcover books
197039403New York: Grove Press Inc. 1970. FIRST THUS. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Happy Days. New York: Grove Press Inc. 1970. First edition. 64 pp. Hardcover. 8vo size. Navy blue cloth. Silver lettering to spine and front board. Cover clean slightly rubbed at heel of spine; d.j. slightly age darkened at edges curled at top; edges end papers and pages crisp clean and unmarked; binding firm. Very good/Very good. Grove Press, Inc. hardcover books
196938770New York NY: Grove Press Inc 1969. First thus. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Complete Scenario Illustrations Production Shots. New York NY: Grove Press Inc 1969. First thus. Numerous b/w photographs and illustrations. 94 pp. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Navy blue cloth. Gilt lettering. Front joint slightly worn; top edge slightly foxed; rear free endpaper slightly worn at fore edge; interior tight bright and clean. Dust jacket is nice and clean. Very good/Very good. Oversized - extra shipping charges apply Grove Press Inc hardcover books
201222478London: Faber 2012. Reprint. Paperback. Fine. Thick trade paperbound format. Edited by Sean Lawlor and John Pilling. 499 pp. A fine copy in bound wrappers with French flaps. Heavy volume. <br/><br/> Faber paperback books
1982124713London England: Annely Juda Fine Art 1982. Softcover. VG. White illus. wraps; 119 pp.; Profusely illustrated in color and bw. Accompanied a 1982 exhibition at Annely Juda Fine Art; Includes essays by Jane Beckett and Andrei Nakov and works by Karol Hiller Jean Arp Michel Andreenko Naum Gabo Kurt Schwitters and others. Essay by Andrei Nakov. Held 30 June-2 October 1982. Annely Juda Fine Art unknown books
2015UBECCLE00jknHaus Pub. 2015. Fine. Beckett Francis. Clem Attlee: Labour's Greatest Reformer. London: Haus Pub. 2015. 490pp. Indexed. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Fine. Haus Pub. paperback books
197826647Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1978. First edition. 25 p. 18 cm.; Wrappers fine. Copy 100 of 100 on vélin. Translation of "That Time" by the author. <br/><br/> Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books
199128189Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1991. First edition. 61 p. 19 cm. Wrappers fine. One of 109 copies on vergé tirage de tête. First French language edition of "Worstward Ho" <br/><br/> Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books
57361Hamilton: The Beckett Paper Company n.d. stiff paper wrappers. Paper Specimens. large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Various printed examples of the four items constituting the Buckeye Text line are found in this advertisement. The printed specimens are examples of the kinds of work printers most likely will be asked to do. The Beckett Paper Company unknown books
1980BL2653Newton Abbot:: David & Charles nd circa 1980. 1980. 8vo. 222 pp. Illus. index. Gilt-stamped brown cloth dust jacket. Burndy bookplate. Near Fine. ISBN: 0715319739 David & Charles, [nd, circa 1980]. hardcover books