Paris: Shakespeare & Co., 1929. First edition. Collection of critical essays and two letters on James Joyce's FINNEGANS WAKE. Includes Beckett's first book appearance, "Dante. Bruno. Vico..Joyce"; William Carlos Williams' "A Point for American Criticism," as well as Stuart Gilbert, Robert McAlmon, Elliot Paul, et al, and one "Letter of..... Item #72384 More
New York: Grove Press, (1957). First edition. Special holiday edition of this one-act radio play. Small 8vo white paperwraps printed in green with Christmas tree decorations and "With Best Wishes for the Holiday Season/ from/ Grove Press" on front (spine and rear cover unprinted); 59 pages. Fine. Item #72669 More
New York: Grove Press, (1957). First edition. Number 73 of 100 specially bound hardcover copies. Small 8vo flecked gray paper boards over brown cloth over gilt-stamped brown cloth; 59 pages. Very good or better with slight toning to board edges and small fore edge stain encroaching very slightly on few..... Item #72683 More
London: Calder and Boyars, (1967). First edition in English, limited issue. Number 93 of only 100 numbered copies SIGNED BY BECKETT. (Note: limitation unstated and not in Federman & Fletcher). Illustrated with photographs by Ilse Buhs from the January 1966 production at the Schiller Theater in Berlin. Small 8vo buckram..... Item #72371 More
(Paris): Les Editions de Minuit, 1961. First edition. French-language novel published in English as HOW IT IS (Grove: 1964). NUMBER 63 OF 80 DELUXE COPIES printed on Alfa Mousse Navarre (from a total of 197) [Federman & Fletcher 268]. 12mo white paperwraps printed in black and blue; "Edition Originale" at..... Item #72397 More
New York: Grove Press, (1980 - 1983). First U.S. edition of each of the three separately published novellas forming the trilogy later collected as NOHOW ON, of which Bob Halliday wrote in The Washington Post, "Read in its proper context as the most intense statement yet of its author s...... Item #72700 More
London: John Calder, (1980). First UK edition. First novella in the trilogy later collected as NOHOW ON. "Another look at the human condition but in terms of companionship with lyric outbursts of great intensity" (jacket back panel). 8vo silver-stamped black imitation cloth boards; 89 pages. Fine in fine dust jacket..... Item #72699 More
New York: Grove Press, (1995). First edition. Edited and with an introduction and notes by S. E. Gontarski. Barest shelfwear otherwise fine in fine dust jacket. Scarce. Item #72655 More
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Dublin: Black Cat Press, 1992. First edition. His first novel, written in 1932. Beckett set it aside after it was turned down by several publishers, stipulating it not be published until after his death. Edited by Eoin O'Brien and Edith Fournier, with an introduction by O'Brien. Number 27 of 130..... Item #72393 More
(Paris): Editions de Minuit, 1952 [1954]. Second edition per Federman & Fletcher [259.1] with cast list for the play's premiere at the Theatre de Babylone in Paris on January 5, 1953 (follows copyright page). 12mo white paperwraps printed in black and blue; back cover marked "15e edition," as called for;..... Item #72703 More
New York: Grove Press, (1961). First edition, a paperback original preceding the UK and French editions. Not issued simultaneously in hardcover, as often seen with these Grove Press productions. INSCRIBED BY BECKETT, "For/ Goddard & Brigitta/ Lieberson/ from their friend/ Sam Beckett/ Paris Oct. 1961." Goddard Lieberson headed up Columbia..... Item #72285 More
New York: Grove Press, (1964). First U.S. edition. Translated from the French by Beckett. "A creature in the mud, a human larva crawling painfully through primeval slime carrying a coal sack of wet jute" containing only the bare necessities -- "such is the setting for this strange but wonderful work"..... Item #72670 More
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1982. First edition thus: number 115 of 299 numbered copies SIGNED BY BECKETT on the half-title page (from a total edition of 325). 8vo gilt-stamped quarter blue leather; marbled paper boards; 45 pages plus colophon. Fine. Item #72370 More
New York: Grove Press, (1972). First U.S. edition. Translated from the French by Beckett. His short tale about a place "where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one." Slender 8vo silver-stamped black cloth boards; 63 pages. Near fine with just a touch of fading at base of spine..... Item #72698 More
New York: Grove Press, (1956). First U.S. edition, hardcover issue [Federman & Fletcher 375.01]. Translated from the French by Beckett. One of a designated 500 specially bound and numbered copies -- this copy unnumbered and presumably out of series. 8vo off-white buckram cloth boards stamped in black, 120 pages plus..... Item #72691 More
(Paris): Editions de Minuit, (1951-1953). First edition of each, in the original French. A set of limited deluxe copies printed on finer paper before the regular copies in the first edition. The three novels in his trilogy later published in English as MOLLOY (1955), MALONE DIES (1956), and THE UNNAMABLE..... Item #72704 More
(London): John Calder, (1959). First UK edition. Collects three novels, "now appearing under one cover, as the author had always planned" (from the jacket flap). Though copyright page states "...first published in one volume in 1959 by John Calder," not issued until March 1960 [Federman & Fletcher 377.12, Lake 121]..... Item #72484 More
Paris: Editions de Minuit, (1951). First edition. In the original French. First novel in his trilogy. Number 320 of 500 copies on Alfa Navarre paper reserved for friends of the publisher. 12mo textured off-white paperwraps printed in black on front and spine; 272 pages. Pages uncut, as issued. Near fine..... Item #72692 More
London: Calder and Boyars, (1970). First edition thus: number 24 of only 100 numbered copies SIGNED BY BECKETT. This copy ADDITIONALLY SIGNED BY PUBLISHER John Calder on title page. 8vo quarter white calf (or vellum); brick-red cloth boards; gilt-stamped front and spine; all edges gilt; 204 pages. In matching cloth..... Item #72372 More
New York: Grove Press, (1957). First U.S. edition, trade issue. His first published novel. 8vo cream rough-cloth boards stamped in brown on spine; 282 pages plus 2 pp. publisher's ads. Near fine with barest toning to upper edges of cloth; in near fine dust jacket with light soiling and internal..... Item #72686 More
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London: George Routledge & Sons, 1938. First edition of his first published novel. In the first-issue binding of smooth green cloth -- from a total of only 1,500 copies in the first edition, reportedly just 718 were in this first-issue binding and the remainder were issued later in a "cheap..... Item #72363 More
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New York: Grove Press, (1957). First U.S. edition of his first published novel. Number 52 of 100 specially bound copies SIGNED BY BECKETT. 8vo gilt-stamped quarter brown cloth; flecked paper boards with small circular design stamped in gray and pink on lower front corner; 282 pages. Near fine with spine..... Item #72362 More
London: Calder and Boyars, (1967). First UK edition. Number "B 68" of 100 numbered copies SIGNED BY BECKETT. There were also 100 copies in the "A" series (bound in full calf, per Lake). 8vo quarter white calf; light green cloth boards; gilt-stamped front and spine; all edges gilt; 168 pages..... Item #72373 More
London: John Calder, (1961). First edition. Collects poems written in English "which the author is willing to have preserved" as well as a few written in French and translated by Beckett himself (together with the original French texts). Bright and fine with strip of offset to endpapers along hinges (from..... Item #72695 More
New York: Grove Press, [1957]. First U.S. edition, paperback issue. His first regularly published book. First-issue with abstract design on front cover (vs. portrait of Proust). Evergreen Book E-50. Copyright states 1931 but actually published in 1957. Very good or better with evidence of small touch ups to black spine..... Item #72473 More