(New York: The Center for Book Arts, 2004). First edition. Limited to 100 copies (as stated on each broadside). 12 letterpress-printed broadsides -- EACH ONE SIGNED BY THE POET -- housed together in portfolio handmade by summer interns. Produced in honor of readings at the Center by established and emerging..... Item #55775 More
(New York: The Center for Book Arts, 2005). First edition. Limited to 100 copies (as stated on each broadside). 12 letterpress-printed broadsides -- EACH ONE SIGNED BY THE POET -- housed together in portfolio handmade by summer interns under the leadership of Ana Cordeiro, the Center’s binder-in-residence. Produced in honor..... Item #55773 More
(La Quercia, Italy: John Van Sickle and Giulia Battaglia, 1971). First edition. Number 116 of 180 numbered copies. An additional 20 copies were printed on varying colored paper. THIS COPY INSCRIBED TO PRIZE-WINNING POET ANTHONY HECHT, "For Anthony Hecht, with great esteem, this volume that provoked my life-long study of..... Item #54273 More
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Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1968. First edition. Number 158 of 250 numbered copies SIGNED BY BARTH. Fine in near fine slipcase with few minor scuffs. Item #72368 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
![Item #72393 DREAM OF FAIR TO MIDDLING WOMEN; [posthumously published limited edition]. Samuel...](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72393.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753828227)
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 Beckett set it aside after it was turned down by several publishers, stipulating it not be published until after his death.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
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
(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
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
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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
New York: Grove Press, [1957]. First U.S. edition of his first regularly published book. Number 5 of 250 specially bound and numbered 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; 72 pages. Near..... Item #72369 More
[London]: Turret Books, (1971). First edition, limited issue. Number 21 of 100 numbered copies SIGNED BY BECKETT. Catalog by James Knowlson for exhibition held at Reading University Library, May to July 1971, with foreword by A. J. Leventhal. Illustrated with a photograph of Beckett as well as portraits, manuscripts pages..... Item #72366 More
(Stamford, CT): New Overbrook Press, 1984. First edition thus: Number 73 of 250 copies SIGNED BY BECKETT (beneath the colophon) AND KLABUNDE. The first and only publication of the New Overbrook Press, a reissue of Beckett's short story about a place "where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost..... Item #72690 More
![Item #72688 STIRRINGS STILL; [signed, limited edition]. Samuel Beckett, illustrated by Louis Le...](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72688.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1777502104)
New York / London: Blue Moon Books / John Calder, (1988). First edition. His final prose piece. Written for his publishers Barney Rosset and John Calder. Number 189 of 200 numbered copies SIGNED BY BECKETT AND LE BROCQUY (from a total edition of 226). Folio gilt-lettered imitation leather (vs. parchment)..... Item #72688 More
[New York]: Limited Editions Club, (1989). First edition. Unifies three novellas in a trilogy "which describe old age (Company), the ending of the world (Ill Seen Ill Said), and the creation of life (Worstward Ho)--John Calder, essay in the Monthly Newsletter (laid in). Number 156 of 550 numbered copies SIGNED..... Item #72689 More
Iowa City: The Windhover Press / University of Iowa, 1970. First edition thus. Limited edition of 200 copies with English translation opposite original Icelandic poem. Final version by Anselm Hollo & Sidney Berger. INSCRIBED BY BERGER on half-title page, "Sept. 11, 1970/ To John McGalliard/ with infinite appreciation/ for more..... Item #72516 More
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1927. First edition. Wilson, a civil servant, wrote a number of biographies of literary and historical figures; and as a civil servant, she was one of the first women in the United Kingdom to earn equal pay for her work (Wikipedia). One of 1,480 numbered copies..... Item #55262 More
[Delavan, WI]: G&G Books, (1995). First U.S. edition in hardback. Includes introduction by Martin Cruz Smith and afterword by Block written specially for this edition. Number 365 of 500 SIGNED, NUMBERED COPIES. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #71699 More
Aliso Viejo: James Cahill Publ. 1996. First U.S. edition in hardcover. Number 113 of 200 SIGNED NUMBERED COPIES. Illustrated by Phil Parks. Fine in fine dust jacket and fine publisher's slipcase, as issued. Item #71697 More
Middletown, Connecticut: Robin Price, 2005. First edition. First separate publication of Bloom's short story which first appeared in Ms. magazine. Number 37 of 125 copies SIGNED BY BLOOM, TIERNEY, & PRICE. This copy additionally inscribed "this copy for Allen K. Mears" on colophon by Price who designed, letterpress printed, and..... Item #55875 More
Cummington, MA: The Cummington Press:, (1943). First edition, limited. One of 500 copies. Poets include: e.e. cummings, Kenneth Fearing, Robert Frost, Horace Gregory, Robinson Jeffers, Carl Sandburg, Karl Jay Shapiro, and Wallace Stevens, among others. Slight rubbing at corners, otherwise fine, bright copy in very good, unclipped dust jacket with..... Item #72476 More
[New York]: Limited Editions Club, (1984). First edition thus: number 1087 of 1500 copies SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, Sol Lewitt. FICCIONES, which was first published in its entirety in English by Grove Press in 1962, is the short story collection considered by many to be the best introduction to Borges'..... Item #72442 More
Chicago: Pascal Covici, 1925. First edition thus: edited and with essay of appreciation by Bridges. With 29 illustrations, including the picture by Holbein etched in the author's time, to which is added Mr. Angarola's drawings of his conception of the period & drawings by way of contemporary comment by Gene..... Item #54686 More