FROM AN ABANDONED WORK.
London: Faber and Faber, [1958]. Pictorial wrapper over stiff wrappers. First edition in book form. Hint of sunning, otherwise about fine.
Irish Literature
HOW IT IS.
London: 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.....
ILL SEEN ILL SAID.
Northridge: 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.
INSZENIERT DAS "ENDSPIEL" ... MIT DEM TEXT DES STÜCKES IN DER ÜBERSETZUNG VON ELMAR TOPHOVEN UND EINEM BERICHT VON MICHAEL HAERDTNER ÜBER DIE PROBEN FÜR DIE BERLINER AUFFÜHRUNG 1967.
[Frankfurt]: 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.....
LA DERNIÈRE BANDE SUIVI DE CENDRES.
[Paris]: Les Éditions de Minuit, [January 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.....
LE DÉPEUPLEUR.
[Paris]: Les Éditions de Minuit, [September 1970]. Printed wrappers. A couple of trivial smudges to wrappers, otherwise fine, unopened. First edition, limited issue. Copy #33 of 99 numbered copies on vélin pur fil lafuma, in addition to 7 copies hors commerce, 200 on Bouffant, and 92 for La Librairie des.....
LESSNESS.
London: Calder & Boyars, [1970]. Paper boards, lettered in gilt. Crown of spine bumped, otherwise very fine in dust jacket. First UK edition of Beckett's translation of SANS, boardbound trade issue. Published as "Signature 9."
LESSNESS.
London: Calder & Boyars, [1970]. Half cream calf and gilt lettered cloth, a.e.g. Calf a trace darkened, with minuscule nick at crown, otherwise about fine, with the slipcase, which is a very tight fit for the book. First edition, limited issue, of Beckett's own translation of SANS (1969). Copy #52.....
THE LOST ONES.
London: Calder & Boyars, [1972]. Half cream calf and gilt lettered cloth, a.e.g. Some tanning to calf, tiny smudge at lower edge of upper board about fine in slipcase. First edition, limited issue, of this translation by the author of LE DEPEUPLEUR. Copy #82 of one hundred numbered copies, specially.....
THE LOST ONES.
London: Calder & Boyars, [1972]. Half cream calf and gilt lettered cloth, a.e.g. Some tanning to calf, bookseller's prolix pencil annotations to front free endsheet erased, otherwise about fine in slipcase (a few small spots to one panel). First edition, limited issue, of this translation by the author of LE.....
MERCIER AT CAMIER.
[Paris]: Les Éditions de Minuit, [1970]. Printed wrappers. Minute snag at fore-margin of first leaf of text, otherwise a fine, unopened copy. First edition, limited issue. Copy #18 of 99 numbered copies (plus 7 hors commerce) printed on pur fil Lafuma, in addition to 292 copies on bouffant.
MOLLOY.
Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, [March 1951]. Printed wrappers. Text block uniformly tanned, wrappers a bit soiled and slightly spotted, tiny separation at top of lower joint. A sound copy. First edition, ordinary issue, after 550 numbered copies on fine papers.
MOLLOY.
Paris: Collection Merlin / The Olympia Press, [March 1955]. Pictorial wrapper over stiff wrappers. A bit of use at foretips and crown and toe of spine of wrapper, otherwise near fine. First edition of this collaborative translation into English of the French text by Patrick Bowles and the author. The.....
MORE PRICKS THAN KICKS.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1934. Tan cloth, lettered in blue. Spine cocked and somewhat rubbed and a bit darkened, engraved bookplate on front pastedown (Sir George Bull, Baronet of Hammersmith), modest tanning at edges, faint discoloration to top stain, otherwise a good, sound copy, without the rare dust jacket. First.....
MORE PRICKS THAN KICKS.
London: Calder & Boyars, [1970]. Half cream calf and gilt lettered cloth, a.e.g. Spine tanned, with tiny rubs, otherwise very good or better. First edition in this format, reprinting the contents of Beckett's rare first collection of short fiction, first published in 1934. This is copy #23 of one hundred.....
MURPHY.
[Paris]: Bordas, [i.e. Les Éditions de Minuit], 1947 [i.e. 1951]. Octavo. Printed wrappers. Very slight toning at edges of textblock and wrappers, short closed tear in lower edge of rear wrapper, faint rubbing to spine folds, but a very good copy. First edition in French, in the second issue wrappers.....
MURPHY.
[Paris]: Bordas, [i.e. Les Éditions de Minuit], 1947 [i.e. 1951]. Octavo. Printed wrappers. Usual tanning of textblock and edges of wrappers, otherwise about fine. First edition in French, in the second issue wrappers. Translated from the English by Beckett and Alfred Péron in the years prior to the outbreak of.....
MURPHY.
New York: Grove Press, [1957]. Cloth. First U.S. edition, clothbound trade issue. Slight tanning at endsheet gutters, otherwise very good or better in slightly tanned and soiled white dust jacket.
NO'S KNIFE COLLECTED SHORTER PROSE 1945 - 1966.
London: Calder & Boyars, [1967]. Gilt cream calf, a.e.g. Tiny mark on lower joint, otherwise about fine in smudged and slightly torn limp paper sleeve. First edition in English, deluxe issue. One of one hundred numbered copies (designated as series A), specially printed and bound, and signed by the author.....
NOUVELLES ET TEXTES POUR RIEN.
[Paris]: Les Éditions de Minuit, [June 1958]. Pictorial wrappers. Six illustrations by Avigdor Arikha. About fine, in chipped glassine. Second (first illustrated) edition. One of two thousand numbered copies.
OH LES BEAUX JOURS PIÈCE EN DEUX ACTES.
[Paris]: Les Editions de Minuit, [February 1963]. Small octavo. Printed wrappers. Fine in glassine with a bit of tanning at the spine. First edition in French of HAPPY DAYS, translated by the author. Copy #77 of 412 numbered copies on vélin pur fil reserved for La Librairie des Éditions Minuit.....
POÈMES.
[Paris]: Les Éditions de Minuit, [March 1968]. Square octavo. Printed wrappers. Fine, unopened, in glassine. First collective French edition, limited issue. Copy #199 of 550 numbered copies on vélin cuve BFK rives, in addition to 100 copies hors commerce and 112 for La Librairie des Éditions Minuit.
POEMS 1930 - 1989.
London: Calder Publications, [2002]. Quarto. Half green morocco and marbled boards, raised bands, compartments gilt extra, t.e.g. Fine in matching slipcase. First edition, limited issue. One of one hundred numbered copies (90 for sale), specially bound, illustrated with an original lithographed portrait frontis of Beckett by Louis Le Brocquy, and.....
POEMS IN ENGLISH.
London: John Calder, [1961]. Gilt faux-leather textured cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Fine, without printed dust jacket, as issued. First collective edition, limited issue. One of one hundred numbered copies, specially printed on untrimmed handmade paper, differently bound, and signed by the author.
POEMS IN ENGLISH.
New York: Grove Press, [1970]. Cloth. First printing in the Collected Works format. Ink ownership inscription on free endsheet, else about fine in dust jacket.