‎Beckett samuel‎

‎Beckett Samuel‎

‎COMÉDIE ET ACTES DIVERS‎

‎Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1966. Printed wrappers. About fine in glassine. First edition in French limited issue. Translated by the author. Copy #43 of 80 numbered copies plus 7 hors commerce printed on vélin pur fil Lafuma in addition to 112 copies on bouffant. F &F 151.1. Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT71552

‎Beckett Samuel‎

‎OH LES BEAUX JOURS PIÈCE EN DEUX ACTES‎

‎Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 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 from a total deluxe issue of 499 copies. F&F 149. Les Editions de Minuit unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT71563

‎Beckett Samuel‎

‎COMMENT C'EST‎

‎Paris: 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

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT71568

‎Beckett Samuel translator and Robert Pinget‎

‎LA MANIVELLE PIÈCE RADIOPHONIQUE THE OLD TUNE‎

‎Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1960. Small octavo. Printed wrappers. About fine unopened. First edition trade issue after 17 copies on alfama including Beckett's parallel translation into colloquial Dublin English of Pinget's radio play prepared for the BBC Third Programme and broadcast in August 1960 starring Jack MacGowran and Patrick Magee. F&F 502. Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT71623

‎Beckett Samuel‎

‎POÈMES‎

‎Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 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. F&F 279. Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT71616

‎Beckett Samuel‎

‎SANS‎

‎Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1969. Square octavo. Printed wrappers. First edition in French. One of 550 numbered copies from a total deluxe issue of 749 on vélin cuve B.F.K. Rives. Fine. Les Editions de Minuit unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT27993

‎Beckett Samuel‎

‎MURPHY‎

‎Paris: Bordas i.e. Les Éditions de Minuit 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. Translated from the English by Beckett and Alfred Péron in the years prior to the outbreak of WWII and Péron's death in a concentration camp. Originally published as title 5 in the Collection Les Imaginaires. The total first printing consisted of three thousand copies but after the passing of four years and the sale of fewer than three hundred copies the unsold stock passed to Les Éditions de Minuit and was reissued in these new wrappers bearing their imprint and ads. F&F 145.01. Bordas, [i.e. Les Éditions de Minuit] unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT47073

‎Beckett Samuel‎

‎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 copies hors commerce specially printed and bound and signed by the author. Calder & Boyars hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT76930

‎Beckett Samuel‎

‎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 of one hundred numbered copies hors commerce specially bound and signed by the author denoted as being in advance of the first edition. The trade edition appeared as SIGNATURE 9. Calder & Boyars hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT76928

‎Beckett Samuel‎

‎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. F&F 25.1. Grove Press hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT76965

‎Beckett Samuel‎

‎NEW THEATRE MAGAZINE‎

‎Bristol 1971. XI:3. Small quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrations. Very good. The special "Samuel Beckett Issue" including hitherto unpublished Beckett items as well as essays and a symposium: Pinter Esslin Calder Duckworth Federman et al. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT73636

‎Beckett Samuel: Pinget Robert‎

‎PLAYS VOLUME I .‎

‎London: John Calder 1963. Cloth. Top edge a trace dust darkened a few tiny spots to front pastedown otherwise a very good copy in lightly used dust jacket. First collective edition including Beckett's translation of THE OLD TUNE and Barbara Bray's translations of CLOPE and DEAD LETTER. F&F 502.02. John Calder hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT73089

‎Beckett Samuel‎

‎DAS LETZTE BAND. REGIEBUCH DER BERLINER INSZENIERUNG. HERAUSGEGEBEN VON VOLKER CANARIS‎

‎Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag 1970. 1519pp. 12mo. Printed wrappers. Photographs by Volker Canaris. First printing of this edition. Supplementary essays by various hands. Fine with publisher's catalogue laid in. Suhrkamp Verlag unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT72708

‎Beckett Samuel trans and Guillaume Apollinaire‎

‎ZONE‎

‎Dublin & London: Dolmen Press / Calder & Boyars 1972. Large octavo. Parchment and boards. Fine in near fine dust jacket a bit wavy due to jacket protector. First edition in book form trade issue. Apollinaire's French text appears parallel with Beckett's translation originally published in TRANSITION 50. Dolmen Press / Calder & Boyars hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT72337

‎Beckett Samuel‎

‎FILM HE JOE‎

‎Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag 1968. Stiff printed wrappers. Photographs. Slight laminate loss in one small spot of wrapper otherwise fine. First printing of this edition printing the English texts in parallel with German translations by Erika and Elmar Tophoven with Beckett's French text of the second work appended. F&F 151.2. Suhrkamp Verlag unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT72018

‎Beckett Samuel‎

‎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. F&F 33.2. Faber and Faber unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT71835

‎Beckett Samuel‎

‎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 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

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT71560

‎Beckett Samuel‎

‎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 edition of Beckett's first collection of short fiction by most assessments his scarcest trade publication. The edition consisted of approximately 1500 copies of which only a third sold. Beckett was reluctant to allow its reprinting finally relenting only in 1966 for the "Hors Commerce" edition for scholars which paved the way for the public editions of later years. F&F 16. Chatto & Windus hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT71553

‎Beckett Samuel‎

‎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 from a total deluxe issue of two hundred copies. F&F 386.1. Calder & Boyars unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT70999

‎Beckett Tom‎

‎THE MANDALA BOOK‎

‎Ravenna OH: Shelly's Press 1978. 12mo. Pictorial wrappers. First edition. Inscribed and signed on the Afternote to poet/publisher Cid Corman. Bit of fading to spine rear joint reglued but a good copy. Shelly's Press unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT35840

‎Beckett Samuel‎

‎ALL THAT FALL A PLAY FOR RADIO‎

‎London: Faber and Faber 1957. Pictorial wrapper over stiff wrappers. First British edition. Wraps lightly sunned with two small nicks. Very good. F&F 34.1. Faber and Faber paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT17831

‎Beckett Samuel‎

‎PREMIER AMOUR‎

‎Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1970. Small octavo. Printed wrappers. Fine. First edition in French. One of 99 numbered copies on lafuma from a total deluxe issue of 399 copies. Les Editions de Minuit unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT27991

‎Beckett Samuel‎

‎THE UNNAMABLE‎

‎New York: Grove Press 1970. Gilt cloth. First printing in the format of the uniform COLLECTED WORKS. Edges a bit dusty else about fine in very good or better price-clipped slightly edge darkened dust jacket with small tear. Grove Press hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT58777

‎Beckett Samuel‎

‎FILM COMPLETE SCENARIO / ILLUSTRATIONS / PRODUCTION SHOTS WITH AN ESSAY ON DIRECTING FILM BY ALAN SCHNEIDER‎

‎New York: Grove Press 1969. Pictorial wrappers. Profusely illustrated with photographs. First edition of this form of the text and its accompaniments a paperback original. Near fine. Grove Press paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT46982

‎BECKETT S. B.‎

‎PORTLAND REFERENCE BOOK AND CITY DIRECTORY FOR 1847-8‎

‎1847. BECKETT S. B. THE PORTLAND REFERENCE BOOK AND CITY DIRECTORY FOR 1847-8. Printed by Thurston & Company 1847. 312 pp. folding map. 12mo. library binding with gilt leather spine label. Ex-library with usual markings; perforation stamp on title page. Folding map published by S. H. Colesworthy complete small closed tear at hinge no loss. Persons businesses vessels railroads societies and lodges and Counting House Almanac; with business directory at end many ads illustrated with wood engravings. a. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 89782