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First illustrated edition, inscribed by the author on the title page to the director Alan Schneider, "for Alan & Jean, with love from Sam, Paris, July 1972". This is number 864 of 2000 copies of Beckett's short story collection, which gathers "The Expelled", "The Calmative", and "The End". Federman & Fletcher 263.1. Octavo. With 6 illustrations by Avigdor Arikha. Original white wrappers printed in black. With glassine jacket. Tiny marks and creases to wrappers, glassine worn with loss to head of spine panel: a near-fine copy. N° de réf. du vendeur 190856
Titre : Nouvelles et Textes Pour Rien. (Stories and ...
Éditeur : Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1958
Signé : Signé par l'auteur
Edition : Edition originale
Vendeur : Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, Etats-Unis
Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1958. First Illustrated Edition and Second Edition Overall, limited to 2000 copies of which this is no. 539. Small octavo (18.5cm); publisher's white pictorial wrappers in original glassine dust jacket; 220pp.; frontispiece and five leaves of line drawings. Light wear to wrapper and jacket margins, spine panels toned and textblock a bit toned, else a Very Good, unopened example. Signed by Beckett on title page. Compilation of thirteen short stories and prose pieces, including many of Beckett's earliest forays into writing in French. Beckett began these works as early as 1946, writing to the poet George Reavey, "I hope to have a book of short stories ready by the spring (in French). I do not think I shall write very much in English in the future" (No Symbols, p. 81). Nine years passed before the book in question was first published, in 1955. References: No Symbols Where None Intended: A Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, and Other Material Relating to Samuel Beckett in the Collections of the Humanities Research Center, pp. 81-8 Federman & Fletcher 263.1. N° de réf. du vendeur 44020
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Vendeur : Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, Etats-Unis
Etat : Very Good. First Edition. Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1955. First Trade Edition, Limited to 1110 copies of which this is no. 1059. Small octavo (18.5cm); publisher's white wrappers printed in blue and black; 220pp. Moderate shelf wear and dust-soil to wrappers, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound, unopened copy. Signed by Beckett on title page. Compilation of thirteen short stories and prose pieces, including many of Beckett's earliest forays into writing in French. Beckett began these works as early as 1946, writing to the poet George Reavey, "I hope to have a book of short stories ready by the spring (in French). I do not think I shall write very much in English in the future" (No Symbols, p. 81). Nine years passed before the book in question was published. References: No Symbols Where None Intended: A Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, and Other Material Relating to Samuel Beckett in the Collections of the Humanities Research Center, pp. 81-9 Federman and Fletcher 263. Signed. N° de réf. du vendeur 44780
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