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1. BECKETT, Samuel. All That Fall. A Play for Radio. London: Faber and Faber, 1957 [51197] Octavo. Original blue wrappers printed in black and pink. Lightly rubbed, spine and contents a little toned. An excellent copy. £125 First edition, first impression.

2. BECKETT, Samuel. As the Story Was Told. Uncollected and Late Prose. London, John Calder; New York, Riverrun Press, 1990 [51220] Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the dust jacket. £85 First edition, first impression.

3. BECKETT, Samuel. Cascando and other short dramatic pieces. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1968 [51193] Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket. £75 First US edition, first printing.

4. BECKETT, Samuel. Come And Go. Dramaticule. London: Calder and Boyars, 1967 [51200] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black and red. Very lightly rubbed, an excellent copy. £125 First edition, first impression.

5. BECKETT, Samuel. Come and Go. Dramaticule. London: Calder and Boyars, 1967 [51259] Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to upper board gilt. In a tan slipcase. Contents a little toned, an excellent copy. £650 First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 100 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf.

6. BECKETT, Samuel. Comédie et actes divers. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1966 [51176] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in blue and black. A fine uncut copy. £150 First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 80 numbered copies.

7. BECKETT, Samuel. Comment C’est. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1961 [51138] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black and blue. An excellent, uncut copy. £1,250 First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 100 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf.

8. BECKETT, Samuel. Comment C’est. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1961 [51148] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in blue and black. Lightly rubbed, an excellent, partially uncut, copy. £100 First trade edition, first impression.

9. BECKETT, Samuel. Comment C’est. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1961 [51149] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black and blue. An excellent uncut copy. £375 First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 80 numbered copies.

10. BECKETT, Samuel. Compagnie. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1980 [51165] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in blue and black. A fine copy. £50 First trade edition, first impression.

11. BECKETT, Samuel. Company. London: John Calder, 1980 [51217] Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket. £150 First edition, first impression.

12. BECKETT, Samuel. D’un ouvrage abandonné. Traduit del’anglais par Ludovic et Agnès Janvier en collaboration avec l’auteur. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1967 [51183] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black. An excellent uncut copy. £150 First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 90 numbered copies.

13. BECKETT, Samuel. Dramatische Dichtungen. Deutsche Übertragung von Erika und Elmar Tophoven. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1963–64 [51128] 2 volumes, octavo. Original black and white cloth, titles to spine white on black ground. With the dust jackets and original slipcases. An excellent set in the dust jackets with tanned spine panels. £175 First edition thus, first impression. The first appearance in print of Acte sans paroles II (Mime for two male players).

14. BECKETT, Samuel. Dream of Fair to Middling Women. Edited by Eoin O’Brien and Edith Fournier. Foreword by Eoin O’Brien. New York: Arcade Publishing, 1993 [51192] Octavo. Original brown cloth backed green boards, titles to spine gilt, cream endpapers. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the rubbed jacket. £35 First US edition, first printing.

15. BECKETT, Samuel. Echo’s Bones and Other Precipitates. Paris: Europa Press, 1935 [51135] Octavo. Original buff wrappers printed in black. Wrappers a little tanned and with a few small marks but a very nice copy. £1,500 First edition, first impression. From a total edition of 327 copies this is one on the ordinary paper, unnumbered and out of series.

16. BECKETT, Samuel. Endgame. A Play in One Act followed by Act Without Words A Mime for One Player. Translated from the French by the author. New York: Grove Press, 1958 [51203] Octavo. Original white cloth, titles to spine and upper board in brown. Spine and top edges of boards a little toned, an excellent copy. £125 First US edition, casebound issue. Originally published in France in 1957.

17. BECKETT, Samuel. Ends and Odds. Plays and Sketches. London: Faber and Faber, 1977 [51216] Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the dust jacket. £75 First edition, first impression.

18. BECKETT, Samuel. Film suivi de souffle. Traduits de l’anglais par l’auteur. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1972 [51167] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black. An excellent uncut copy. £175 First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 200 numbered copies.

19. BECKETT, Samuel. Fin de partie. Suivi de Acte sans paroles. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1957 [51147] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in blue and black. Spine and wrappers verly lightly rubbed and tanned, contents a bit browned. A very good copy. £125 First trade edition, first impression.

20. BECKETT, Samuel. From an Abandoned Work. London: Faber and Faber, 1958 [51199] Octavo. Original blue wrappers printed in black and red. A fine copy. £125 First edition, first impression.

21. BECKETT, Samuel. Gedichte. Wiesbaden: Limes Verlag, 1959 [51142] Octavo. Original pink boards printed in black and orange. £875 First edition thus, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the title page “For Arthur Uphill, cordially Samuel Beckett, Paris July 1959”. Included is the brown paper mailing wrapper on which Beckett has written the addresses.

22. BECKETT, Samuel. The Grove Centenary Edition. Paul Auster, Series Editor. Introduction by Colm Toibín. New York: Grove Press, 2006 [51134] 2 volumes, octavo. Original black and purple boards, titles to spine in silver, black endpapers. An excellent set. £150 First edition thus, first impression.

23. BECKETT, Samuel. How It Is. Translated from the French by the author. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1964 [51253] Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed dust jacket with a small nick to the head of the spine panel. £75 First US edition, first printing. Originally published in Paris in 1961.

24. BECKETT, Samuel. Imagination Morte Imaginez. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1965 [51156] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black. A fine, uncut copy. £125 First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 450 numbered copies.

25. BECKETT, Samuel. Immobile. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1976 [51143] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black. An excellent, uncut copy. £95 First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 100 numbered copies on paper.

26. BECKETT, Samuel. Krapp’s Last Tape and Embers. London: Faber and Faber, 1959 [51198] Octavo. Original green wrappers printed in black and red. A fine copy. £150 First edition, first impression.

27. BECKETT, Samuel. L’image. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1988 [51174] Small octavo. Original white wrappers printed in blue and black. A fine uncut copy. £50 First trade edition, first impression.

28. BECKETT, Samuel. Le Dépeupleur. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1970 [51163] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in blue and black. Lightly rubbed, an excellent uncut copy. £150 First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 99 numbered copies.

29. BECKETT, Samuel. Le Dépeupleur. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1970 [51187] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in blue and black. Contents very lightly toned. An excellent copy. £40 First trade edition, first impression.

30. BECKETT, Samuel. Le Monde et Le Pantalon. Les Editions de Minuit, 1989 [51145] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black and blue. A fine copy. £35 First trade edition, first impression.

31. BECKETT, Samuel. Le Monde et Le Pantalon. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1989 [51159] Small octavo. Original white wrappers printed in blue and black. £150 First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 99 numbered copies.

32. BECKETT, Samuel. Malone Dies. A novel translated from the French by the author. New York: Grove Press, 1965 [51205] Octavo. Original tan cloth, titles to spine and upper board in black. Bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown. Spine and top edges of boards lightly tanned. An excellent copy. £175 First US edition, first impression, one of a special edition of 500 numbered copies.

33. BECKETT, Samuel. Mercier and Camier. Translated from the original French by the author. London: Calder & Boyars, 1974 [51221] Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Price ticket to front flap of dust jacket. An excellent copy in the tanned jacket. £85 First UK edition, first impression. Originally published in Paris in 1970.

34. BECKETT, Samuel. Mercier et Camier. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1970 [51151] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in blue and black. Very lightly rubbed. An excellent uncut copy. £175 First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 99 numbered copies.

35. BECKETT, Samuel. Molloy. A Novel. Translated from the French by Patrick Bowles in collaboration with the Author. Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955 [51224] Octavo. Original blue wrappers printed in black and yellow. Lightly rubbed, very slight partial toning to free endpapers. An excellent copy. £150 First English language edition, first impression.

36. BECKETT, Samuel. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable. A Trilogy. Paris: The Olympia Press, 1959 [51131] Octavo (172 × 110 mm). Contemporary white calf backed red cloth, titles to spine gilt, red endpapers. Lightly rubbed, upper board a little bowed, contents toned. A very good copy. £45 First Olympia Press edition, first impression.

37. BECKETT, Samuel. Molloy [with] Malone Meurt [and] L’Innommable. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1951-53 [51189] 3 volumes, octavo. Original white wrappers printed in blue and black. Wrappers rubbed, toned, and marked, contents to volume I browned and to II and III tanned. A good set. £175 First trade editions, first impressions of Beckett’s trilogy.

38. BECKETT, Samuel. More Pricks Than Kicks. London: Chatto and Windus, 1934 [51262] Octavo. Original tan cloth, titles to spine in blue, brown top-stain. Spine rolled and tanned, contents a little toned. A very good copy. £4,250 First edition, first impression.

39. BECKETT, Samuel. More Pricks Than Kicks. London, Calder & Boyars, 1966 [60798] Quarto. Printed on rectos only, original white wrappers, stapled at edge, titles to upper wrapper in black. An excellent copy. £150 Second edition - the so-called, “Special edition Hors Commerce for Scholars” of which two issues exist. One with the wrappers printed in red and bearing the statement “Limited to 100 copies” and this one more crudely bound, printed in black and with no statement of limitation. Federman & Fletcher A16

40. BECKETT, Samuel. Murphy. [Paris:] Bordas, 1947 [51185] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in blue and black. Wrappers rubbed, tanned, and lightly marked, contents tanned. A very good copy. £250 First edition, second issue.

41. BECKETT, Samuel. Murphy New York: Grove Press, 1957 [51207] Octavo. Original white cloth, titles to spine in brown. With the dust jacket. Spine very slightly tanned, light spotting to top edges of boards. An excellent copy in the rubbed jacket with tanned spine panel. £150 First US edition, first printing. Originally published in Paris in 1938.

42. BECKETT, Samuel. Nohow On. Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho. London: John Calder, 1989 [51219] Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket. £75 First edition thus, first impression.

43. BECKETT, Samuel. Not I. London: Faber and Faber, 1973 [51201] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black and red. A fine copy. £75 First edition, first impression.

44. BECKETT, Samuel. Nouvelles et Textes Pour Rien. Paris: les Editions de Minuit, 1955 [51136] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in blue and black. Wrappers lightly rubbed and nicked with a few small spots, an excellent copy. £1,500 First edition, first impression, one of a limited edition of 1130 copies. Inscribed by the author on the half-title “For M. O. White, his friend Samuel Beckett, Paris, March 1955”.

45. BECKETT, Samuel. Nouvelles et Textes Pour Rien. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1955 [51155] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in blue and black. Wrappers lightly rubbed and creased, an excellent copy. £150 First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 1130 numbered copies.

46. BECKETT, Samuel. Nouvelles et Textes Pour Rien. Avec 6 illustrations d’Avigdor Arikha. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1958 [51153] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black. 6 illustrations by Avigdor Arikha. Occasional light spotting to contents. An excellent copy. £125 First illustrated edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 2000 copies.

47. BECKETT, Samuel. Oh les beaux jours. Pièce en deux actes. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1963 [51177] Small octavo. Original white wrappers printed in blue and black. Hinges a little cracked, an excellent uncut copy. £175 First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 80 numbered copies.

48. BECKETT, Samuel. Pas. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1977 [51182] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black. A fine uncut copy. £125 First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 100 numbered copies.

49. BECKETT, Samuel. Pas Moi. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1975 [51181] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black. A fine uncut copy. £150 First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 150 copies.

50. BECKETT, Samuel. Poèmes. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1968 [51172] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black. A fine uncut copy. £150 First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 550 numbered copies.

51. BECKETT, Samuel. Poèmes. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1978 [51178] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in blue and black. A fine uncut copy. £125 First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 99 numbered copies.

52. BECKETT, Samuel. Poems in English. London: John Calder, 1961 [51257] Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the original glassine dust jacket. An excellent copy in the glassine jacket that is creased at the lower corner with a small chip and a short closed tear. £650 First edition, first impression, one of a limited edition of 100 copies signed and numbered by the author on the limitation leaf.

53. BECKETT, Samuel. Pour finir encore. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1976 [51164] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black. An excellent uncut copy. £175 First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 100 numbered copies.

54. BECKETT, Samuel. Pour Finir Encore et autres foirades. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1976 [51188] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in blue and black. An excellent copy. £45 First trade edition, first impression.

55. BECKETT, Samuel. Premier Amour. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1970 [51162] Small octavo. Original white wrappers printed in blue and black. An excellent, uncut copy. £150 First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 99 numbered copies.

56. BECKETT, Samuel. Premier Amour. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1970 [51186] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in blue and black. Contents very slightly toned. An excellent copy. £40 First trade edition, first impression.

57. BECKETT, Samuel. Sans. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1969 [51170] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black. A fine uncut copy. £125 First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 550 numbered copies.

58. BECKETT, Samuel. Séjour. Jean Deyrolle. Paris: G. R., 1970 [51139] Long quarto. Set of 10 unbound, folded leaves in white paper wrappers printed in black. With the original cloth slipcase. Frontispiece and 4 engravings by Jean Deyrolle. An excellent copy. £975 First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 125 numbered copies signed by the author and artist on the verso of the half-title.

59. BECKETT, Samuel. Solo suivi de catastrophe. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1982 [51184] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black. An excellent uncut copy. £150 First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 99 numbered copies.

60. BECKETT, Samuel. Stories & Texts For Nothing. New York: Groves Press, Inc., 1967 [51194] Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Engraved frontispiece and 5 plates. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket. £75 First US edition, first printing. Originally published in Paris in 1958.

61. BECKETT, Samuel. That Time. London: Faber and Faber, 1976 [51202] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black. An excellent copy. £50 First edition, first impression.

62. BECKETT, Samuel. Watt. Paris: The Olympia Press, 1953 [51137] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box made by The Chelsea Bindery. Wrappers a little toned, particularly to the spine, contents partially uncut. An excellent copy. £9,750 First edition, first impression. One of just 25 lettered copies printed on handmade paper each signed by the author. The smallest limitation of any of the author’s major works and a rarity on the market.

63. BECKETT, Samuel. Watt. Paris: The Olympia Press, 1958 [51226] Octavo. Original green boards, printed paper labels to spine and upper board, red endpapers. With the dust jacket. Mild bump to top corner, a little tanning along upper edges of boards. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed and nicked jacket. £125 First trade edition, first impression.

64. BECKETT, Samuel. Watt. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1968 [51152] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in blue and black. Top edge of upper wrapper very lightly toned. An excellent copy. £275 First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 90 numbered copies.

65. BECKETT, Samuel. Worstward Ho. London: John Calder, 1983 [51222] Octavo. Original green boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Slight scratch to upper board, an excellent copy in the jacket. £95 First edition, first impression.

66. BECKETT, Samuel & James Joyce. Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress. With Letters of Protest by G. V. L. Slingsby and Vladimir Dixon. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1929 [51228] Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black. Bump to tail of spine, wrappers lightly rubbed and toned, contents uncut and a little toned. A very good copy. £425 First edition, first impression. The letters of protest are pseudonyms of James Joyce. Only 300 copies were printed.

67. (BECKETT, Samuel) (PAZ, Octavio.) Anthology of Mexican Poetry. Translated by Samuel Beckett. Compiled by Octavio Paz. Preface by C. M. Bowra. London: Thames and Hudson, 1958 [51190] Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine and roundel to upper board gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine titles a little dull, an excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with faded spine panel. £150 First edition, first impression.

Arthur Uphill (1931-2009) became a cataloguer with Bertram Rota in 1955 and remained with the firm for nearly 38 years. Mr. Uphill’s passion and cataloguing specialty was the work of expatriate authors living and working in Paris after 1918 and was regarded as an authority of international renown. He was especially regarded for his knowledge on the life and works of Gertrude Stein and Samuel Beckett.