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Samuel Becke from the Library Samuel Beckett Library of Arthur presents Samuel Beckett from the Library of Arthur Uphill PETER HARRINGTON 100 Fulham Road London SW3 6HS Tel +44 (0)20 7591 0220 Fax +44 (0)20 7225 7054 [email protected] Browse our stock at www.peterharrington.co.uk . We offer free shipping on website orders. Members, ABA, ILAB, PBFA, ImCos, LAPADA 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.
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