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BECKETT, SAMUEL.
Waiting for Godot.
Illustrated. 8vo, publisher’s black cloth;
dust jacket, spine panel and extremities tanned, small nick to spine panel head; toning and
ownership signature and doodles to prelims.
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH
.
NewYork: Grove Press, (1954)
[600/900]
WITH
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Another copy. 8vo, gold cloth lettered in red; dust jacket, edges rubbed, scattered creasing and a
few short clean tears along edges; publisher’s note tipped in; owner’s inscription on front endpaper. First
English edition. London, 1956.
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BECKETT, SAMUEL.
Whoroscope.
8vo, original printed red wrappers, stapled as
issued, some very light fading near edges, very small marginal dampstain on front cover,
printed portion from original wrap-around band tipped onto front wrapper (as observed
by Federman & Fletcher in reference to the Bibliothèque Nationale copy); ex-collection
Donald Drapkin with his bookplate; custom
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morocco folding case with onlaid cloth and
leather Celtic design.
Paris:The Hours Press, 1930
[3,000/4,000]
FIRST EDITION OF BECKETT
’
S FIRST BOOK
,
LIMITED TO
300
COPIES
,
THIS THE DELUXE ISSUE
,
NUMBER
247
OF
100
SIGNED BY BECKETT
.
Beckett’s first separately-published work, the recipient
of the £10 prize for the best poem on the theme of “Time” in a competition organised by Nancy
Cunard’s The Hours Press. Federman & Fletcher 5.
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