Samuel Beckett was an Irish avant-garde playwright, poet, and novelist who offered the world works with a bleak, tragicomic view on human nature. As a young man, he assisted James Joyce while the latter wrote Finnegans Wake. After decades of relative obscurity, he rose to immediate prominence with the performance of Waiting for Godot in 1953. Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969. His most notable works include Murphy (1938), Molloy (1951), Malone Dies (1951), The Unnamable (1953), Waiting for Godot (1953), Watt (1953), Endgame (1957), Krapp's Last Tape (1958), and How It Is (1961).
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1931. First edition. Beckett's second book, preceded only by Whoroscope. No. 7 in the series of Dolphin Books. Inscribed by Beckett on the title page: "for Alan with love from Sam”. Uncommon signed by Beckett. Read More Item Details for Proust Add to Wish List
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Paris: Les éditions de minuit, [1957]. First trade edition. Translated into English as Endgame. Read More Item Details for Fin de partie suivi de Actes sans paroles Add to Wish List
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[Northridge, CA]: The Lord John Press, 1983. Number 98 of 100 copies, signed by Beckett and Mugnaini. Read More Item Details for Catastrophe. For Václav Havel Add to Wish List
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Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, [1966]. First edition, #305 of 450 copies. Inscribed on the title page, "for William & Roslyn Targ from Samuel Beckett". Roslyn Targ (1925-2017), was Beckett's literary agent. Her husband, William Targ (1907-1999), was an editor and then head of Putnam's before founding his own imprint..... Read More Item Details for assez Add to Wish List
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Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955. First edition in English. Read More Item Details for Molloy. A novel translated from the French by Patrick Bowles in collaboration with the Author Add to Wish List
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New York/London: Blue Moon Books and John Calder, 1988. Brocquy, Louis le. Limited edition, number 168 of 200, signed by the author and the artist. Beckett's last work, with illustrations by Louis le Brocquy, including one original duotone lithograph. Limited to an edition of 200 numbered copies and 26 copies..... Read More Item Details for Stirrings Still Add to Wish List
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[Paris]: Librairie Compagnie. First Edition, 89 copies (plus 35 h.c.). Last published item by Beckett in his lifetime. Read More Item Details for Comment Dire Add to Wish List
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New York/London: Blue Moon Books and John Calder, [1988]. Brocquy, Louis le. Edition of 200, with a further 26 copies designated A-Z, all signed by the author and the artist. This is copy J of 26. Inscribed. This a presentation copy on the half-title inscribed by Beckett "for/Tom & Helen..... Read More Item Details for Stirrings Still Add to Wish List
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Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1952. First trade edition (after 35 signed copies on large paper), one of 2,500 copies. Beckett's masterpiece, and one of the defining works of the 20th century. A major innovation in modern drama, possibly the most important play of the 20th Century, and certainly the..... Read More Item Details for En attendant Godot Add to Wish List
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New York: Grove Press, (1954). First edition in English (translated by the author), preceding the British edition. First edition in English (translated by the author), preceding the British edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with slightest toning at the spine and a tiny tear, housed in a quarter morocco and cloth..... Read More Item Details for Waiting for Godot Add to Wish List
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New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1989. Ryman, Robert. Edition limited to 550 numbered copies signed by Beckett and Ryman. Read More Item Details for Nohow On Add to Wish List
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Dublin: Black Cat Press in association with Faber and Faber, [1986]. First trade edition. With a slip mounted to f.f.e.p. inscribed, "For Bill [Targ] from Sam March 1987". William Targ (1907-1999), was an editor and then head of Putnam's before founding his own imprint, Targ Editions; he was also a...... Read More Item Details for The Beckett Country. Samuel Beckett's Ireland Add to Wish List
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[Paris]: Les éditions de minuit, [1969]. First edition, number 109 of 550 copies (of 742 total). Inscribed on the title page, "for William & Roslyn Targ from Samuel Beckett". William Targ (1907-1999), was an editor and then head of Putnam's before founding his own imprint, Targ Editions; he was also..... Read More Item Details for sans Add to Wish List
Item #311805
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Paris: Les éditions de minuit, [1966]. #68 of 80 copies printed on pur fil Lafuma. Inscribed on the title page: "for Bill & Roslyn in friendship from Sam". William Targ (1907-1999), was an editor and then head of Putnam's before founding his own imprint, Targ Editions; he was also a...... Read More Item Details for Comédie et actes divers Add to Wish List
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Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, [1967]. FIRST EDITION. Read More Item Details for Têtes-Mortes Add to Wish List
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London: Faber and Faber, [1976]. Uncorrected Proof Copy. Read More Item Details for Footfalls Add to Wish List
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London: Faber and Faber, [1962]. First UK edition. Read More Item Details for Happy Days Add to Wish List
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London: Calder and Boyars, [1965]. Number 11 of 100 copies signed by the author. Additionally inscribed on title-page "For/ Bill & Roslyn/ their friend/ Sam." William Targ (1907-1999), was an editor and then head of Putnam's before founding his own imprint, Targ Editions; he was also a noted bibliophile and..... Read More Item Details for Imagination Dead Imagine...translated from the French by the author Add to Wish List
Item #311731
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Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, [1966]. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 73 of 112 copies reserved for publisher of 550 copies on Rives from an edition of 762 (there were 100 hors commerce and 112 reserved for the publisher). Read More Item Details for bing Add to Wish List
Item #311713
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Paris: Bordas / Éditions de Minuit, 1947 [but 1954]. First edition in French, second issue. First French edition, second issue. Inscribed on the title page, "For William & Roslyn Targ with all good wishes Sam Beckett." Beckett's first novel, written in English and originally published in 1938. This French translation..... Read More Item Details for Murphy Add to Wish List
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[London]: Privately Printed [by the Shenval Press], 1960. One of 70 copies “printed and distributed for the friends of T. E. H[anley]" Tindall was a Professor of English at Columbia at the time of this publication on Beckett's “semblables”. Read More Item Details for Beckett's Bums Add to Wish List
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Paris: Editions de Minuit, [1961]. First trade edition. Read More Item Details for Comment c'est Add to Wish List
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Paris: Editions de Minuit, [1968]. First edition, No. 307 of 550 copies (total edition of 762, all printed on "velin cuve B.F. K. Rives" Read More Item Details for Poèmes Add to Wish List
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