More Pricks Than Kicks

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Title

More Pricks Than Kicks

Subject

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. More Pricks Than Kicks.

Description

Scarce first edition of this collection of ten short stories. Beckett had mixed feelings about its publication: excitement over his first book of fiction being published, but also fear that his friends and relatives would recognize themselves in it and be offended. The publisher, Chatto and Windus, failed to find an American press to partner with, and the book was met with mixed reviews and low sales.

In a specially designed slipcase

Creator

Beckett, Samuel

Source

PR6003 E282 M6 1934  

https://catalog.wustl.edu:443/record=b1903767~S2

Publisher

London : Chatto & Windus

Date

1934

Relation

PR6003 E282 M6 1934 c.2: Lacks dust jacket; photograph of Beckett and Geer Van Velde pasted to the front endpaper

1929-1940 exhibit case

To Thomas McGreevy, 9 October 1933: Chatto's took a short book of short stories called More Pricks Than Kicks, and paid me 25 pounds less 25% advance on royalties, which cheered me up for a time." -The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1929-1940, p. 166

Format

20 cm.
jpeg; 300 ppi

Language

English

Type

Book

Identifier

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Extent

277 pages
3 scans

Files

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Citation

Beckett, Samuel, “More Pricks Than Kicks,” WUSTL Digital Gateway Image Collections & Exhibitions, accessed April 20, 2024, http://omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/items/show/14850.