Beckett granted permission for this rather elaborate edition to be published, the cost of which was supported by the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation. Features illustrations by Avigdor Arikha and "binding adorned with an original Pablo…
Revised typescript of the English version of Molloy, a novel first published in French in 1951 and translated by Patrick Bowles in collaboration with Beckett between 1953 and 1955. Published by Grove Press in 1955.
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…
First edition of Beckett's first published novel. Beckett wrote Murphy from 1934-1937. The novel chronicles the life and mind of the titular character, an Irishman living in a condemned building in London.
This first edition of an anthology of black writers includes 19 essays translated from the French by Samuel Beckett. Beckett was a close friend of the famed British expatriate, Nancy Cunard, who ran the Hours Press in Paris. Cunard was involved with…
Heavily revised typescript of Beckett's translation of his play, Happy Days, originally written in English and published in 1961. Some of the revisions in this text were rejected in the printed text of the Les Editions de Minuit edition of 1963.