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This volume collects four of Beckett's short prose works: D'un ouvrage abandonné, Assez, Imagination morte imaginez and Bing

First edition of dust jacket of Tests of Time by William H. Gass, New York: Knopf, 2002

Typed draft with extensive corrections ofTexts for Nothingby Samuel Beckett, December 7, 1966.Texts for Nothingwas translated by Beckett from the original French version, Nouvelles et Textes Pour Rien, written between 1950 and 1952.

Typed [carbon] draft with minimal corrections of Texts for Nothing by Samuel Beckett, circa 1963-1966. Textsfor Nothing was translated by Beckett from the original French version, Nouvelles et Textes Pour Rien, written between 1950 and 1952.

First published in English in No's Knife: Collected Shorter Prose, 1945-1966, this fiction, along with the novel trilogy, came to be recognized as a milestone in the literary shift from modernism to postmodernism.

Typescript draft of That Time of Year, an early draft of Carpenter's Gothic by William Gaddis.

Typescript draft forThe (Diblos) Notebook by James Merrill.

Broadside advertisement for The Bait by James Merrill performed by The Artists Theatre and directed by Herbert Machiz, May 18- 23, 1953.

Typescript draft of The Bait by James Merrill.

The Black Swan, Kimon Friar's privately printed book of James Merrill's college poetry, probably at least partially financed by Merrill, himself. This copy inscribed to "Jonnie."