Browse Items (9012 total)
Sort by:
Watt galley proof
Beckett's second completed novel, Watt, was written in English while he was in the French Resistance and in hiding in the South of France during World War II. It remained unpublished until 1953 when Alexander Trocchi brought it out in collaboration…
Whoroscope
This 98 line poem, based on the life of Descartes, was Beckett's hastily-written, last-minute submission to Nancy Cunard's competition for the best poem written on the subject of time. Beckett won £10 and publication by the Hours Press for the…
Autograph notebook with Dis joe, Imagination Dead Imagine, Paroles et musique
Holograph draft of Beckett's French translation of his television play, Eh Joe, first written in English in 1965 and produced on the BBC in 1966, starring Jack MacGowran, whom Beckett had in mind when it was written.
Mock-up cover and printing notes for Watt
Materials toward the printing of Beckett's novel Watt, from the Alexander Trocchi Papers.First published by Olympia Press / Collection Merlin: Paris, 1953. The book was first published in an edition of 1,125 copies.
Photograph from Fin de partie premiere
Black and white print of Roger Blin in the 1957 original production of Fin de partie (Endgame) at the Royal Court Theatre. Photograph by Rosine Nusimovici.
Playbill for Waiting for Godot
This was one of the first productions of the English language version.
Samuel Beckett letter and telegram to Henry Wenning
Autograph letter signed and telegraph
Samuel Beckett letter to Henry Wenning, 1961: June 2
Beckett states that his new play [Happy Days] is finished but that he isn't sure how he feels about it until he sees it in the theater.
Samuel Beckett letter to Henry Wenning, 1966: January 9
Beckett refers to the limited edition publication of Imagination Dead Imagine, his involvement in the film version of Comédie (Play), and the upcoming productions of Eh Joe, his first television play, in London and Stuttgart. He concludes…
Samuel Beckett letter to Henry Wenning, 1961: May 18
Beckett comments on the success of Waiting for Godotat Odéon Theatre in Paris and the progress on his new play [Happy Days]. As this letter shows, Wenning has become Beckett's preferred book and manuscript dealer by this time.