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.
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."