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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.

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.

Catastrophe : for Václav Havel; illustration by Joseph Mugnaini.

Read by Patrick Magee. An excerpt from How It Is, Beckett's English translation of Comment c'est, a three-part novel narrated by a man crawling through mud, recounting his life before, with and after Pim, a companion. It was one of the most difficult…

Waiting for Godot : tragicomedy in 2 acts. Annotated by Rick Cluchey on first free endpaper: "1st Prompt-book/Berlin/1975." A presentation copy, inscribed on title page: "With love for Rick/from Sam/Sept. 1988." Cluchey also wrote below…

Waiting for Godot : tragicomedy in 2 acts. Annotated by Cluchey on first free endpaper: "2nd Prompt-Book/London/1984." A presentation copy, inscribed on title page: "for Rick/with love/from Sam/London/1.3.84." Heavily annotated and underlines…

Beckett's personal copy used for directing the 1967 Schiller Theater production rehearsals. This was his first solo directorial effort in German. Bears extensive additions, changes and corrections by Beckett to the German text.

First edition of the play, published in advance of the premiere.

First British edition, translated by Beckett himself.

In this letter to Miss Marx (possibly the publisher Erica), Beckett apologizes for the delay in contact. He explains that he was busy with the negotiations with Faber & Faber for the English-language edition of Godot.