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Beckett, Samuel. As the story was told. Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, 1987.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Published in a limited edition of 325 numbered copies, this being #250. Square Quarto. Designed and printed by Sebastian Carter. Bound by Woolnough Fine Bindings and printed on Zerkall Silurian paper. A lovely book, unfortunately with lower right corner page creases to later leaves and one loss to a lower corner (affecting the lower part of the letter g in reading. the end result: a lower price.)
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Samuel Beckett. As the Story Was Told. The Rampant Lions Press, 1987.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This is number 142 of 325. Designed by Sebastian Carter, transcribed by Christopher Ricks. The clear wrapper has a small tear out of it at the spine. Pictorial boards and spine are clean and square. Pages are crisp and unmarked. Very high quality paper.
Seller: Losaw Service, Lenox Dale, MA, U.S.A.
Beckett Samuel. As the Story was Told. Rampant Lions Press 1987, 1987.
Price: US$249.77 + shipping
Description: Mint in publishers quarter cloth backed patterned boards in acetate jacket (as issued) and bound at Woolnough Fine Bindings. 46pp. Number 299 of a limited edition of 325 copies. Designed and Printed by Sebastian Carter with Variant Readings Selected and Transcribed by Christopher Ricks. 1st edition thus. ISBN B001M51AI8
Seller: Peter J. Hadley Bookseller ABA ILAB, Ludlow, United Kingdom
Beckett, Samuel.. As the Story was Told.. [Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, 1987]., 1987.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: This is an interesting project, brought together by Christopher Ricks. Beckett's text is presented as a single line across the center of each page, and then various other readings are added, based upon the four stages of composition of the manuscript, as well as parallel passages from other works by Beckett. Ricks also contributes a note on the text. Oblong quarto. [48] pp. Printed in black and red on Zerkall Silurian paper. Quarter brown cloth over decorative paper boards, gilt spine. A fine copy in original plain acetate dust jacket. One of 325 copies, designed and printed letterpress by Sebastian Carter.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
BECKETT, Samuel.. As the story was told.. The Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge., 1987.
Price: US$320.22 + shipping
Description: First edition thus. Edited, with a Note on the Text, by Christopher Ricks. Square royal octavo. Unpaginated. [48 pages]. One of 325 numbered copies. Buckram-backed patterned paper boards. Printed in Albertus Light and Ehrhardt on Zerkall Silurian paper. The piece was first published in Günter Eich zum Gedächtnis (1973) and then in Collected Shorter Prose 1945-1980 (1984). The original text is presented as a single running line with variant readings and marginal glosses above and below, drawing on earlier stages of composition. A facsimile of the manuscript is reproduced on the endpapers. Fine in remains of the original plain glassine wrapper.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
BECKETT, Samuel. As the story was told. Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, 1987.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Square 4to, original quarter morocco & paste-paper boards, publisher's slipcase. Very fine copy. First edition, deluxe issue. One of 25 numbered copies signed by Beckett, the only signed issue of this book, out of a total edition of 325 copies printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lion Press, this is copy number 1.
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, advance copy. Oblong small quarto. [44]pp., consisting of eight unbound and unsewn quires. Fine. Signed by Beckett on the limitation page and designated by the publisher as an out-of-series copy of the 25 signed by Beckett (of 325 total). The editor, Christopher Ricks, has transcribed four variant texts of "As The Story Was Told," enhancing the text with selections from other Beckett titles. A nice typographical presentation, printed in two colors; the endpapers reproduce Beckett's manuscript in holograph facsimile. Rare in this format; this is the only advance copy of this publication that we have seen.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.