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Beckett, Samuel. Comment C'est.. Les Éditions de Minuit 1961., 1961.
Price: US$21.65 + shipping
Description: 177 pp. Soft cover. Owner's stamp on first free endpaper.
Seller: Rönnells Antikvariat AB, Stockholm, Sweden
Price: US$26.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 397 S. Papierbedingt leicht gebräunt. Schnitt fleckig. - Wie es ist (Comment c'est) ist ein Prosawerk des irischen Schriftstellers Samuel Beckett (19061989). Es entstand 1960, wurde zuerst auf französisch publiziert (Editions minuit 1961) und dann von Elmar Tophoven in enger Zusammenarbeit mit dem Autor ins Deutsche übersetzt. Es ist Becketts letzter Roman, sofern hier ein Gattungsbegriff noch irgendeine Valenz beanspruchen darf. Es ist für das Verständnis des Werkes hilfreich, daran zu erinnern, dass Beckett zeitlebens fasziniert war von der Philosophie Arthur Schopenhauers, in dem er wohl einen Seelenverwandten über die Zeiten hinweg erkannte. Ausgehend von Immanuel Kants Versuch der Bestimmung der Grenzen menschlicher Erkenntnis hatte Schopenhauer dessen Ding an sich" als Willen zum Leben" als den metaphysischen Urgrund des Daseins ausgemacht. Dieser Welt als Wille" steht gegenüber die Welt als Vorstellung". Im Menschen als ihrem höchsten Ziel vervollkommnet sich Natur von ihrem blinden Treiben zur Erkenntnis ihrer selbst: indem der Wille sich aufhebt, wird er zugleich erlöst. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550
Seller: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Germany
Beckett, Samuel. COMMENT C'EST roman. Minuit, 1961.
Price: US$32.97 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Editions de Minuit, 1961 - In-12 broché, couv. cart., 177 pages, petite trace du temps sur couverture (dos bruni) et tranche sinon bon état. Première édition du tirage courant (après 198 exemplaires numérotés).
Seller: Librairie AU SUD DE NULLE PART, Le Landreau, France
Beckett, Samuel.. Comment C'est.. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit., 1961.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: White printed wrappers. Small octavo. 177pp. Copy #46 of 110 copies reserved for La Libraire des Editions Minuit. First edition of Beckett's novel, a monologue by the narrator as he crawls through endless mud, recalling his life separated into three distinct periods. The English edition was published by Grove Press in 1964 in a translation by the author. A good copy with some heavy spotting and soiling to the covers. The spine is browned and has a small white mark near the bottom. The text is good with some light tanning and wear. A few pages are still uncut.
Seller: Centerbridge Books, Old Saybrook, CT, U.S.A.
BECKETT, Samuel. Comment C'est. Les Editions de Minuit, (Paris), 1961.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First trade edition. 12mo. 177pp. White wrappers printed in blue. Spine is moderately browned, a very good or better copy. Beckett scholar, Jacques Guicharnaud's copy with his pencil name on front flyleaf: One of 3000 copies printed, precedes the English language edition.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
BECKETT, Samuel.. Comment c'est.. Les Editions de Minuit, Paris., 1961.
Price: US$109.03 + shipping
Description: First trade edition. Octavo. 177 pages. Wrappers.Spine faintly tanned. Very good indeed.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Samuel Beckett. Comment C'est. Éditions de Minuit, 1961.
Price: US$109.89 + shipping
Description: Bon état. Paris. 12 cm x 19 cm. 1961. Broché. 177 pages. Paris Éditions de Minuit e. o. 1961. Broché 12 cm x 19 cm 177 pages. Texte de Samuel Beckett. Bon état. Bon état
Seller: Librairie Sedon, Rochefort, France
BECKETT, Samuel. Comment C'est. Les Editions de Minuit, (Paris), 1961.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, trade edition. 12mo. 177pp. White wrappers printed in blue. Text in French. Moderate toning on the front wrap and spine, near fine.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. Comment C'est. Les Editions de Minuit, Paris, 1961.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First trade edition, very nearly fine in original white wrappers with toning to the spine, the top edge of pages uncut, and two tiny patches of paper loss on the rear panel.
Seller: Tom Davidson, Bookseller, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. Comment c'est. Editions de Minuit, Paris, 1961.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First trade edition. 1 vols. 12mo. Federman and Fletcher 268 Original wrappers. Spine a little sunned, otherwise a fine copy, largely unopened
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. Comment C'est (Signed). Les Editions De Minuit, Paris, 1961.
Price: US$675.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paperbound book. 175 pp. Text in French. First French trade edition. A handsome very good example. Many pages still uncut. SIGNED by Beckett on the title page.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. Comment C'est. Les Editions de Minuit, Paris, 1961.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original wraps, in glassine dust jacket. Number 13 of 100 copies on Alfa Mouse Navarre paper reserved "au Club de L'Edition." Inscribed by Beckett on the title-p., and dated 1981. Spine lightly creased; faint tape stains half-title page and tissue-guard, and recto and verso of p. 177 (final page of text, preceding colophon).
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
BECKETT, Samuel. Comment C'est. Les Editions de Minuit, Paris, 1961.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 12mo, 177pp. A crisp, clean copy in the publisher's printed wraps. Near fine, with a hint of darkening to spine. Presumed second printing, conforming exactly to the first, but without "1-61" on the rear wrap. A wonderful example, SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Becket to one of his translators on the title page: "pour - Török Gábor Samuel Beckett. Janvier 1988." Based on his name alone, Gábor was probably Beckett's Hungarian translator. "Comment C'est" was published in English in 1964 as "How it Is," though this translation loses the pun in the French original (Comment C'est is pronounced identically as "commencer," the French verb meaning "to begin.").
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel.. COMMENT C'EST.. LES EDITIONS DE MINUIT., PARIS, 1961.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: First trade edition. 3000 copies printed. SIGNED by Samuel Beckett on the title page. Near fine in printed wrappers. (Slight hint of shelfwear to covers) Though issued in a limited signed edition trade copies signed are likely less common. (B)
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
BECKETT Samuel. Comment c'est. Les Editions de Minuit, 1961.
Price: US$1516.51 + shipping
Description: - Les Editions de Minuit, Paris 1961, 12x19cm, broché. - Edition originale sur papier courant. Envoi autographe signé de Samuel Beckett à Gaetan Picon. Dos insolé. [ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOLLOWS] First edition on ordinary paper. Autograph inscription signed by Samuel Beckett to Gaetan Picon. Spine sunned.
Seller: Librairie Le Feu Follet, Paris, France
BECKETT Samuel. Comment C'est. , 1961.
Price: US$1603.34 + shipping
Description: First edition. Small 8vo. Original wrappers lettered in blue and black. Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit. Signed by the author on the title page. Number 68 of 80 copies numbered and printed on Alfa Mousse Navarre paper. A near fine copy in glassine dust jacket.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom