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Beckett, Samuel. Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates. Europa Press, Paris, 1935.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Wide printed wrappers. 36 unnumbered pages. First edition of this very early offering by Beckett. This is copy 55 of 300 trade copies on Arches paper. These copies are mechanically numbered with the printers slip showing the issue number. A handsome very good example.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
BECKETT, Samuel.. Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates.. Europa Press, Paris, 1935.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, publisher's printed wrappers in custom cloth folding box. First edition; No. 117 of 250 copies on Alfa paper; the total edition is 327 copies. A fresh, unworn, near fine copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
BECKETT, SAMUEL.. Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates. Paris: Europa Press, 1935, 1935.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; publisher's wrappers; fine in a custom clamshell box. One of 250 numbered copies. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
BECKETT, Samuel.. Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates.. Paris: Europa Press,, 1935.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: [36 pp]. Some uneven offsetting to rear cover, else very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 250 numbered copies (this is copy #7). Though not called for in this state, SIGNED by Beckett on the title page. Federman & Fletcher 22.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
BECKETT, Samuel. Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates. Europa Press, Paris, 1935.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: Small, thin 4to, original printed buff wrappers. A very fine copy, rare signed, preserved in a half-morocco slipcase. A very fine copy, rare signed, preserved in a half-morocco slipcase First edition of Beckett's second book of poetry. Although not called for, this copy is signed by Beckett in a bold contemporary hand on the title-page and is numbered "28" by hand on the colophon page. The numbers on the colophons of the ordinary edition on Alfa paper were ink-stamped, suggesting that this may have been a special copy.
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
BECKETT, Samuel. ECHO'S BONES AND OTHER PRECIPITATES. Europa Press, Paris, 1935.
Price: US$9375.00 + shipping
Description: Original tan wraps with front cover lettered in black. One of only 250 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered and one of Beckett's retained copies. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page to Richard Seaver, chief editor of Grove Press, and his wife Jeannette: "For/Dick & Jeannette/with love from Sam/Sept. 88." Seaver was one of three young publishers who created Merlin Press in the early 1950s as a vehicle to publish and promote Beckett. Outstanding Association copy. Near Fine and scarce when signed
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Simple unprinted bound wrappers in printed paper dustwrapper. Unpaginated. Becket''s second book of poems. A clean very good copy. This is Copy I of XXV special copies SIGNED by Beckett and printed on Normandy Vellum. Exceptionally rare thus. Includes Beckett's bold signature from his early years.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.