Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Beckett, Samuel. Endgame And Act Without Words - A Mime. Faber & Faber, 1958.
Price: US$18.08 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback with dust cover. Well read copy with some spine wear but still useable, colouring of page edges due to age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom
BECKETT, SAMUEL. From an Abandoned Work. Faber and Faber 1958, 1958.
Price: US$24.36 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, octavo, string bound light card covers with jacket affixed at flaps, 22pp, VG (moderate tanning & foxing to covers, 2-3cm closed tearing to top & bottom edges of spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (glued to booklet covers at flaps, spine completely torn & covers flapping free with moderate tanning & foxing)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Beckett, Samuel. From an Abandoned Work. Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$25.65 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". 22 pp. Binding firm. Jacket affixed to covers at internal flaps. Jacket marked and chipped with some loss. Jacket entirely split at spine. Edges browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Fiction; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 49796.
Seller: Dreadnought Books, Bristol, United Kingdom
Price: US$25.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 60pp., card covers. Very good condition with just a touch of wear and very slight fading to the front cover. A previous owner's pencil annotations appear throughout. One of Beckett's best-known and important works in what I believe is its first paperback edition. Translated by the author from the original French. 'Endgame' was first performed in 1957, so this edition was published the following year. This edition also contains a 'transcript' of the mime that followed 'Endgame' called 'Act Without Words'. One for Beckett fans! UK postage for this item will be £1.25.
Seller: Gerald Baker, Bristol, United Kingdom
Beckett, Samuel.. From an Abandoned Work.. Faber & Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$27.47 + shipping
Description: Paperback. 22 pp. 1st edition. Some discolouring cover. Spine slightly damaged. 21.5x14x0.3 cm. In good condition.
Seller: Antiquariaat Fenix, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Beckett Samuel. from an abandoned work. Faber & Faber Limited, 1958.
Price: US$32.07 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Faber and Faber office copy.- with the office stamp on title page. Wrapper has a coffee mark. Internally otherwise clean
Seller: Zimnol Arts Books, Middx, United Kingdom
Beckett, Samuel.. From an abandoned work.. London Faber & Faber, 1958.
Price: US$32.97 + shipping
Description: 22 pp. Original wrappers with dust jacket. Federman/Fletcher 33.2. - First book edition (first printed in Trinity News and Evergreen Review). - Jacket with tear on top of spine. Gewicht (Gramm): 150
Seller: Müller & Gräff e.K., Stuttgart, Germany
Beckett, Samuel. From an Abandoned Work. Faber & Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$33.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: From page following copyright page: "From an Abandoned Work was first broadcast by the BBC in the Third Programme on December 14th 1957. It was spoken by Patrick Magee; and the producer was Donald McWhinnie". Thin booklet. String-bound pictorial wraps. Printed in Great Britain. Publisher's original card covers with wraparound dustjacket which is affixed at inner flaps. NOTE: A GOOD COPY ONLY. Slight handling wear, jacket cover almost entirely split at spine (which seems to be common), mild spoiling to cover, small round stain to lower front cover & early pages, otherwise a nice clean softcover copy. 22pp. Uncommon item. SB-1.
Seller: Bookwood, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Beckett, Samuel. from an abandoned work. Faber & Faber, 1958.
Price: US$35.51 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: About the book: String-bound, pamphlet. 22 pages. First Printing. Cover has been glued down we believe. May have been repaired at some time. Interior is clean. At best this is a good copy. Additional photos available upon request.
Seller: The Poet's Pulpit, Oakville, ON, Canada
Beckett (Samuel). From an Abandoned Work.. Faber and Faber, 1958.
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, pp.22, crown 8vo, original wrappers, slightly browned around the spine which is gently knocked at head, small chip at head of front, good. (Federman & Fletcher 33.2)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
BECKETT, Samuel. From An Abandoned Work. , 1958.
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Description: First edition, 1958. Pictorial card covers. Good minus condition; edgeworn with some chips and tears, foxing to back cover, pages tanned but clean and tightly bound, browning to endpapers. Published: Faber & Faber, 1958
Seller: Roy Turner Books, Stockport, United Kingdom
Price: US$43.96 + shipping
Description: 60 pp Good copy with very light foxing. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 8°, red linen with title in blue letters on back, no dustjacket.
Seller: Antiquariat Willi Braunert, München, Germany
Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989). From an Abandoned Work/ by Samuel Beckett. London: Faber & Faber, 1958.
Price: US$43.96 + shipping
Description: Very good pamphlet copy; wrappers somewhat edge-dulled. Browning to the pages and the wrappers.Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 22 p. Genre: Fiction. Plays - England - 1958. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Beckett, Samuel. From An Abandoned Work. London: Faber & Faber, 1958.
Price: US$49.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good in original stiff pictorial wrappers (name/date in pen to top half-title page; some chipping to spinal extremities; slight wear). First Edition, First Printing. 22pp.
Seller: Peter Lenz Bookseller, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$49.68 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Aufl. 1982, Papier nachgedunkelt. Namenseintrag * Versand innerhalb 24h, Rechnung mit ausgewiesener MwSt, zuverlässiger Service LL-3-1-4 Wir akzeptieren nur Vorkasse. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 500
Seller: Gabis Bücherlager, Karlsruhe, Germany
Beckett, Samuel. From an abandoned work. Faber and Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Wrappers, light wear. Name on endpaper.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$52.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 60 Seiten; 20,5 cm; fadengeh. Orig.-Leinenband mit illustr. OUmschlag. Gutes Exemplar; der OUmschlag berieben u. mit kl. Ausschnitt. - EA / First Edition / Erstausgabe. - Englisch. - Übersetzt von Samuel Beckett. - Samuel Barclay Beckett (* 13. April 1906 in Dublin; 22. Dezember 1989 in Paris) war ein irischer Schriftsteller. Er gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts und wurde 1969 mit dem Nobelpreis für Literatur ausgezeichnet. Sein bekanntestes Werk ist Warten auf Godot" (En attendant Godot), das am 5. Januar 1953 in Paris uraufgeführt wurde. Die erste Aufführung im deutschsprachigen Raum fand am 8. September 1953 im Schlossparktheater Berlin statt. Beckett war zunächst britischer, nach der Unabhängigkeit Irlands 1921 dann irischer Staatsbürger, lebte aber seit 1937 ständig in Frankreich. Seine ersten Texte verfasste er in englischer Sprache, in seiner mittleren und fruchtbarsten Phase schrieb er überwiegend französisch, später wechselte er zwischen beiden Sprachen, oft von Text zu Text, und übersetzte seine Werke häufig selbst in die jeweils andere Sprache. . (wiki) // Samuel Beckett's latest play-first performed in London in its original French and here translated into English by Mr. Beckett himself-aroused even greater discussion and comment than Waiting for Godot and his brilliant radio piece, All That Fall. 'In it,' Harold Hobson wrote, 'Mr. Beckett has seen a strange and terrible vision of the end of the world. Two men, one of them blind, with a numb and inactive horror watch the universe freeze into immobility. But it is not all terror. There is love, remembered happiness, an odd courtesy, a peculiar precision and deliberation that show that man may remain undemoralised even if defeated, poetry, and perhaps a hint of salvation. There is humour, too, at once bitter and comforting. Fin de Partie has Mr. Beckett's old qualities and a suggestion of new. The game is finished, the whistle blown; but there is a faint glow of hope in the bleak sadness and despair.' Of Mr. Beckett's unique, original and sometimes terrifying vision, of his brilliant sense of theatre, of his verbal mastery, it is perhaps the most shattering example yet. (Verlagstext) // " NOTE : These plays are copyright in 1958. The first performance in Great Britain of ENDGAME was given in French under its original title of FIN DE PARTIE at the Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, London, on 3rd April 1957. It was directed by Roger Blin, with decor by Jacques Noel. The cast was as follows: HAMM Roger Blin CLOV Jean Martin - NAGG Georges Adet - NELL Christine Tsingos. It was followed by the mime Act Without Words (Acte Sans Paroles) which was played and directed by Deryk Mendel. Music by John Beckett. " (Seite 5) Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550
Seller: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Germany
Beckett, Samuel. FROM AN ABANDONED WORK. Faber & Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$52.95 + shipping
Description: 36 pages. Paper booklet in very good condition.
Seller: By The Way Books, Richmond, TX, U.S.A.
BECKETT Samuel. From an Abandoned Work. Faber & Faber, Londoin, 1958.
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: published by Faber as card covered pamphlet with black red and blue illustrated front cover some fading/browning to edges of covers o/w very good 22pages Size: 8 Ins x 5.25ins
Seller: Ripping Yarns, London, United Kingdom
BECKETT, Samuel.. From an Abandoned Work.. Faber and Faber, London., 1958.
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 22 pages. Wrappers - there was no hardbound issue. A prose piece first broadcast by the BBC in 1957. Spine rubbed and starting to split. Rear cover faded at the edges, slightly marked and with one small chip. Very good.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989). From an Abandoned Work/ by Samuel Beckett. London: Faber & Faber, 1958.
Price: US$58.00 + shipping
Description: Very good pamphlet copy; wrappers somewhat edge-dulled. Browning to the pages and the wrappers.Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 22 p. Genre: Fiction. Plays - England - 1958. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. From an Abandoned Work. Faber and Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Short early work of Beckett, first broadcast on the B.B.C. in 1957. Small book in graphic printed wrap cover with flaps. Rough black slashed design with brush script title and author, eyes peedking through black midsection with a red rose. String bound through middle. Cover has some tanning to back panel and corner chip on bbottom front ( 1/3" by 1/3") , top spine edge chip of 1/3" by 1" on back. Closed tear about halfway up spine fold of outer cover, and at flap folds top and bottom. 22 pp. Fiction, Performance.
Seller: Sea Chest Books, Tucumcari, NM, U.S.A.
BECKETT, SAMUEL. ENDGAME. FABER AND FABER, LONDON, 1958.
Price: US$64.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: BOUND IN RUST COLOURED CLOTH WITH BRIGHT, BLUE TITLES TO SPINE, THIS 1958 HARDCOVER FIRST EDITION IS VG IN GOOD JACKET(UNCLIPPED). 60pp WITH TRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH BY THE AUTHOR. SEVERAL SMALL ANNOTATIONS TO TEXT BY SHAKESPEAREAN SCHOLAR PROFESSOR JOHN BROWN WHOSE THIS BOOK ONCE WAS. ALSO, MORE EXTENSIVE ANNOTATION IN PROF. BROWN'S DISTICTIVE HAND TO REAR RETURN FLAP.JACKET IS 90% COMPLETE, WITH 4cm MISSING FROM SPINE, AND THREE OTHER CHIPS TO CORNERS. THUS VG IN GOOD JACKET.
Seller: Camilla's Bookshop, Eastbourne, SX, United Kingdom
Price: US$64.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Decorative paper-covered boards, chipped at the heel of the spine. Neat ownership signature. A very good copy. Federman & Fletcher 33.2 From and Abandoned Work was first broadcast by the B.B.C. in the Third Programme on December 14th 1957. It was spoken by Patrick Magee; and the producer was Donald McWhinnie
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$65.94 + shipping
Description: 60 Seiten. Original Leinwand mit Rückentitel (Rücken mit kurzer Notiz). Erste Ausgabe in England. - Besitzvermerk auf Vorsatz und Titel, sonst gutes Exemplar. Ha-C5-137 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 2000
Seller: Treptower Buecherkabinett Inh. Schultz Volha, Berlin, Germany
Beckett, Samuel. From an Abandoned Work. Faber and Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Decorated wrappers, fine. First edition.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. From an Abandoned Work. Faber & Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Faber & Faber, 1958. Beckett's fourth work. Published in illustrated wraps with pasted-down flaps (price intact); light bluish-gray with black and red letter and design. A Very Good copy of the First Edition. A bit of sun to the edges, edges bumped and a small chip at top of the spine. An early work by one of the most important writers of the XXth Century. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$109.89 + shipping
Description: 60 pp. Original cloth with dust jacket. Federman/Fletcher 376.1. - First Edition in England. - Few foxy. Gewicht (Gramm): 258
Seller: Müller & Gräff e.K., Stuttgart, Germany
Beckett, Samuel. From an Abandoned Work. Faber and Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 22 pp. Sewn wrappers with dust jacket. Slight rubbing to top edge of rear panel with a couple of short closed tears, else fine. Originally conceived as a "meditation for radio" and broadcast on the BBC in 1957, now generally considered as one of Beckett's short prose fictions. Federman & Fletcher 33.2.
Seller: Triolet Rare Books, ABAA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel.. FROM AN ABANDONED WORK.. FABER., LONDON, 1958.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A trade-size paperback original. Close to fine in stapled wrappers. (Hint of age toning to edges of wrappers)
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Samuel Beckett. From an Abandoned Work. Faber and Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$125.70 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition of this short story by Samuel Beckett, published here for the first time after appearing as a radio story on the BBC. The first edition.'From an Abandoned Work' is an early work by Samuel Beckett, originally broadcasted on the Third Programme on BBC Radio 3 in 1957.The work is a short story told in a first person narrative, revolving around three days in the life of an neurotic elderly man, in which he remembers his past.Three newspaper clippings about Beckett loosely inserted. In the original publisher's paper wraps. Externally, smart. A little discolouration to the wraps, heavier to the rear wrap. Small chip to the head of the rear wrap. Light cockling to the flyleaves. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$158.24 + shipping
Description: 60 Seiten, Orig.-Leinen mit Orig.-Umschlag. - Abgesehen von minimalen Beschädigungen des Umschlages an den Kapitalen, ein sehr gutes Exemplar. Kommentar: *Erste Auflage. - Preceded by the 1957 first edition, 'Fin de partie', and the first American edition earlier in 1958, this first English edition also includes the short sketch 'Act Without Words'.
Seller: Antiquariat Bibliomania, Köln, NRW, Germany
Beckett, Samuel. From an Abandoned Work. Faber & Faber, 1958.
Price: US$160.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1958 Faber & Faber 1st edition 1st impression. 22 pages, in sewn, decorated wrappers. Very good+ clean tight copy, there was no hardbound issue. A prose piece first broadcast by the BBC in 1957.
Seller: MacKellar Art & Books, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Price: US$160.33 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First impression of the first UK edition, published in 1958, preceded by Beckett's original French version "Fin de Partie suivi de Acte sans paroles" published by Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris in 1957, and an American edition published by Grove Press, New York in 1957. ***The UK edition was the first trade edition in hardcover, as the US edition was published as an Evergreen paperback (with a signed limited edition only in hardcover). ***Near fine in rust-red cloth-covered boards with light-blue titles to the spine. The cloth is beautifully clean and unmarked, having been protected by the dustwrapper. No significant creases or bumps. Corners sharp. The edges of the page block are slightly foxed. Very slight reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally, the book is also near fine, with a neat ownership name 'John Levitt' in ink on the front free endpaper (John Levitt was a 1960s TV actor who appeared in "Chips With Everything".) The interior pages are really clean, with no foxing. There are some neat pencil lines and annotations in the margins of a few pages (but these could be rubbed out if so wished). None of the usual offsetting to the endpapers. No creases or tears. ***In a very good monochrome-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 10s 6d net on the front flap. The dustwrapper is only slightly rubbed and scuffed at the extremities, mainly at the top and tail of the spine, but there are also two closed tears to the bottom edge of the front panel, one of which has some associated scuffing and creasing (please see scans). The original owner, presumably John Levitt, has written 'Stand 39' in ink on the front flap of the dustwrapper. The spine of the dustwrapper is clean, with just a couple of small surface scuffs. The back panel of the dustwrapper is slightly foxed and marked (being a white background) and has a small scuff patch near the spine. Dustwrapper otherwise bright. ***205mm x 140mm. 60 pages. ***'"Endgame" is an absurdist, tragicomic one-act play about a blind, paralyzed, domineering elderly man, his geriatric parents and his doddering, dithering, harried, servile companion in an abandoned house in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, who mention they are awaiting some unspecified "end" which seems to be the end of their relationship, death, and the end of the actual play itself. Much of the play's content consists of terse, back and forth dialogue between the characters reminiscent of bantering, along with trivial stage actions; the plot is held together by the development of a grotesque story-within-a-story that the character Hamm is relating. An aesthetically profound part of the play is the way the story-within-story and the actual play come to an end at roughly the same time. The play's title refers to chess and frames the characters as acting out a losing battle with each other or their fate. Originally written in French (entitled Fin de partie), the play was translated into English by Beckett himself and was first performed on April 3, 1957 at the Royal Court Theatre in London in a French-language production. Written before but premiering after "Waiting for Godot", it is arguably among Beckett's best works.' (Wiki) ***'Of Mr. Beckett's unique, original and sometimes terrifying vision, of his brilliant sense of theatre, of his verbal mastery, it is perhaps the most shattering example yet.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***A first impression of the first UK edition, complete in its original dustwrapper, in very good to near fine condition, albeit with a slightly torn dustwrapper. Uncommon. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First English edition. Translated from the original French by the author. Owner's inscription on front flyleaf, a bit of soiling on the boards, very good or better dust jacket with small chips and lettering on spine is lightly tanned, else very good.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$192.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Translated from the original French by the author. 60pp. Brown cloth with blue lettering on spine. Black and white dustwrapper. Light foxing to endpapers and page edges. Dustwrapper, now in protective sleeve, has all corners, but not the price, clipped. Size: Octavo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Beckett, Samuel. From an Abandoned Work. Faber and Faber, 1958.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A fragment of an unfinished novel, written ca. 1955, featuring the musings of a neurotic man. Beckett told his bibliographers that the fragment resulted from an attempt to return to fiction in English. "Asked why it ends abruptly, he replied, 'there was just no more to be said.'" (Raymond Federman and John Fletcher, Samuel Beckett: His Works & His Critics, An Essay in Bibliography, 1970.) Our copy is the first appearance of "From an Abandoned Work" in book form. Trinity News, the student newspaper at the University of Dublin (Beckett's alma mater), first published the fragment in 1956. That was followed by a reprint in the Evergreen Review and a broadcast by the BBC in 1957. Federman and Fletcher 33. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo (8 1/2 inches / 215 mm tall), 22 pages, in sewn, decorated wrappers (soft cover). CONDITION: Light sunning to edges. A Near Fine copy.
Seller: Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA, Hopewell, NJ, U.S.A.
Samuel Beckett. Endgame. Faber and Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First U.K. edition. Translated from the French by Beckett. Mylar protected dust jacket is price-clipped with age-toning most noticeable at edges, a small 1cm stain to rear panel, half-cm loss to base of spine with a further half-cm chip to head of spine. The book itself in dark orange cloth with light blue lettering is in very good condition with light tanning to pages and a slight bump to base of spine. Otherwise no ownership marks or inscriptions to inside pages. Corners are sharp and binding is firm. 60 pages.
Seller: Ethan Daniel Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Beckett, Samuel.. From an Abandoned Work.. Faber & Faber Ltd, London, 1958.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: First Impression. A Very Fine copy in sewn wrappers, as issued. 22pp. Jacket design uncredited. Nobel Prize winner. Q17725
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$230.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 60 p. Translated from the original French by the author.
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First English edition. Translated from the French by the author. Tiny gentle bump on the bottom edge else fine in modestly worn, near fine dust jacket with the spine lettering somewhat toned.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$269.36 + shipping
Description: Some foxing to end-papers, otherwise a very nice copy in slightly foxed and price-clipped dust-wrapper which is just a little rubbed at the head of the spine panel
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. Clothbound book in price-intact dustwrapper. 60 pp. First UK edition. Translated from the French by Beckett himself. One of the author's most important plays. A handsome near fine example in lightly used dustwrapper.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 60pp; terracotta cloth stamped in light blue. Faint paper clip impression and rust mark to front endleaves; near fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket with a half-inch closed tear to the base of the front panel
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Excellent copy with printed Review slip from the publisher laid in.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$384.80 + shipping
Description: First U.K. edition. Octavo. 60 pages. Translated by the author from the original French.Fine in fine dustwrapper.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$450.01 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First English edition. Preceded by the first U.S. edition (New York: Grove, 1958). Originally published in french as Fin de Partie suivi de Acte sans Paroles (Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1957). 8vo., blue stamped red cloth in pictorial black/white unclipped dw, ads to rear inside flap and rear panel, 60pp. Neat silver-coloured 1/2"x3/4 sticker affixed to lower right corner of verso of front board reads "K. J. Bredon's Bookshop, 10 East Street Brighton." Typical age related darkening to dw spine and extremities, small patch of white discolouration near spoine of rear dw, 1/8" closed tear to upper left corner of dw front panel with very slight wear to top of spine. A very attractive copy. "So little here, so much here: and very likely Beckett's most self-sufficient, most economical, most fully realized work. It is one more play for a small theatre, most effective when the theatre is no more than half full and we hear ourselves emit the laughter into which we have been betrayed." (Hugh Kenner) Note : Please contact Sellers & Newel to specify mailing options and minimize costs.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
Beckett, Samuel. From An Abandoned Work (Signed). Faber & faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$1350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Thin octavo. 22 pp. First edition. A most handsome near fiine example. SIGNED by the author on the title page. A book rarely found signed or inscribed.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
BECKETT, Samuel. From an Abandoned Work. Faber and Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Octavo. 22pp. Pictorial wrappers. A near fine copy with slightest toning on the wrappers. Inscribed by Beckett: "for Dan Pope, Sam Beckett, 19.12.84". Very uncommon signed.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
BECKETT, Samuel. From an Abandoned Work. Faber and Faber, London, 1958.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Octavo. 22pp. Pictorial wrappers. A fine copy, with the covers very bright and crisp. Inscribed by Beckett: "for Michael Curtis, Samuel Beckett. London, June 1979". Very uncommon signed.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. Endgame. London: Faber & Faber, 1958.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Faber paperback edition, first printing. Presentation copy; signed and inscribed by Beckett on the title page to Goucher professor and director of the fall 1965 production of Endgame: "For/ George B. Dowell/ with all good wishes from/ Samuel Beckett/ Paris March 1965." Original publisher's orange paper wraps, lettered in black and white. A very good copy with some light wear and rubbing to the extremities, first leaf starting, else near fine. Scarce signed by Beckett.
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.