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Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hand written letter signed on Bird & Bull Press letterhead, 8.5" x 5.5" Very Good. Henry Morris designed and printed Ill Seen Ill Said by Samuel Beckett, published by Lord John Press.Provenance: Herb Yellin (1935-2014) was the highly respected publisher and founder of Lord John Press.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Samuel Beckett. Ill Seen Ill Said. Lord John Press, 1982.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: From the edition of 299 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered and unsigned. Bound in leather backed marbled boards. Uneven sun-fading to the boards.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. ILL SEEN ILL SAID. Lord John Press, Northridge, CA, 1982.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed limited first edition of the author's own translation of his short novel. ILL SEEN ILL SAID is a spare stream-of-consciousness portrait of a solitary old woman, first published in French as MAL VU MAL DIT in 1981 and later collected with two other short pieces in NOHOW ON. Handsomely bound, a nearly untouched copy. 8'' x 6''. Original marbled blue boards with gilt-lettered blue leather spine. 46, [3] pages. Edition of 299 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies; this copy no. 81. Designed and printed by Henry Morris for the Lord John Press on mouldmade Bugrabutten paper. Binding by Bela Blau. Signed by Beckett on half-title page. Minimal edgewear.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Samuel Beckett. Ill Seen, Ill Said. Binder's Copy.. Lord John Press, Northridge, CA, 1982.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited to an edition of 299 numbered and 26 lettered signed by the author, this copy designated for Bela Blau, the binder. Bound in leather backed marbled boards.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Samuel Beckett. Ill Seen, Ill Said. Lord John Press, Northridge, CA, 1982.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The 1982 1st thus, #154 OF 299 COPIES SIGNED BY SAMUEL BECKETT at the half-title. A pristine copy to boot. Tight and Fine in its lovely marbled boards, with bright gilt-rule and lettering at the panels and spine respectively. Also includes a Fine example of the publisher's mylar dustjacket. Octavo, handsomely designed and printed by Henry Morris for the Lord John Press of Northridge, CA.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1107.25 + shipping
Description: Octavo. 45 pages. Limited to 299 signed copies of which this is #105. The book was designed and printed by Henry Morris of the Bird and Bull Press. III Seen, Ill Said forming part of Beckett's final trilogy Nohow On, develops the concern of "Ping" and Lessness with understanding the relationship between fiction and perception. A fine copy bound in 1/4 dark blue leather over marbled paper covered boards, spine lettering gilt. A beautiful copy in publisher's mylar jacket.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
BECKETT Samuel. Ill Seen Ill Said. , 1982.
Price: US$1127.23 + shipping
Description: No. 277 of 299 copies, with a further 26 lettered copies. 8vo. Original quarter blue goatskin over marbled paper boards, pine lettered in gilt. California, Lord John Press, printed and designed by Henry Morris. Signed by the author to the half title. Near fine, top of spine lightly rubbed.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1128.49 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: First Edition thus, First Printing. A fine copy in publishers' marbled boards. Number 268 of 299 copies signed by Beckett on the half-title page. This is a most beautifully produced book.
Seller: Yves G. Rittener - YGRbookS, Zürich, Switzerland
BECKETT, Samuel. ILL SEEN ILL SAID. California: Lord John Press., 1982.
Price: US$1191.64 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition. Original blue marbled paper-covered boards, quarter-bound in gilt-ruled blue calf with lettering in gilt to the spine. Designed and printed by Henry Morris and bound by Bela Blau. Set in Bembo to Bugrabutten mouldmade paper, the fore-edges untrimmed. A fine, bright copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. A lovely example. Signed by the author in black ink to the half title. This example numbered 132 of 299 copies; there were in addition an issue of twenty-six specially bound and lettered copies. Beckett worked on and completed the translation of 'Mal Vu Mal Dit' during December and January of 1980-1, while still working on the original French version, which was completed the same January. The work's first appearance in English, following its publication in French by Les Éditions de Minuit, was in the 5 October 1981 issue of 'The New Yorker', followed by the Grove Press trade edition before the end of the year, the UK (Calder) edition following in 1982. 'Ill Seen Ill Said' is one of the late, great, concentrated prose works (perhaps the finest) published during the last decade of the author's life. "[N]arrated in the third person, [.] its central figure a dying old woman alone amid the snows at lambing time, [.] 'Ill Seen Ill Said', short though it be, is one of the glories of late twentieth-century literature, or, indeed, of world literature of any period." (John Banville in the 'New York Review of Books', August 1992). (Samuel Beckett, 'Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho, Stirrings Still' ed. Dirk Van Hulle [London: 2009]). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
BECKETT, Samuel. Ill Seen Ill Said. Lord John, Northridge, 1982.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Thin 8vo, leather backed marble boards. Northridge: Lord John Press, 1982. Limited Edition. Fine. Number 224 of 299 copies, signed by Beckett on the half-title.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
BECKETT, Samuel. Ill Seen Ill Said (Signed Limited Edition). Lord John Press, Northridge, CA, 1982.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Number 178 of 299 copies with Bembo Type and on mouldmade Bugrabutten paper and designed and printed by Henry Morris with a binding by Bela Blau. A short work of prose from the author of "Waiting for Godot" translated from the French by Beckett. A fine copy in marbled paper covered boards with leather spine. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Beckett.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel:. Ill Seen Ill Said.. Lord John Press, Northridge, California, 1982.
Price: US$1270.62 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8°. 45 (3) S., marmorierter Orig.-Halblederband mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel (Rückenkanten stellenweise minimal berieben). Nr. 195 von 299 (gesamt 325) Exemplaren auf Bugrabütten, von Samuel Beckett auf dem Vortitelblatt eigenhändig signiert. Gedruckt in Blau und Schwarz. "Designed and printed by Henry Morris for the Lord John Press. Binding by Bela Blau."
Seller: Versandantiquariat Ruland & Raetzer, Saarbrücken, Germany
Price: US$1288.26 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 221 of 299 copies signed by the author on the half-title; originally published as Mal vu mal dit (Paris, 1981) and in Beckett's English translation by Grove Press (New York, 1981). Not in Federman & Fletcher. Octavo. Original blue quarter calf, spine lettered in gilt, marbled paper sides, untrimmed. Title page printed in blue and black, opening sentences printed in blue. Spine faintly sunned, tiny scuffs to tips, a near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Beckett, Samuel. Ill Seen Ill Said. Lord John Press, Northridge, CA, 1982.
Price: US$1375.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: 45 pages. First edition, first printing. One (13) of 299 numbered copies signed by Beckett on the first title page. Fine book in original leather and blue boards and gilt lettering to the spine. No dust jacket as issued. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
BECKETT, Samuel. Ill Seen Ill Said. Lord John Press, Northridge, California, 1982.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Quarter blue leather gilt and marbled papercovered boards. Fine. Of a total edition of 299 numbered copies Signed by the author, this is apparently a trial binding and is designated with an asterisk and inscribed by the publisher: " This number * of 299. An odd binding given to Gary Oleson in friendship. Herb Yellin." Presumably unique.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
BECKETT, SAMUEL. Ill Seen Ill Said. Northridge Lord John Press 1982, 1982.
Price: US$1850.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition Thus. Of an edition of 325 copies signed by the author, Samuel Beckett, this is a special copy with ÒThis is a Presentation CopyÓ printed on the colophon page and is signed by Samuel Beckett. This copy was presented to author John D. MacDonald and has a Typed Letter Signed from Lord John Press publisher Herb Yellin sending MacDonald the book. Finely printed on mouldmade Bugrabutten paper at the Bird & Bull Press in gilt-stamped leather and printed blue boards. A very handsome production. Fine without dust jacket as issued.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. Ill Seen Ill Said. Lord John Press, Northridge, CA, 1982.
Price: US$2975.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 45 pages. First edition, first printing. One (D) of 26 lettered copies signed by Beckett on the first title page. Fine book in original leather and blue boards and gilt lettering to the spine. No dust jacket as issued. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
BECKETT Samuel. Ill Seen Ill Said. , 1982.
Price: US$3220.66 + shipping
Description: First edition thus. 8vo., original half black morocco, lettered in gilt, blue patterned paper boards, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Northridge, CA., Lord John Press. Letter 'Y' of 26 specially bound lettered copies signed by the author. A short novel, originally published in French in 1981 and translated by the author, the second part of a three-part invention, alongside Company (1980) and Worstward Ho (1983). A near fine copy.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom