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Samuel Beckett. More Pricks Than Kicks. Calder & Boyars, 1970.
Price: US$21.28 + shipping
Description: His first published work of fiction (1934), More Pricks Than Kicks is a set of ten interlocked stories, set in Dublin and involving their adrift hero Belacqua in a series of encounters, as woman after woman comes crashing through his solipsism. More Pricks contains in embryo the centrifugal world of Beckett's men and women. She lifted the lobster clear of the table. It had about thirty seconds to live. Well, thought Belacqua, it's a quick death, God help us all. It is not. Name on front endpaper, foxing
Seller: Jason Books, Auckland, AUCKL, New Zealand
Beckett, Samuel. More Pricks Than Kicks. London: Calder & Boyers, 1970.
Price: US$22.71 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. More Pricks Than Kicks. London: Calder & Boyers, 1970.
Price: US$22.71 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. More Pricks Than Kicks.. London: Calder & Boyers, 1970.
Price: US$23.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: SHIPS FROM USA. Used books have different signs of use and do not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage. All images are Stock Photos, not of the actual item.
Seller: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. More Pricks Than Kicks.. London: Calder & Boyers, 1970.
Price: US$50.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. More Pricks Than Kicks.. London: Calder & Boyers, 1970.
Price: US$50.25 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Buy with confidence! Book is in acceptable condition with wear to the pages, binding, and some marks within
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. More Pricks Than Kicks.. London: Calder & Boyers, 1970.
Price: US$50.28 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting.
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Beckett (Samuel). More Pricks than Kicks.. Calder & Boyars, 1970.
Price: US$64.04 + shipping
Description: SECOND TRADE EDITION, pp. 204, crown 8vo, original dark grey boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, spots to top edge, dustjacket with a few tiny nicks, slightly larger one at head of rear panel, very good. First published in 1934, but not reissued until these Calder editions (which began with limited editions a few years earlier). (Federman & Fletcher 16.1)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Samuel Beckett. More Pricks Than Kicks. Calder and Boyars, London, 1970.
Price: US$64.04 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st ed. Ex-library with 1 stamp to ffep, 2 to colophon and blind stamp to title page, some tape residue to ffep. VG clean and tight copy otherwise, in VG+ jacket with no markings
Seller: Object Relations, IOBA, London, United Kingdom
Beckett, Samuel. More Pricks Than Kicks.. London: Calder & Boyers, 1970.
Price: US$65.90 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. Fast Shipping and good customer service
Seller: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.
BECKETT, Samuel. MORE PRICKS THAN KICKS. London: Calder and Boyars., 1970.
Price: US$83.26 + shipping
Description: First trade printing of this reissue of the author's first published work of fiction. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the distinctive Calder dustwrapper. With the ownership name and date of James Booth, former Professor of English at the University of Hull and biographer, editor and former colleague of Philip Larkin in pencil to the front free endpaper, and a few of his lightly pencilled marginal annotations to the text. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, the contents, except for the aforementioned annotations, clean throughout. The dustwrapper, except for some toning and a few light marks, is in very good shape indeed. Not price-clipped (35s. / £1.75 to the front flap). An attractive copy. First published 1934, 'More Pricks than Kicks' was Beckett's first published book of prose fiction, its ten stories partly quarried from the earlier, posthumously published, novel 'A Dream of Fair to Middling Women' (1932). Beckett, content not to republish the stories, eventually relented owing to an increasing demand for them (and the increasing prices being paid for the 1934 Chatto edition). Brimming with the young writer's intellectual energy, and the influence of Joyce, the stories already display Beckett's own very particular comedy and despair. 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
Samuel Beckett. More Pricks Than Kicks. Calder & Boyars Ltd., London, 1970.
Price: US$93.18 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Originally published in 1934, 'More Pricks Than Kicks' by Samuel Beckett is a collection of short prose all connected by the character Belaqua. This is the first republished Calder & Boyars trade edition published in 1970. Fine hardback copy in dust jacket now protected in removable cover. As new. Collector's Item
Seller: first editions, Dublin, Ireland
Beckett, Samuel. More Pricks Than Kicks.. London: Calder & Boyers, 1970.
Price: US$98.39 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. MORE PRICKS THAN KICKS.. London: Calder & Boyers, 1970.
Price: US$98.82 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.44
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. More Pricks Than Kicks.. London: Calder & Boyers, 1970.
Price: US$99.30 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. More Pricks Than Kicks. Calder & Boyars, London, 1970.
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 204 pages
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
BECKETT, Samuel.. More Pricks Than Kicks.. London: Calder and Boyars, 1970, 1970.
Price: US$1921.30 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 23 of 100 copies signed and numbered by the author, and specially bound; originally published by Chatto and Windus in 1934. "A collection of ten witty and satirical short stories about an Irish intellectual called Belacqua Shuah, borrowing the name of Belacqua from Dante's indolent figure in the Purgatorio" (ODNB). Not in Federman & Fletcher. Octavo. Original white quarter calf, orange cloth sides, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, edges gilt. Housed in the original matching orange cloth slipcase. Spine tanned with a couple of tiny scuffs, a near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Beckett, Samuel. More Pricks Than Kicks. Calder & Boyars, London, 1970.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author. Hardcover, bound in vellum over cloth in a cloth slipcase. The spine rubbed and discolored, else fine.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.