Beckett, Samuel. More Pricks Than Kicks 1st Edition. Chatto and Windus, 1934.

Price: US$1750.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Mylar jacket. Cover shelf worn. 278 pp. Gift inscription on fep. Foxing. "The volume published by Chatto and Windus sold only 500 copies out of 1,500 printed, and is now rare". Federman & Fletcher 16. The author's first published book of fiction, containing ten satirical stories about a young Dublin intellectual called Belacqua Shuah.

Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.

BECKETT, Samuel.. More Pricks Than Kicks.. London: Chatto and Windus, 1934, 1934.

Price: US$4486.95 + shipping

Description: First edition, first impression, of Beckett's first collection of short stories, decidedly uncommon on the market. "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). Federman & Fletcher 16. Octavo. Original tan cloth, spine lettered and decorated in blue, top edge brown. Armorial bookplate of Sir George Bull, 3rd Baronet (1906-1986) to front pastedown. Spine rubbed and a little darkened, faint damp stain to top edge, ink inscription to front free endpaper sometime erased, light browning to outer leaves, contents otherwise clean. A very good copy.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom