BECKETT, Samuel.. Still.. M'Arte Edizioni, Milano., 1974.

Price: US$3202.16 + shipping

Description: First edition. Folio. Loose gatherings in wrappers, board folder and slipcase. Printed on handmade card. The original manuscript is reproduced in facsimile; this is signed at the end by the author. Then comes the printed text in Italian and English. The translation is by Luigi Majno. Three coloured abstract etchings signed and numbered by Stanley William Hayter. Abraham Jacob Leventhal writes biographical pieces on the author and the artist; these are also in dual-language texts.Number IX of fourteen hors commerce ad personam copies, the etchings also being numbered IX/XIV. This copy was given to Marion Boyars and has her name printed in the colophon. She and John Calder had of course been Samuel Beckett's chief publishers in the U.K.The slipcase is falling apart and the topstrip is missing. The contents are fine.

Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom