Beckett, Samuel.. Watt.. Paris Olympia Press ( ), 1953.

Price: US$497.20 + shipping

Description: 254 pp. Original printed wrappers. Collection Melin. - Federman/Fletcher 32. - First Edition. No. 780 of 1100 numbered copies. - Binding with some wear to edges, spine with missing parts on foot and top. Owner`s entry to front flyleaf. Gewicht (Gramm): 254

Seller: Müller & Gräff e.K., Stuttgart, Germany

Beckett, Samuel. Watt. Paris, The Olympia Press 1953, 1953.

Price: US$552.45 + shipping

Description: 1st ed. - Numbered edition in 1100 copies. - This is nr. 881. - (Collection Merlin). - Softcover, good+

Seller: Antiquarian Bookshop Klikspaan, Leiden, Netherlands

Beckett Samuel. Watt. Olympia Press, 1953.

Price: US$680.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The Olympia Press/Paris, 1953. Excelente estado de conservación. Primera edición número del ejemplar 890 de una tirada de 1100 ejemplares. Roce en parte inferior del lomo. 260 gr.

Seller: Eduardo Martínez Moreira, Montevideo, Uruguay

Beckett, Samuel. Watt. The Olympia Press, Paris, 1953.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Limited to 1100 numbered copies for general circulation. This copy not numbered. Small bookplate and signature of early owner. Tiny chip in rear wrapper, but a very good copy of the first edition in English.

Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.

Beckett, Samuel. Watt. Olympia, Paris, 1953.

Price: US$975.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The scarce limited first edition (1100 copies, this one numbered 399) which precedes the first trade printing by 5 years. Considered by many to be Beckett's funniest work it is still a largely misunderstood masterpiece, though destined, I feel sure, to rank one day with 'Finnegans Wake' as one of the great literary achievements of the 20th century. This is a clean bright copy in the publisher's magenta wraps as issued. One longer and one shorter diagonal crease to corners of rear cover; miniscule chips to head and the inevitable creasing to the spine. Bookplate to front free endpaper but no other inscriptions and no foxing; very uncommon in this condition.

Seller: Dr Jeremy Parrott, London, United Kingdom

Beckett, Samuel. Watt. Olympia Press, Paris, 1953.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A very good+/near fine copy a bit toned with very light edge wear and a touch of loss at base at spine -- magenta printed wraps. Despite minor flaws a very nice copy of a fragile and scarce book. Photos available on request. Paperback original, the Olympia Press edition, limited to 1125 copies, this being #105 of 1100 numbered copies. 'Collection Merlin' 254 pp. 'Acheve d'imprimer 31 Aout 1953 sur les presses de l'imprimerie Richard 24, Rue Stephenson, Paris" --colophon. An early title of Olympia Press, the first of their Beckett titles and the true first edition of Watt, which was the second of Beckett's novels to be published in English and not translated into French till 1968. Photos available on request.

Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada

Beckett, Samuel. L'Innommable. Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris, 1953.

Price: US$2750.00 + shipping

Description: Original wrappers, covers spotted, text paper browned as always, unopened. The third novel of Beckett's trilogy. Inscribed "for Austryn Wainhouse / cordially / Sam Beckett / Paris July 1953". A good association. Wainhouse had worked for Olympia Press and was one of the editors of Merlin, publishers of Beckett's "Watt". He was best-known as a translator (of Sade, Bataille, de Beauvoir, etc) and won a National Book Award for translation in 1971. First edition, ordinary paper copy, one of 3000 printed.

Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.