Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Samuel Beckett. Watt. The Olympia Press, 1958.
Price: US$32.48 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1958. No Edition Remarks. 278 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Beckett, Samuel. WATT Traveller's Companion Series. The Olympia Press, Paris, 1958.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: 280 pp. Traveller's Companion Series edition, issued in hardcover. Originally published by The Olympia Press as part of the Collection Merlin in 1953. Kearney-Carroll 5.95.1. This copy bears an attractive, abstract bookplate signed 'Si's drawing '55 Ann's books'. Printed boards. Some tanning to spine, minor soiling and ink stains to covers. Mild foxing to top- and fore-edges, rubbing to head and foot of spine Former owner's name, bookplate. Else very good
Seller: Alta-Glamour Inc., Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel:. Watt.. Paris, The Olympia Press, 1958.
Price: US$66.29 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 278 S. The Traveller's Companion Series. Auf dem Titelblatt befindet sich eine handschriftliche Vorbesitzereintragung. Die Kapitale sind leicht bestoßen. Der Kopfschnitt ist ergraut und fleckig. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500 Kl.-8° Klein-Oktav, Hardcover/Pappeinband
Seller: Versandantiquariat Boller, Staufenberg, Germany
Beckett, Samuel. Watt. Olympia Press, 1958.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Originally issued in wrappers by the Olympia Press in 1953 and limited to 1,100 copies. Kearney #171. 12mo. - over 6 3/4 in. - 7 3/4 in. 278pp, bound in pale green cloth with a black spine label and an inset title label on the front cover. Light fading to the cloth along the top, soiling to the cloth in place, and light foxingto the top and fore-edge of the pages, else a Very Good copy; the pictorial dust jacket has edgewear and one closed tear to the rear panel, else Very Good.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. Watt. The Olympia Press, Paris, 1958.
Price: US$98.00 + shipping
Description: Light foxing to first few pages, 2 cm piece missing from top of dust jacket.
Seller: Halper's Books, Tel Aviv, Israel
Beckett, Samuel. Watt: A Novel. The Olympia Press, Paris, France, 1958.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Some edge wear to dust jacket particularly at top and bottom of spine and at corners; previous owner's name has been covered over on front end paper with black felt pen; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; dust jacket is now protected by a mylar cover; 280 pages
Seller: Hourglass Books, vancouver, BC, Canada
Samuel Beckett. Watt. The Olympia Press/The Traveller's Companion, Paris, 1958.
Price: US$123.67 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Original glossy blue illustrated dust-jacket, sunned along the spine with a little wear to the top edge but otherwise clean and bright and very tidy. Book bound in sage green cloth with titles on black and gold title plates on the front and spine, unblemished. Contents unmarked, appearing and feeling unused.
Seller: David's Bookshop, Letchworth BA, Letchworth Garden City, HERTS, United Kingdom
Beckett, Samuel. WATT. The Traveller's Companion Series. The Olympia Press, Paris, 1958.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. Second edition, typographic border to title-page printed in green, 4 lines of musical notation at end of text. 12mo. 279pp. Green cloth is sunned on spine. Book is lightly cocked. Dust jacket is sunned on spine and edge and has some light edge wear and chips. Ownership signature on fly-leaf.
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. Watt. Olympia Press, Paris, 1958.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good, bound in full cloth, bright red end papers, with a Good dust jacket. Minor edge wear to jacket, top corner of jacket rear panel has been clipped. No markings to interior. 12mo, 7 1/4"h x 4 3/4"w.
Seller: Evolving Lens Bookseller, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Beckett (Samuel).. Watt. Olympia Press, The Travellers Companion Series,, 1958.
Price: US$202.91 + shipping
Description: Spine just a little sunned, otherwise a very nice copy in dust-wrapper which is very slightly worn at the extremities
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
BECKETT, Samuel.. Watt.. The Olympia Press, Paris., 1958.
Price: US$322.07 + shipping
Description: First trade edition and the first hardback, the 1953 edition having been limited and issued in wrappers. Traveller's Companion series. Small octavo. 279 pages.Head and tail of spine lightly bumped. Near fine in very good indeed dustwrapper a bit rubbed at the edges.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Beckett, Samuel.. Watt.. The Olympia Press, Paris, 1958.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. In the publisher's Traveler's Companion series. A Fine copy in pale green paper covered boards with paste-on labels to spine and front cover, red facing endpapers, in a Fine glossy laminated purple, green and red dustwrapper, trace rubbing to spine-ends, and minimal fading to spine. 279pp. In English. Nice copy. Nobel Prize winner. Q10211
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Samuel Beckett. Watt. The Olympia Press, Paris, 1958.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine first Traveller's Companion Series edition. Pages clean and unmarked. Some minor age-toning to edges and spine. Some very slight bumping to spine ends. Minor cocking to spine. Some light rubbing to title on spine. Near fine dust jacket. Not clipped. Some wear to spine ends and edges. Some fading to spine. Some creasing and age-toning to top of folds. A lovely copy of the rather scarce Traveller's Companion Series edition.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
Beckett, Samuel. Watt. Olympia Press, 1958.
Price: US$354.27 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1958 The Olympia Press Hardcover 1st Edition 1st Impression. Near Fine clean tight binding in very good dustjacket. An excellent copy of the Olympia "Traveller's Companion" edition. Dustjacket has had a few small repairs over its lifetime.
Seller: MacKellar Art & Books, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Price: US$354.27 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Publisher's green cloth, with black title labels to upper cover and spine, in the pictorial dust-jacket. A fine copy in a like jacket. Originally published in paper wrappers and issued in a limited edition in Paris in 1953, this is the first trade edition of Watt, and the first that was sold in the UK, where it was distributed by Zwemmer.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Beckett, Samuel.. WATT.. The OLYMPIA PRESS., Paris, 1958.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First hardcover edition. The Traveller's Companion series. Fine in near fine dust jacket. (Spine on dust jacket sunned, though still perfectly readable. ) ; 5" x 7 1/4"; 279 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. Watt. The Olympia Press., 1958.
Price: US$386.71 + shipping
Description: p.p. 279. First trade edit. Pristine in blue red and green pictorial D.J.
Seller: Healy Rare Books, Galway, Ireland
Beckett, Samuel. Watt. The Olympia Press (1958), Paris, 1958.
Price: US$2800.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 280p 12mo. Second edition in English and the first cloth bound English-language edition. Green cloth boards with publisher's printed spine and cover labels. A little cocked, else near fine in very good or better dust jacket with a few nicks at the extremities. Inscribed by Beckett to Tara MacGowran, daughter of Beckett actor Jack MacGowran "For Tara with love from Sam" on the title page
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.