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BECKETT, Samuel.. Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates.. Paris: Europa Press,, 1935.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: [36 pp]. Some uneven offsetting to rear cover, else very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 250 numbered copies (this is copy #7). Though not called for in this state, SIGNED by Beckett on the title page. Federman & Fletcher 22.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
BECKETT, Samuel. Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates. Europa Press, Paris, 1935.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: Small, thin 4to, original printed buff wrappers. A very fine copy, rare signed, preserved in a half-morocco slipcase. A very fine copy, rare signed, preserved in a half-morocco slipcase First edition of Beckett's second book of poetry. Although not called for, this copy is signed by Beckett in a bold contemporary hand on the title-page and is numbered "28" by hand on the colophon page. The numbers on the colophons of the ordinary edition on Alfa paper were ink-stamped, suggesting that this may have been a special copy.
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
BECKETT, Samuel. ECHO'S BONES AND OTHER PRECIPITATES. Europa Press, Paris, 1935.
Price: US$9375.00 + shipping
Description: Original tan wraps with front cover lettered in black. One of only 250 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered and one of Beckett's retained copies. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page to Richard Seaver, chief editor of Grove Press, and his wife Jeannette: "For/Dick & Jeannette/with love from Sam/Sept. 88." Seaver was one of three young publishers who created Merlin Press in the early 1950s as a vehicle to publish and promote Beckett. Outstanding Association copy. Near Fine and scarce when signed
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Simple unprinted bound wrappers in printed paper dustwrapper. Unpaginated. Becket''s second book of poems. A clean very good copy. This is Copy I of XXV special copies SIGNED by Beckett and printed on Normandy Vellum. Exceptionally rare thus. Includes Beckett's bold signature from his early years.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.