Beckett, Samuel (Allan Kaprow). Malone Dies. Grove Press, 1956.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Allan Kaprow's copy, with his ownership signature on the half title page--visible in photo. Book interior is as new. Faded spine. Bent lower front tip. Back cover has some toning and some faint staining--visible in photo.

Seller: Dela Duende Books, Palm Desert, CA, U.S.A.

Beckett, Samuel. Malone Dies (Signed). Grove Press, New York, 1956.

Price: US$3000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo. Oatmeal clothbound book in clear acetate wrapper. 119 pp. A novel by the author of Molloy and Happy Days. Cloth covers are lightly soiled and darkened at the edges. SIGNED by the author and uncommon thus. With a prior ownership stamp on the front endpaper. The clear acetate wrapper is splitting at spine.

Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.

BECKETT, Samuel. Malone Dies. Grove Press, New York, 1956.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First American edition and first edition in English, hardcover issue. Translated from the French by the author. Octavo. 120pp. Tan cloth. Spine a little toned, very good or better in very good publisher's acetate dust jacket with the original printed price on the front flap of jacket, and with a tear on the rear panel and a few small chips at the extremities. Limited to 500 numbered copies. This is copy number 166. Inscribed by Beckett on the title page: "for Dan Pope from Sam Beckett." Additionally Signed by Barney Rosset, publisher of Grove Press. An increasingly scarce title in the limited issue, in original acetate dust jacket, and especially uncommon when signed by Beckett.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

BECKETT, Samuel.. Malone Dies.. Grove Press, New York., 1956.

Price: US$4846.29 + shipping

Description: First edition in English, paperback issue in the Evergreen series, simultaneous with the hardback. Octavo. pp [vi], 120. Wrappers.Family copy: presentation copy from the author, inscribed by him on the half-title page: ''To John and Vera, affectionately, Sam. Paris, July 1956''. The recipients are the author's cousin and his wife. This is an early inscription, as those usually encountered date from the Seventies and Eighties.Some pencilled markings to margins of first few pages. Ink mark to bottom margin of page 1. Covers rubbed, dusty and slightly creased. Good only in custom-made folding box.

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