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Samuel Beckett. Murphy (limited signed edition no 3/100). Grove Press, 1957.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "Murphy" by Samuel Beckett. New York: Grove Press, [1957]. First American edition, copy 3 of 100 examples, signed by Beckett. Publisher's cloth-backed paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered, in the remains of the publisher's acetate. 8 x 5 1/4 inches (20.25 x 15.5 cm); [vi], 282 pp. Spine a bit faded, gilt dulled, paper of boards browned at the head of the volume, the acetate with substantial tears and losses
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Beckett, Samuel. Murphy (Signed Limited Edition). Grove Press, New York, 1957.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Cloth spine over paper-covered boards. 282 pp. First American edition of this novel that was first published in 1938. Limited edition, number 15 of only 100 specially bound and SIGNED copies. A clean very good example.in unprinted acetate dustwrapper.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. Murphy (Signed). Grove Press, New York, 1957.
Price: US$3600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Oatmeal clothbound book in price-intact dustwrapper. First US edition of the author's first novel. First published in 1938. 282 pp. A handsome very good plus copy with a few minor spots to the top edge, else a clean unmarked copy. The price intact dustwrapper is lightly toned at spine, else a near fine example. SIGNED by the author on the title page. While there was a small limited signed edition of this book of 100 copies put out by Grove Press, it is quite uncommon to find the trade edition signed.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. Murphy a Novel. Grove Press (1957), New York, 1957.
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 282p octavo, clothbound issue. Translated from the French by Patrick Bowles in collaboration with the author. Fine in very good or better dust jacket lightly toned on the spine and a small chip at the crown. Inscribed by Samuel Beckett on the title page to author Dan Pope, "for Dan Pope with all good wishes Samuel Beckett 16.2.88" Additionally signed by Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset beneath the publisher's imprint. Rarely encountered signed by Beckett.
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
BECKETT, Samuel. Murphy. Grove Press, New York, 1957.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition, limited hardcover issue. Octavo. 282pp. Quarter cloth and paper-covered boards. Binding has slight tanning on boards, a near fine copy in publisher's very good or better unprinted acetate dust jacket as issued with a shallow chip at the crown and a short tear. Copy number 20 of 100 numbered specially bound, copies Signed by Samuel Beckett on the limitation page. A publisher's copy, with publisher Barney Rosset's note: "Publisher's Copy, Barney Rosset, Grove Press" written in his ink holograph on the front flyleaf. An elusive title in any dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
BECKETT, Samuel. MURPHY [Publisher's Copy]. Grove Press [1957], New York, 1957.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Description: Cloth-backed boards. Beckett's first published novel, first published in England in 1938. Copy #22 of only 100 numbered copies SIGNED by the author and specially bound in gilt-stamped brown cloth and tan boards. Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset's copy with the following in his hand on the front endpaper: "publisher's copy/Barney Rosset - GROVE PRESS." Rosset introduced American readers to numerous significant writers, including Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, and Stoppard. He led a successful legal battle to publish the uncensored version of D. H. Lawrence's novel LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER, and later was the American publisher of Henry Miller's controversial novel TROPIC OF CANCER. The right to publish and distribute Miller's novel in the United States was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1964, in a landmark ruling for free speech and the First Amendment. Near Fine without dustwrapper, as issued
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.