BECKETT Samuel. Nouvelles et Textes Pour Rien. , 1955.

Price: US$1607.96 + shipping

Description: First edition. Small 8vo., original wrappers, printed in black and blue. Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit. Signed by the author on the title page. Number 933 of 1100 copies printed. The author's name is incorrectly printed as 'Samuel Feckett' on the header of page 104; a disgruntled typesetter, perhaps. Minimally creased at the 'yapp' edges, otherwise a fine copy, uncut.

Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom

BECKETT, Samuel.. Nouvelles et Textes Pour Rien.. Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris., 1955.

Price: US$1865.24 + shipping

Description: First combined edition. One of fifty numbered hors commerce copies on Vélin, out of a total limited issue of 1185 copies. Octavo. 221 pages. Wrappers.Presentation copy from the author to the French art historian Patrick Waldberg, inscribed on the half-title page: ''pour Patrick et Lin avec son amitié - Sam Beckett - Paris 1955''. Waldberg was a member of the Surrealist Movement and author of several books on the subject.Spine and cover edges tanned. Yapp covers chipped at bottom edges. Protruding edges of two pages nicked. Good.

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

BECKETT, Samuel.. Nouvelles et textes pour rien.. Paris Les Editions de Minuit, 1955.

Price: US$3327.50 + shipping

Description: First edition, first impression, one of 1100 numbered copies, from a total edition of 1130, inscribed by the author; 8vo; publisher's white wrappers printed in black and blue, wrappers rather used and marked, with some wear to the backstrip. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the half title page, 'for John and Vera affectionately Sam. Paris, Nov, 1955'. The recipients were Beckett's cousin and his wife. Nouvelles et textes pour rien represented a key transitional stage in Beckett's prose writings. It marks the end of the earlier, more comedic work, heralding the harsher more obviously troubling later pieces such as 'Comment C'Est' and the 'Foirades'. Presentation copies of this intimacy are uncommon.

Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom