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Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, English(?) issue, published by Shakespeare and Company in Paris with publisher's rubberstamp: "Made in Great Britain" at lower margin of title page. Small octavo. Printed wrappers. Printed wrappers. Ink owner name on the front flyleaf ("Charles Forman Brown") and linoleum-cut bookplate of musician Max Hughes on verso of half-title page, moderate toning and rubbing at extremities of the wrappers, some creasing on front wrap and toning on the cheap acidic paper, an about very good copy of a fragile publication. Contains Samuel Beckett's essay, "Dante. Bruno. Vico. Joyce" (on Joyce's "Work in Progress"), being Beckett's first appearance in any book. Also contains the first book appearance of extracts from "Work in Progress," by James Joyce, including a passage that was not included in *Finnegans Wake*. Inscribed by Beckett: "for Dan Pope, Samuel Beckett" at the first page of Beckett's contribution, at the top margin of the page. Very uncommon signed.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Description: [3]-194, [2] p. 191 x 140 mm. (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.). Original printed paper wrappers. Copy no. 60 of 96 numbered copies printed on Arches paper. Mogens Boisen's copy (the Danish translator of Ulysses) inscribed to him by Sylvia Beach, and with two letters from him to a former owner, explaining the circumstances. Small chip from rear wrapper edge, light creasing on front wrapper, otherwise a fine copy. In a folding box, with the announcement. "Dante.Bruno. Vico.Joyce" published here constitutes Samuel Beckett's first appearance in print.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.