Unnamable, Signed (5 results)

Audio Book (CD). Condition: New. New in shrinkwrap. UPC: 687802108815. Signed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condition: very good(-). First. Translated from the French by the Author. 179p. small 8vo, cloth backed boards; spine sunned. New York: Grove Press, (1958), First Edition in English Specially bound, limited edition of 26 lettered copies of which this is copy number F. Signed by Beckett, and with a penciled presentation on the flyleaf from Barney Rossett, the publisher. Pages 113 -120 are slightly rough at the fore-edges, otherwise a good, clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Grove Press Edition 1959 stated on the copyright page, INSCRIBED by Samuel Beckett on the title page. First collected edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom-made collector's clamshell case.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Trade Editions. Three volumes, all first American trade edition, first printings. All signed by Samuel Beckett on the title pages. [vii], 241, [vi], 120, [2; ads], [x], 179 pp. Malloy is bound in publisher's charcoal grey cloth with spine lettered in gilt, Malone Dies is bound in coarse linen lettered in brown; lacking the scarce glassine jacket, The Unnamable is bound in publisher's dark grey cloth stamped in gilt. All generally Near Fine with light wear to spine ends, and toning to jacket spine of Molloy; toning and foxing to cloth of Malone Dies with offsetting at endsheets and former owner's stamp at front free endpaper; light toning and foxing to recto of jacket of The Unnamable, heavier to blindside. Fantastic signed copies of a trilogy of anti-novels that dismantled traditional notions of plot and narrative. The author wrote them in French, attempting to liberate his prose from convention and follow in the foot-steps of his mentor, James Joyce. Each work, in its own absurdist way, blazed the trail for novels as an artistic medium, early ventures into what would eventually be called postmodern literature. Federman & Fletcher 374.1, 375.01, 377.1.

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First. First American Edition Presentation copy inscribed to Beckett's British publisher John Calder "John Friendship Sam December 1959" Calder and Beckett were great friends, and Calder was the primary publisher of Beckett's prose in the UK following the triumph of Waiting for Godot in 1955 An important item for any Beckett collection - BooksCurious. signed by author.