Chicago Review. Volume 12, Number 2. Summer 1958
University of Chicago, January 1958. First Thus. Paper Back. Sunned spine. Soiling to cover. Wear to exteriors. Pencil underlining on a few pages. First excerpt of Beckett's 'The Unnamable'. More
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Samuel Beckett: his works and his critics;: An essay in bibliography
University of California Press, January 1970. First Edition. Cloth. First/first (US) in heavily darkened, mildly edgeworn dustjacket. Not price clipped. Original price $15 on flap. Some soiling to jacket. Pine green cloth covered boards with gold lettering. Darkening to textblock edges, end pages. Tight binding. Inked side note written in..... More
The Long Sonata of the Dead: A Study of Samuel Beckett
Grove Press, June 1969. Paper Back. Mild wear, yet much better than what one might expect from a 50 year old paperback. Yellowed edges. A crease to spine, but still intact. Text is clean. More
64-Square Looking Glass: Great Games of Chess in World Literature
Times Books / Random House, 1993. Hardcover. In very good dustjacket. Red cloth covered spine with black lettering & red paper covered boards. Tight binding. Clean & sound. More
The Beckett Studies Reader
University Press of Florida, April 1993. Hardcover. "A distinguished gathering of Beckett commentary. . . . All of the critics in Gontarski's collection excel."--Melvin J. Friedman, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee "Original, well thought out, and unique contributions to the field of Beckett scholarship."--Brian Finney, University of Southern California For fifteen..... More
Sails of the Herring Fleet: Essays on Beckett (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)
University of Michigan Press, August 2000. Hardcover. Sails of the Herring Fleet traces esteemed director and theorist Herbert Blau's encounters with the work of Samuel Beckett. Blau directed Beckett's plays when they were still virtually unknown, and for more than four decades has remained one of the leading interpreters of..... More
The New Literature
George Brazziller, Inc., 1959. First Edition. Cloth. First/first U.S. Heavily edgeworn, price clipped dustjacket with rubbing, discoloration. Black & brick red cloth covered boards with darkening & white splotches. Brick red & white lettering on spine. Persian red top stain with stains. Darkened/foxed fore-edge. Faint foxing bottom edge. Tanning to..... More
Beckett's Dying Words: The Clarendon Lectures 1990 (Clarendon Lectures in English)
Oxford University Press, August 1993. First Edition. Cloth. Most people want to live forever. But there is another truth: the longing for oblivion. With pain, wit, and humor, the art of Samuel Beckett variously embodies this truth, this ancient enduring belief that it is better to be dead than alive..... More
Beckett in Black and Red: The Translations for Nancy Cunard's Negro (Irish Literature, History, and Culture)
The University Press of Kentucky, January 2000. First Edition. Cloth. Samuel Beckett's role as translator of Cunard's Negro has traditionally seen as apolitical. In this work Friedman argues that his role resulted from his support for the causes espoused in Negro, racial justice and equality, and the belief that these..... More
The Palimpsests
David R Godine, October 2019. Paper Back. The Palimpsests, originally written in Spanish by Polish newcomer Aleksandra Lun, is a satirical novel about immigration, senses of cultural belonging, and ownership of language: complicated and simple, adopted and native. The book opens with the protagonist, Przesnicki, an Eastern-European immigrant writer, languishing..... More
The Art of Hunger: Essays Prefaces Interviews
Sun & Moon Press, September 1992. Hardcover. In this astonishingly acrobatic work, Paul Auster traces the compulsion to make literature--or art--through essays on Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Paul Celan, Laura Riding, Knut Hamsun, John Ashbury, and other seminal figures of our century. 2nd printing in very good jacket. Green cloth..... More
Laughing Wild and Baby with the Bathwater: Two Plays
Grove Press, January 1994. Trade Paperback. "Laughing wild amid severest woe" perfectly describes the fiercely ironic comedy of Christopher Durang's Laughing Wild (which takes its title from this Thomas Gray quotation via Samuel Beckett) and the previously unpublished Baby with the Bathwater. In Laughing Wild, two comic monologues evolve into..... More
A Confederacy of Dunces
Black Cat / Grove Press, January 1981. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. First Mass Market paperback printing. Well worn cover, mild curling from damp exposure. dog-eared top right corner. Half-inch piece of top left corner of back cover torn off. Internally without markings. 415 pages plus one page list of..... More
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