Grove Press, January 1969. Paper Back. Octavo; two small stains inside on half title page and a few small neat ink notes on 'previously published' last page of book. First printing, paperback original. (95 pp.). More
Grove Press Inc., 1981. First American. Cloth. First/first in very good dust jacket. White cloth spine with black lettering & black paper covered boards. Some lean to spine. Clean & without markings. More
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
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
John Calder, 1965. Cloth. Soiling/darkening to edges of jacket. Also mild rubbing & edgewear with chipping to front panel at fold. Soiling at bottom textblock edge. Otherwise clean sound, without interior markings. More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. In very good dust jacket. More
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
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
W. W. Norton & Company, November 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. One of the most original stylists of the 20th century, Schulz's masterpiece Messiah has captured the literary imagination of a generation of writers. Exploring the mythical and pyschological layers of Schulz's life, this biography offers an insight into this legend..... More
Barnes and Noble, October 1989. Hardcover. Jack B. Yeats was the son of portrait painter John Butler Yeats and younger brother of the poet William Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in Sligo, which remained a permanent source of inspiration for his painting. He studied art in London and soon..... More
