Beckett Remembering Remembering Beckett: A Centenary Celebration
Arcade Publishing, January 2006. Hardcover. More
Arcade Publishing, January 2006. Hardcover. More
Pegasus Books, February 2009. First Thus. Paper Back. With a tree, a country road, and two tramps waiting haplessly for a Godot who never comes, Samuel Beckett epitomized for theatergoers around the world the at-once comical and terrifying condition of being human in an uncertain universe. He would follow the..... More
Counterpoint LLC, November 2005. Hardcover. 2006 marks the 100th anniversary of Samuel Beckett's birth. To most, he was a brilliant artist who shied away from celebrity and photographers, but to the distinguished painter Avigdor Arikha and his wife, author Anne Atik, Beckett was the close friend with whom they shared..... More
Random House~trade, January 1968. Paper Back. Octavo. 7th printing in paperback. Bumped/bruised base of spine. Unmarked interior. Another one of a kind collection of Beckett's dramatic shorts. [89 pages plus four page list of Grove/Evergreen titles.]. More
Foxrock Books, May 1995. First American. Hardcover. Just before he wrote the classic Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett wrote another play, entitled Eleutheria. Circumstances provided for Waiting for Godot to be produced and to become a masterpiece. Forty years later, Beckett gave the manuscript to his old publisher and the..... More
Grove / Evergreen, 1961. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo. First paperbavck. Slanted spine. Foxing and mild discoloration to cover. Foxing/tanning to verso of cover front & back. Likewise first and last page of textblock. [64 pp.]. More
Grove Press, 1981. Soft Cover. Octavo. Four short pieces: three 'dramatic pieces', and a strange work of prose, 'All Strange Away'. Clean, bright, without markings. [80 pp.]. More
University of Illinois Press, January 1992. Paper Back. Previous owner's name inked verso of front cover. Light pencil underlining and side notes scattered about through text.[260 pages.]. More
Oxford University Press, USA, September 1990. First Thus. Paper Back. Beyond Minimalism explores Beckett's drama of the '70s and '80s, examining the ways in which play text and performance merge through the playwright's poetic idiom. Beginning with Not I and continuing through Catastrophe and What Where, Brater examines the plays..... More
Grove Pr, September 1996. Hardcover. Mel Gussow, the longtime drama critic for The New York Times, has put together a revelatory book of conversations with the famously reticent author and his chief collaborators. In this revealing and poignant collection, Gussow paints a portrait of Samuel Beckett, the novelist and playwright..... More
Simon & Schuster, October 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition with full number line. Very light shelf wear on the jacket. Remainder mark on the bottom edge of the print block. More
Faber Faber Inc, November 1986. Oversized Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Tape-repaired dust jacket. More
Grove Press Inc, January 1970 / 1978. Cloth. 21st printing of this edition. In price-clipped, mildly worn dustjacket with small stain at spine bottom. Navy blue cloth covered boards with silver lettering. Sound binding. Tight binding. Darkened margins. More
Da Capo Press, April 1999. Trade Paperback. Intensely private, possibly saintly, but perhaps misanthropic, Samuel Beckett was the most legendary and enigmatic of writers. Anthony Cronin's biography is a revelation of this mythical figure as fully human and fallible, while confirming his enormous stature both as a man and a...... More
Faber & Faber, January 1986. Trade Paperback. As is. Corner cut on half title page. Some ex-library marks. More
Faber & Faber, July 2000. First Thus. Paper Back. Do you want to know why Beckett has become a figure of such continuing influence and importance in the theater? Are you studying his plays and looking for help with interpretation? Do you teach Beckett and need a reliable guide to..... More
Colin Smythe/Barnes & Noble, December 1988. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In dustjacket with edgewear and small tears. Front flap is clipped., Navy blue cloth with gold lettering along spine. Unmarked interiors.[309 pp.]. More
Oxford University Press, USA, November 1995. First Edition. Cloth. Reaching back in time and across the world, The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre, an authoritative and lavishly illustrated new history, celebrates the stage's greatest achievements over 4,500 years, from festival performances in ancient Egypt to international, multicultural drama in the..... More
Princeton University Press, April 1976. Hardcover. Shakespeare's plays have never had a larger audience than they do in our time. This wide viewing is complemented by modern scholarship, which has verified and elucidated the plays' texts. Nevertheless, Shakespeare's plays continue to be revised. In order to find out how and..... 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
Cambridge University Press, July 1968. Trade Paperback. Much of twentieth-century drama defies the traditional pigeon-holes of tragedy and comedy: the heroes are not straightforwardly heroic; the subject-matter seems at some times grimly realistic and at others nearer to pure fantasy. Professor Styan explains and illuminates the nature of this dark..... More