Samuel Beckett
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 		Kant, Immanuel: Werke, Vol. XI
Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1921
Ernst Cassirer (ed.)
Reading traces on: 5, 13, 22, 28, 30, 46, 68, 97, 109, 135, 137, 140, 142, 144, 145, 149, 156, 157, 159, 163, 164, 165, 169, 179, 181, 207, 208, 218, 222, 242, 244, 247, 251, 259, 261, 264, 265, 276, 278, 281, 284, 295, 305, 316, 333, 334, 339, 340, 343, 344, 347.
Location: The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
Notes:
- 11 volumes;
- inserted at the back is a four-page carbon copy of a typed list with all the titles of works included in the eleven volumes (with their original date of publication)
on page(s): 5 [zone 1]
Nicola Zingarelli (ed.): Vocabolario della lingua italiana
Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli, 1954
Nicola Zingarelli (ed.)
Inscription: [Bxxxingaulli]
Ussher, Arland: Sages & Schoolmen: Philosophers from Pythagoras to Eckhart
Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1967
Inscription: for Sam / from Arland / Xmas '77
Egan, Desmond: Poems for Peace
Dublin: AFRI [Action from Ireland], 1986
Seán MacBride (introduction)
Inscription: 'April 1986 / For Sam Beckett / on his 80th birthday / '... our valiant necessary / wanderer to the edges of / this interpreted world' / with admiration and love / [signed]
Notes: signed typescript of the poem 'Echo's Bones' (For Sam Beckett on his Eightieth birthday) inserted in front of book
Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Schriften, Vol. 1
Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1960
Inscription: inside cover: 'RENATE HANDKE, / To Samuel Beckett / Germany, 9-25-67'
flyleaf: "Nicht wie die Welt ist, / ist das Mystische, / sondern, daß sie ist..." / (L. Wittgenstein)
"Ich hätte dieses [Werk] / [gerne für Elise Gottes] / [geschrieben] ...." / (L. Wittgenstein, / "The Brown Book")
Reading traces on: 24, 26, 185, 278insertrecto, 278insertverso.
Notes: The annotations appear to have been made by Renate Handke; only a sample of the annotated pages has been made.
Otto, Emil: German Conversation-Grammar; Method Gaspey-Otto-Sauer for the Study of Modern Languages
Heidelberg: Julius Groos, 1930
Reading traces on: 79.
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: Die Märchen der Brüder Grimm
Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1918
Notes:
- no marking next to 'So geht's in der Welt';
- Foxrock Cooldrinagh letterpaper inserted on page 223 ('Dornröschen'), vol.1;
- foodwrapper inserted page 49 vol. 2 - 'Der Geist im Glas'
Hölderlin, Friedrich: Sämtliche Werke
Leizpig: Insel Verlag, [1926]
Inscription: 'SB / 24/12/37'
Reading traces on: 62, 87, 88, 89, 90, 440, 441, 442, 445, 453, 454, 466, 467, 469, 471, 472.
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Figueiredo, José Nunes de and António Gomes Ferreira: Compêndio de Gramàtica Portuguesa
Lisbon: Livraria sá da Costa Editora, 1968
Reading traces on: 23, 25, 47, 63, 79, 85, 92, 137, 145.
Notes:
- bookseller's stamp;
- corner of page 155 folded down at some point
Joyce, James: Exiles: A Play in Three Acts
London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1918
Inscription: 'S.B. Beckett'
Reading traces on: 1, 6, 8, 10, 14, 17, 98, 100, 102, 109, 122, 125, 133, 136.
Yeats, William Butler: The Wind Among the Reeds
London: Elkin Mathews, 1943
4th ed.
Inscription: For Sam on his / eightieth birthday, / April 1986. / With love & admiration / Katharine Worth / (August November) 1986
Reading traces on: 18, 34, 40, 52, 74.
Notes: date seems to be 1943, but title page says MDCCCCIII. The marginalia in this book are unlikely to be Beckett's.
Atik, Anne: Words in Hock: Poems
London: Enitharmon Press, 1974
Inscription: For Sam, / the onlie, / Love, / Anne / Paris, August. 1974.
Notes: 500 copies, plus 30 containing original signed etching by Avigdor Arikha.
Holy Bible: The Comprehensive Teacher's Bible
London: S. Bagster and Sons, n.d.
Reading traces on: OT_1, OT_2, OT_4, OT_6, OT_26, OT_40, OT_41, OT_73, OT_74, OT_103, OT_104, OT_165, OT_169, OT_170, OT_171, OT_174, OT_222, OT_372, OT_386, OT_435, OT_463, OT_464, OT_489, OT_510, OT_513, OT_535, OT_547, OT_548, OT_549, HELPS_17, NT_1, NT_24, NT_39, NT_40, NT_64, NT_65, NT_70, NT_85, NT_117, NT_118, NT_128, NT_133, NT_137, NT_138, NT_139, NT_140, NT_158, NT_159, NT_160, NT_161, NT_162, NT_169, NT_171, NT_174, NT_175, NT_177.
Notes:
- corner of page 177 folded down;
- small photograph postcard inserted at page 426 (Ecclesiastes vii — xii);
- ribbon at 180 Revelation VII-XI
Corneille, Pierre: La Galerie du palais
Manchester: Manchester University Press; London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1920
Thomas B. Rudmose-Brown (ed.)
Inscription: 'Samuel B. Beckett / Trinity College / Dublin - / Michaelmas Term - 1923'
Reading traces on: 7, 8, 52, 57, 60, 68, 75, 79, 85.
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Tasso, Torquato: Gerusalemme liberata
Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1923
6th ed.
Inscription: Samuel B. Beckett / May 1925
Reading traces on: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 30, 31, 54, 55.
Notes: The book is heavily annotated, whereby two modes discernible (similar to other TCD books): ink, black and blue pen, and pencil underlining and annotation tend to be translations of specific words/lines; coloured pencil tend to be underlining and crosses against passages, ie contextual annotation. Annotations continue to the end of Canto X, after that, nothing. Sample scans of pages 2-9 made.
Isherwood, Christopher: The Berlin Stories
New York: New Directions, 1954
Lafenestre, George: Molière
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1909
Reading traces on: 34, 35, 36, 100.
Notes: front cover missing
Scève, Maurice: Délie: Object de plus haulte vertu
Paris: Hachette, 1916
Eugène Parturier (ed.)
Reading traces on: vii, viii, ix, x, xii, xiii, xiv, xix, xvi, xx, xxi, xxii, xxiii, xxiv, xxix, xxv, xxvi, xxvii, xxxiii, xxxv, xxxvi, xxxviv, 3, 5, 8, 11, 13, 16, 17, 18, 20, 23, 24, 38, 47, 48, 50, 57, 64, 67, 69, 75, 76, 79, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 97, 99, 109, 110, 113, 114, 124, 140, 146, 147, 148, 149, 152, 154, 157, 159, 160, 171, 175, 176, 177, 182, 183, 196, 197, 210, 211, 216, 217, 220, 222, 226, 236, 237, 244, 247, 258, 266, 267, 270, 280, 284, 303, 305.
Location: The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
Renard, Jules: Le Journal de Jules Renard 1887–1910, Vol. 1
Paris: François Bernouard, 1927
Reading traces on: 8, 28, 34, 38, 39, 43, 50, 55, 59, 60, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 81, 82, 89, 91, 92, 98, 100, 101, 103, 104, 105, 108, 111, 114, 115, 117, 119, 122, 125, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 136, 140, 141, 147, 162, 163, 165, 166, 168, 170, 171, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 179, 180, 182, 192, 193, 194, 197, 198, 199, 202, 211, 214, 216, 223, 243, 262, 275, 278, 282, 303, 304, 310, 311, 314, 315, 317, 318, 326, 355, 356.
Notes: 4 volumes
- volume 1: 1887–1896; volume 2: 1897–1901; volume 3: 1902–1905; volume 4: 1906–1910;
- volume 1 for the set: Number 752 of 3075 copies;
- volume 1: corner of bottom page 28 has been folded down at some point
Quint, Léon–Pierre: Marcel Proust, sa vie, son œuvre, suivi de: Le Comique et le mystère chez Proust
Paris: Simon Kra, 1928 [1925]
rev. ed.
Proust, Marcel: À la recherche du temps perdu: Le Temps retrouvé **
Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1929
Reading traces on: 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 34, 40, 41, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 59, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 72, 73, 77, 79, 80, 81, 90, 98, 100, 101, 104, 110, 114, 125, 168, 172, 174, 177, 178, 227, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 251, 256, 257, 258, 260, 261, lastpage.
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Verlaine: Œuvres poétiques complètes
Paris: Gallimard Pléiade, 1968 [1962]
Reading traces on: insert.
Notes:
- book ribbons at 722 and 818;
- corner of page 658 has been folded down in past;
- an insert contains first lines of Verlaine, together with the classification as given in the book, ie F.G. = Fetes Galantes, S= Sagesse, P.S. = Poemes saturniens
Nadeau, Maurice: Gustave Flaubert écrivain
Paris: Denoël, 1969
Dossiers des Lettres Nouvelles
Inscription: A Samuel Beckett / avec l'affectueuse admiration / de Maurice Nadeau
Dante Alighieri: La Divine comédie
Paris: Collection des Grands Classiques Français et Etrangers, n.d.
Artaud de Montor (translation)
Reading traces on: 34, 37, 41, 42, 43, 44.
Notes: - page 395 has been folded down in past
Molière: Théâtre complet, Vol. 2
Paris: Bibliothèque Hachette, n.d.
Inscription: S. B. Beckett / July 1926
Reading traces on: 206, 207, 212, 234, 257, 258, 259, 268, 314, 315.
Notes:
- volume III is missing;
- marginalia: volume 2: from La Princesse d'Élide: 206-207 / 212 / 234; from Tartuffe: 257-9 / 268 / 314-5