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 		Bachelard, Gaston: L'Intuition de l'instant
Paris: Gonthier, n.d.
Bacon, Francis: Essays and Apothegms of Francis Lord Bacon
London/Felling-on-Tyne: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., n.d.
Inscription: 'S.B. Beckett / Trinity College, Dublin / 1924'
Baedeker, Karl: Paris et ses environs
Paris/Leipzig: Larousse, 1947
Inscription: 'S.B. Beckett'
Bailly, René: Dictionnaire des synonymes
Paris: Larousse, 1947
Barker, J.W.: Teach Yourself Portuguese
London: The English Universities Press, 1968
Notes: corner of page 63 folded down
Bataille, Georges: Madame Edwarda
Paris: Pauvert, 1979
Reading traces on: editorsnote, 9, 10, 11, 12.
Bate, W. Jackson: Samuel Johnson
San Diego/New York/London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, n.d.
Battistini, Yves: Trois contemporains: Héraclite, Parménide, Empédocle
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1961 [1955]
Yves Battistini (ed.)
Notes: Collection Les Essais LXXVIII
Baudelaire, Charles: Les Fleurs du mal
Paris: Payot, 1928 [1926]
Paul Valéry (introduction)
Reading traces on: 7, 237, 308.
Notes: 'Collection Prose et Verse'
on page(s): 7 [zone 1], 237 [zone 1], 308 [zone 1]
Baudelaire, Charles: Œuvres complètes
Paris: N.R.F / Gallimard Pléiade, 1951
Y.-G. Le Dantec (ed.)
Notes: book ribbon at page 94/95, poems 'La Beauté', 'L'Idéal', and 'La Géante'.
Baudelaire, Charles: Les Fleurs du mal
Paris: Le Livre de Poche, 1965
Jean-Paul Sartre (ed.)
Baudelaire, Charles: Le spleen de Paris: petits poèmes en prose
Paris: Le Livre de Poche, 1976 [1972]
Yves Florenne (ed.)
Reading traces on: 187.
Notes:
- the word "Engerer" has been written on the inside of the back cover;
- page 187 folded down: in section "Epilogue"
Beaumarchais: Théâtre choisi
Angers: Éditions Jacques Petit, 1941
Alfred Péron (introduction and notes)
Inscription: A Sam, / Paris 27 Janvier 1942 / [signed]
Reading traces on: 382, 384.
Notes: marginalia: 382 / 384
Beckett, Samuel: Comment c'est
Les Éditions de Minuit,
Inscription: pour / Avigdor et Anne / leur ami / Sam. Beckett / Paris janvier / 1961
Reading traces on: insert.
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Bellow, Saul: Dangling Man
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963
Benstock, Bernard: Critical Essays on James Joyce
Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1985
Bernard Benstock (ed.)
Berenson, Mary: A Self-Portrait from Her Letters & Diaries
New York/London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1983
Barbara Strachey and Jayne Samuels (ed.)
Berkeley, George (Bishop): A New Theory of Vision and Other Select Philosophical Writings
London: J. M. Dent; New York: E. P. Dutton, 1926 [1910]
A.D. Lindsay (ed.)
Reading traces on: 128, 129, 130, 137, 138, 141, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 153, 156, 157, 158, 162, 164, 180, 184, 185, 186, 187, 189, 193, 245, 246, 248, 266, 274, 275, 282.
Notes: Berkeley's Commonplace Book also contains marginalia and markings in green pencil; reference to Geulincx for these particular notes suggests a dating of 1936 or later, unless taken from Windelband, which would make this earlier.
on page(s): 148 [zone 2]
Berkeley, George (Bishop): Berkeley's Commonplace Book
London: Faber, 1930
G. A. Johnston (ed.)
Reading traces on: 4, 6, 9, 10.
Notes:
- Letter to Thomas MacGreevy 23 [April] 1933 (LSB I 154): 'Mindful of Alfieri I tried to read Plutarch, but in vain. Mindful of Alfieri! And Berkeley's Commonplace Book, which Hone recommended as a beginning, and which is full of profound things, and at the same time of a foul (& false) intellectual canaillerie, enough to put you against reading anything more.'
- Cf. also Berkeley's A New Theory of Vision, which also contains marginalia and markings in green pencil.
Berkeley, George (Bishop): Homage to George Berkeley: A Commemorative Issue, Vol. 82
Hodges, Figgis & Co., Ltd., 1953
G. A. Johnston (ed.)
Notes: Hermathena, Vol. 82
Bertin, Léon: La Vie des animaux
Paris: Larousse, 1952 [1950]
Bestermann, Theodore: Voltaire
London/Harlow: Longmans, Green and Co., 1969
Inscription: "for Samuel Beckett / Th. B."
Notes: piece of paper inserted page 374, chapter 29, 'La Pucelle, 1755'
Sainte Bible
New York: Société Biblique Américaine, 1874
David Martin (ed.)
Notes: small scraps of paper inserted page 131 (Numbers V) and 191 (Deut. XXIII-IV)
Beckett quotes verse 13:24 from the Book of Proverbs ('Celui qui ménage sa verge hait son fils' – 'He that spareth his rod hateth his son') in a (later omitted) passage from the French manuscript of Malone meurt on page 63r, and quotes Genesis 1:10 on page 67r of the same manuscript.
Sainte Bible
Paris: 1921
Nouvelle édition revue
Louis Segond (ed.)
Notes: front cover missing
Beckett quotes Genesis 1:10 in the manuscript of Malone meurt (MS-HRC-SB-7-2, page 67r).
La Sacra Bibbia
Roma: Società Biblica Britannica e Forestiera, 1924
Inscription: 'S. B. Beckett / Trinity College / Dublin'
Reading traces on: 27, 52, 56, 57, 816, 819, 820, 822, 824, 830, 846, 1090, 1101, 1115, 1172, 1173.
Notes: All marginalia in blue ink are references to Voltaire's Lettres d'Amabed, notably the footnotes to the Troisième lettre du journal d'Amabed (Van Hulle and Nixon 2013, p. 181).
In the manuscript of En attendant Godot on page 05r, Lévy (Estragon) describes the maps of 'The Holy Land' in the Bible in a way that is a good match with the map in this copy.
Die Bibel: nach der Uebersetzung von Martin Luther
Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1970
Martin Luther (translation)
The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments, Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesty's special command
Oxford: Oxford University Press, n.d.
Inscription: 'This Premium was adjudged to / Samuel Beckett / for Diligence and Attendance / at / Tullow Sunday School / 13 of Dec. 1912 / Revd. G. W. N. Clark'
Reading traces on: 65, 137, 198, 200, 272, 568, 569, 832, 834, 835, 836, 837, 838, 839, 840, 841, 842, 843, 845, 846, 847, 848, 849, 852, 853, 861, 862, 863, 876, 889, 890, 940, 942, 943, 990, 991.
Location: Dublin Local Studies Collection
Notes:
-Also on titlepage: 'Appointed to be read in Churches / Oxford / Printed at the University Press / London: Henry Frowde / and sold by the / Association for Promoting Christian Knowledge / 37 Dawson Street / Dublin'
- The BDMP owes a debt of gratitude to Martha Black and Feargal Whelan for drawing our attention to this volume, and to Máire Kennedy of the Dublin Public City Library for providing scans and making them available to the project. For a further discussion of the reading traces see Van Hulle and Nixon 2013, 173-176.
on page(s): 862 [zone 1]
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
In the manuscript of En attendant Godot on page 05r, Lévy (Estragon) describes the maps of 'The Holy Land' in the Bible in a way that resembles the map in this copy.
Holy Bible: Authorized King James Version
Oxford: Oxford University Press, n.d.
Biely, Andrey: The Silver Dove
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1974
George Reavey (translation and introduction)
Inscription: To Sam / with All the Best [Aries] / Wishes and Love — / George / 11 April 1975
Reading traces on: xv.
Billy, André: Apollinaire
Paris: Seghers, 1956
Bishop, Morris: Petrarch and his World
London: Chatto & Windus, 1964
Bishop, Tom: Le passeur d'océan: Carnets d'un ami américain
Paris: Payot, 1989
Inscription: For Sam / In faithful friendship / as ever - / Tom / Nov. 89.
Blakeney, E. H.: A Smaller Classical Dictionary
London: J. M. Dent; New York: E.P. Dutton, 1923 [1910]
Everyman's Library No 495
Inscription: 'H.V. Limerick / December, 1925'
Notes: adorned ex libris of Bishop of Limerick, 1925
Blanchot, Maurice: L'Entretien infini
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1969
Blanchot, Maurice: Après coup
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1983
Blau, Herbert: Take up the Bodies: Theatre at the Vanishing Point
Urbana, IL: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1982
Inscription: 'For Sam - / A belated view of what no / longer is - with you, as always, / behind the scene. / [signed] / Paris / 6 June 1989'
Blau, Herbert: The Eye of Prey: Subversions of the Postmodern
Bloomington/Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987
Inscription: 'For Sam - / without whom ... ? / [signed] / Paris / Feb. 7, 1989'
Boccaccio, Giovanni: Decamerone, Vol. 3
Livorno: Presso Tommaso Masi, e Comp., 1812
Notes:
- marginalia: [Pencil - underlinings, side markings and marginal notes] 5 / 12 / 20 / 31 / 38 / 41-2 / 46 / 48 / 51 / 54 / 59 / 64 / 72 / 78 / 84 / 87 / 91 / 93 / 101 / 103 / 110 / 117 / 129 / 144 / 147-48 / 151 / 155 / 160 / 164 / 166 / 169 / 174 / 177 / 180 / 188-93 / 198 / 204 / 206 / 211 / 215 / 217 / 224 / 230 / 234 / 237-38 / 241 / 247-48 / 253 / 259 / 262 / 266-67 / 272 / 285 / 291-2 / 295 / 300 / 303-4 / 306 / 308-10 / 312 / 314 / 316 / 318 / 332 //
- only third volume, starting with 'Giornata Sesta';
- stamp on inside cover: 'French Library T.C.D.';
- not all the pages with marginalia have been scanned, and none of the scans have been included here
Böll, Heinrich: Entfernung von der Truppe: Erzählung
Köln/Berlin: Kiepenheuer und Witsch, 1964
Inscription: "For / Samuel Beckett / mit Dank u Verehrung / Heinrich Böll / Nov. 64"
Böll, Heinrich: Geschichten aus zwölf Jahren
Frankfurt, a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1969
Notes: Corner of pages 23, 29, 33, 43, 45, 47, 49, 61, 69, 71, 73, 79, 81, 83, 85 had been folded down and straightened again, corner of page 87 remains folded down.
Bonnard: Bonnard 1867-1947: Drawings, Gouaches, Watercolours
London: Victor Waddington, 1966
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Bonnefoy, Yves: Tout œuvre peint de Mantegna
Paris: Flammarion, 1978
Yves Bonnefoy (ed.)
Niny Garavaglia (ed.)
Bonnefoy, Yves: Quarante-cinq poèmes de Yeats suivis de La Résurrection
Paris: Hermann, 1989
Yves Bonnefoy (introduction and notes)
Inscription: 'pour Samuel Beckett / en hommage / d'admiration et de / sympathie // Yves Bonnefoy'
Notes: bookseller's tag on cover: Booksellers / Stationers / Greene & Co. / 16 Clare Street / Dublin
Boswell: Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887
George Birkbeck Hill (ed.)
Notes:
- bought March 1961 in Brighton;
- little bookseller's tag on inside cover: Greene & Co. Clare Street Dublin.
- piece of paper [torn from a typed letter which incl. the date 18/5/1973] inserted on page 261, note on paper reads: 'Boule d'Or', with adress of 'Pierre' on back, and note to call Horovitz for Tophoven's and Jacoba van Velde's telephone number.
Boswell, Samuel: Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1951 [1950]
Frederick A. Pottle (ed.)
Notes: Attached to page 49, which speaks of Boswell's 'want of women': a colour slide of a man with an owl sitting up on a branch to the left, and a photograph of a family, on reverse 'Copyright of the National Galleries of Scotland', and (hand-written) 'by Henry Singleton'
Botticelli, Sandro: Zeichnungen von Sandro Botticelli zu Dantes Göttlicher Komödie
Berlin: Grote, 1896
F. Lippmann (ed.)
Thierry Bouchard (ed.): Théodore Balmoral, Vol. 2/3
Orléans: 1986
Thierry Bouchard (ed.)
Inscription: Pour Samuel Beckett / avec toute mon admiration. / Thierry Bouchard / [signed] / Orléans [xx].IX.86.
Bouvier, J.B.: Dissertatio in Sextum Decalogi Praeceptum, et Supplementum ad Tractatum de Matrimonio
Paris: Facultatis Theologiae Bibliopolas, 1852
Boyle, Kay: This Is Not a Letter and Other Poems
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1985
Inscription: 'December 3, 1985 / With love to Sam, / Toujours, / Kay / Oakland / California
Reading traces on: 33, 48, 50, 51, 65.
Notes: marginal corrections presumably in Kay Boyle's hand
Boyle, Kay: Life Being the Best and Other Stories
New York: New Directions, 1988
Sandra Whipple Spanier (ed.)
Inscription: 'May 25, 1988 / To beloved Sam, this / book of ancient stories, / which [take] him sixty / years of devotion that / has never faltered. Kay / Oakland / California'
Notes: on page 68 inserted a ticket for Shuttle UK Terminal 1995
Boyle, Kay: Death of a Man
New York: New Directions Books, 1989 [1936]
Burton Hatlen (introduction)
Notes: card inserted: 'with compliments from the author'
Felix Braun (ed.): Beethoven im Gespräch
Wiesbaden: Insel Verlag, 1959
Felix Braun (ed.)
Reading traces on: 48, 61, 63, 69, 72, 77.
Notes: 6 pages have been folded down, pages 48, 61, 63 (section 'Beethoven und Friedrich Rochlitz'), 69, 72 and 77.
Breytenbach, Breyten: Métamortphase
Paris: Grasset, 1987
Inscription: 'Pour Samuel Beckett / ces quelques pas, / de tres loin / (et en titubant) / sur la route que vous / avez tracé. / My admiration / and my best wishes / Breyten Breytenbach / Paris, le 11 mai 1987'
Brittain, Frederick: The Penguin Book of Latin Verse
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962
Brod, Max: Franz Kafka: Souvenirs et Documents
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1945
Hélène Zylberberg (translation)
Pierre Gustave Brunet (ed.): Curiosités Théologiques
Paris: Garnier Frères, Libraires-Éditeurs, n.d. [1884]
Nouvelle édition
Pierre Gustave Brunet (ed.)
Reading traces on: 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13, 23, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 71, 73, 75, 76, 77, 80, 83, 91, 93, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 107, 110, 121, 122, 133, 135, 137, 148, 168, 350, 351.
Notes:
- possibly previous owner's name on cover in pencil;
- front cover loose
Brunschvicg, Leon: Spinoza et ses contemporains
Paris: Librairie Félix Alcan, 1923
Büchner, Georg: Lenz
London: Frontier Press, 1969
Michael Hamburger (translation)
Inscription: 'For Samuel Beckett / in admiration and with / sincere good wishes for / his health / from / Michael Hamburger / Aug 70
Budgen, Frank: James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses
London: Grayson & Grayson, 1937 [1934]
2nd ed.
Inscription: 'For Samuel Beckett / In memory of J.J. / J Schwartz / Brighton May 1, 1956'
Notes: inserted in front of book, Frank Budgen's 'Further Recollections of James Joyce', London: The Shenvall Press, 1955
Bürgel, Bruno H.: Les Mondes lointains
Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1944
Savoir Collection
Paule Montescourt (translation)
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Notes: large sections of book about universe uncut
Burton, Robert: The Anatomy of Melancholy, Vol. 1
London: George Bell & Sons, 1893
A. R. Shilleto (ed.)
A. H. Bullen (introduction)
Inscription: 'for Anne / with love / from Sam / Paris / may 77'
Reading traces on: 85, 86, 91, 92, 93, 109, 117, 165, 192, 205, 214, 279, 283, 285, 298, 308, 343, 346, 348insert, 356, 360, 362, 373, 378, 390, 391, 400, 427, 431, 457, 459, 497.
Location: The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
Burton, Robert: The Anatomy of Melancholy, Vol. 2
London: George Bell & Sons, 1893
A. R. Shilleto (ed.)
A. H. Bullen (introduction)
Reading traces on: 45, 48, 69, 78, 79, 85, 86, 87, 97, 100, 102, 115, 133, 134, 138, 139, 152, 153, 154, 175, 208, 209.
Location: The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
Burton, Robert: The Anatomy of Melancholy, Vol. 3
London: George Bell & Sons, 1893
A. R. Shilleto (ed.)
A. H. Bullen (introduction)
Reading traces on: 282.
Location: The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
Notes: Inscription on inside back cover: 'In [Wm] Alexander 282'.
Buschbeck, Ernst H.: Führer durch die Gemäldegalerie: Mit 184 Abbildungen 4. Auflage
Vienna: Wien Kunsthistorisches Museum, 1936
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Notes: FÜHRER DURCH DIE KUNSTHISTORISCHEN SAMMLUNGEN IN WIEN HERAUSGEGEBEN VOM VEREIN DER MUSEUMSFREUNDE BAND 3
Bushrui, Suheil Badi and Bernard Benstock: James Joyce: An International Perspective
Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire: Colin Smythe, 1982
Irish Literary Studies 10
Inscription: For Samuel Beckett / in humble recognition / of his heroic example: / a beacon light amid / the darkness of the world / [signed]
Notes: second hardback copy also in library, but without inscription
Butlin, Martin: Turner at the Tate
London: The Tate Gallery, 1980
Büttner, Gottfried: Absurdes Theater und Bewusstseinswandel
Berlin-Wilmersdorf: Westliche Berliner Verlagsgesellschaft Heenemann, 1968
Inscription: "und mit sehr herzlichen / Grüßen und Wünschen / geschenkt zur Weinachtszeit 1968 / Gottfried Büttner / Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe, 22. Dezember 68"
Byrne, Patrick: The Wildes of Merrion Square: The Family of Oscar Wilde
London/New York: Staples Press, 1953
Byron: The Poetical Works of Lord Byron
Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, n.d.
Reading traces on: 541.
Notes:
- with the life of Lord Byron by Alexander Leighton;
- page 541 folded down (Childe Harold's Pilgrimage)
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