Samuel Beckett
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Cafferty, Bernard: Spassky's 100 Best Games
London: B. T. Batsford, 1972
Carré, L.: Éléments de grammaire anglaise
Paris: Librairie Vuibert, 1928
Reading traces on: 8*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: previous owner's name
Catalogue: Katalog der Modernen Galerie: mit 48 Abbildungen
Berlin: Buchdruckerei der Wilhelm und Bertha V. Baensch Stiftung, Dresden and Julius Bard, Verlag für Literatur und Kunst, G. M. B. H., 1930
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Reading traces on: 48, backcover*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: Herausgegeben im Auftrage des Ministeriums für Volksbildung
Catalogue: Catalogue of Pictures and other Works of Art in the National Gallery of Ireland and the National Portrait Gallery
Dublin: Wood Printing Works, Ltd., 1928
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Inscription: Samuel Beckett 6, Clare Street – Dublin
Reading traces on: 46*, 81, 99, 104, 105*, 114, 115, 116, 174, 176, 193*, 224*, 227*, 259*, 277*, 288*, 301*, 309*, 310*, 311*, 326*, 341*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: Printed for the Stationary Office
Catalogue: Katalog des Städtischen Museums zu Erfurt
Erfurt: 1924
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Notes: Mittelalterliche Sammlung Gemäldegalerie / Vorwort Dr. W. Kaesbach. Gebr. Richters Verlangsanstalt
Catalogue Beaux-Arts: Sciences Humaines
Paris: Hermann, 1989
Célice, Pierre: Célice le cancre: reproductions de ses travaux
Paris: Les Editions de la Gamelle, n.d.
Céline, Louis Ferdinand: D'un château l'autre
Paris: Gallimard, 1969 [1957]
Folio
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand: Nord
Paris: Gallimard, 1960
Céline, Louis Ferdinand: Rigodon
Paris: Gallimard, 1973 [1969]
Folio
Chaamba, Abdallah: Le vieillard et l'enfant
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1954
Chamfort: Maximes et anecdotes
Monaco: Éditions du Rocher, 1950 [1944]
2nd ed.
Reading traces on: tp1*, 21, 25, 28, 31, 35, 39, 42. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: marginalia: on title page, written in black felt pen, are page numbers, which correspond to pages on which there are lines down the side of specific maxims: 21, 25, 28, 31, 35, 39, 42. [cf. SB's translations of Chamfort].
Chekhov, Anton: Plays
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1959
Elisaveta Fen (translation and introduction)
Reading traces on: 187.
Notes: - includes Ivanov, The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Uncle Vania, Three Sisters, and three short plays. - scrap of paper inserted at page 159 [The Seagull] with note '4256 7080'; - page 187 folded down, opening page of Uncle Vania
Chekhov, Anton: Plays
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1980 [1959]
Elisaveta Fen (translation and introduction)
Notes: includes Ivanov, The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Uncle Vania, Three Sisters, and three short plays
Chekhov, Anton and Maxime Gorki: Correspondance d'Anton Tchékhov et Maxime Gorki
Paris: Les éditeurs français réunis, 1972
Chekhov, Anton: Tchekhov, l'essentiel
Paris: J'ai lu, 1963
Reading traces on: 282*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Cherbury, Edward Lord Herbert: The Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Written by Himself
 Edinburgh: John Ballantyne and Co.; London: John Murray, 1809
2nd ed.
Reading traces on: 37*, 47*, 70, 111*, 159*, 226*, 228*, 231*, 232*, 236*, 238*, 240*, 243*, 245*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: - annotations probably not in SB's hand; - Ex Libris Book Plate: 'Rt. Hon. Sir John [Rolt?]'; - bookseller's sticker: 'William George's Sons, Ltd., Bristol'
Chernev, Irving: The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Modern Chess Strategy
London: Faber & Faber, 1965
Chesterfield, Lord: Letters, Sentences & Maxims
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1881
6th ed.
Sainte-Beuve (critical essay)
Inscription: 'Samuel Beckett'
Notes: - little bookseller's tag on inside cover: Greene & Co. Clare Street Dublin
Christ, Yvan and G. Franceschi: Les cryptes mérovingiennes de l'abbaye de Jouarre
Paris: Éditions d'histoire et d'art, 1966
Chuquet, M.A.: J.-J. Rousseau
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1893
Reading traces on: 54, 129, backcover*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: book is missing front and back cover, and the first part of the book; begins on page 17
Cioran, E.M.: Aveux et anathèmes
Paris: Gallimard Arcades, 1986
Inscription: 'Pour Sam et Suzanne / Beckett / L'avantage considérable / de ce genre d'exercise est / de m'avoir pour toujours dégoûté d'écrire. / Vives amitiés. / [signed]'
Cioran, E.M.: De l'inconvénient d'être né
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1973
Les Essais CLXXXVI
Inscription: 'Pour Sam et Suzanne Beckett / J'ai voulu écrire un livre / qui puisse être lu par les / concierges ... J'y suis parvenu / hélas! // avec ma très vive / amitié / [signed]' 'Paris le 9 Déc. 1973 // Comme vous le souhaitiez, / j'ai reproduit ici exactement / la dédicace. / Merci pour la soirée de / samedi. / J'ai cherché toute la nuit, / bien entendu sans succès, / un équivalent français / de lessness / [arrow to next page] / lundi matin / Je viens de protester chez Gallimard. / On m'a répondu qu'à Paris / la distribution ne se faisait / pas par la poste et qu'il y / avait de ce fait tout le / temps des "problèmes" ...'
Cioran, E.M.: Des Larmes et les saints
Paris: L'Herne, 1986
Inscription: 'à Samuel et Suzanne / Beckett / - ce petit livre mort-né / (il y a cinquente / ans) / affectueusement / [signed]'
Cioran, E.M.: Écartèlement
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1979
Les Essais CCVII
Inscription: 'Pour Samuel et Suzanne Beckett, / qui auront, peut être, quelques / indulgence pour ces pauvretés, / avec ma fidèle / amitié / [signed]'
Cioran, E.M.: Exercises d'admiration: essais et portraits
Paris: Gallimard Arcades, 1986
Inscription: 'Pour Sam et Suzanne / Beckett, / avec toute / mon / amitié / [signed]
Cioran, E.M.: Histoire et utopie
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1960
Les Essais XCVI
Cioran, E.M.: La Chute dans le temps
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1964
Les Essais CXIV
Inscription: 'Pour Samuel et Suzanne Beckett / avec toute mon amitié / [signed].
Notes: postcard [of S. Margherita] inserted, probably as reading place holder, on page 95
Cioran, E.M.: La Tentation d'exister
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1961 [1956]
Les Essais LXXXII
Cioran, E.M.: Le Mauvais démiurge
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1969
Les Essais CXLVII
Inscription: 'Pour Samuel et Suzanne / Beckett / avec toute mon / amitié / [signed]
Notes: inserted on page 158, newspaper cutting 'Supplement au numero 7 845', with article by Cioran 'Deux Diagnosis sur un esprit, la fascination du minéral'
Cioran, E.M.: Précis de décomposition
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1949
2nd. ed.; Les Essais XXXV
Notes: inserted on page 217, postcard from Smokey? adressed to Suzanne at Courmayeur, dated july 1965?
Cioran, E.M.: Syllogismes de l'amertume
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1952
Les Essais LII
Notes: - title page uncut; - inserted at front of book, review of Cioran's La Chute dans le Temps, from L'Express, 28 Dec. 1964 - 2 Jan. 1965
Cioran, E.M.: Valéry face à ces idoles
Paris: L'Herne, 1970
Inscription: 'Pour Suzanne et Samuel Beckett / avec toute mon amitié / [signed] // Paris le 5 juin 1970'
Clarke, P.H.: Mikhail Tal's Best Games of Chess
London: G. Bell and Son, 1961
Clarke, P.H.: Petrosian's Best Games of Chess
London: G. Bell and Sons Ltd., 1964
Claudius, Matthias: Sämtliche Werke
Berlin / Darmstadt: Tempel Verlag, 1958
Location: The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
Notes: - card inserted pp. 884-85, at letter from Claudius to Voss, 21/08/1774, which includes 'Der Tod und das Mädchen'; - postcard of drawing of SB by Scott Ingersoll, inserted on page 982-83 (Nachwort); - book ribbon at 'Daten und Ereignisse', page 991
Clifford, James L.: Young Samuel Johnson
London: Heinemann, 1955
Coffey, Brian: Advent
London: The Menard Press, 1986
Coffey, Brian: Death of Hektor: A Poem
London: The Menard Press, 1982
Notes: marginalia: correction in blue ink / pen? on page 11 of word 'Niagara's'
Cohn, Ruby: Modern Shakespeare Offshoots
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976
Inscription: 'For Sam / Sine quem semper non / With love Ruby // You can rip out this page and pass book on'.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Biographia Literaria, Vol. 1
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958 [1907]
J. Shawcross (ed.)
Notes: with his aesthetical essays
 Beckett may be referring to Coleridge's distinction between 'fancy' and 'imagination' on page 09r of the manuscript of Footfalls, MS-UoR-1552-1.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Biographia Literaria, Vol. 2
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959 [1907]
J. Shawcross (ed.)
L.D. Collier (ed.): Everyday Spanish: a Concise of 20 Graded Lessons
 London: Hodder & Stoughton; New York: D. McKay Co, 1982
L.D. Collier (ed.)
Notes: Shakespeare and Co. Paris bookstamp in front inside cover corner of page 171 folded down
Collins Baker, C.H.: Catalogue of the Pictures at Hampton Court
Glasgow: Robert Maclehose and Company Limited; University Press Glasgow, 1929
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Notes: A Catalogue by the Surveyor of the King's Pictures (C.H. Collins Baker), printed for The Lord Chamberlain
Cooke, John: Handbook for Travellers in Ireland
London: John Murray, 1878
Fourth Edition, Revised
Reading traces on: 12, 13.
Le Coran
Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, 1970
Corneille, Pierre: Nicomède
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1921
Location: James and Elizabeth Knowlson Collection, The University of Reading, JEK A/1/4/3 [photocopies]
Corneille, Pierre: Le Menteur
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1913
Location: James and Elizabeth Knowlson Collection, The University of Reading, JEK A/1/4/3 [photocopies]
Corneille, Pierre: La Galerie du palais
 Manchester: Manchester University Press; London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1920
Thomas B. Rudmose-Brown (ed.)
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Inscription: 'Samuel B. Beckett / Trinity College / Dublin - / Michaelmas Term - 1923'
Reading traces on: 7*, 8*, 52*, 57*, 60*, 68, 75*, 79*, 85. (*: page contains marginalia)
Cousin, John W.: A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1925 [1910]
Revised ed.
Inscription: 'Greta [M. Yeo] Wilson'
Reading traces on: 3*, 5*, 6*, 7*, 9*, 11*, 13*, 16*, 17*, 29*, 30*, 106*, 218*, 311, 385, 422*, 423*, 425*, 426*, 428*, 429*, 430*, 431*, 432*, 433*, 434*, 435*, 436*, 437*, 438*, 439*, 440*, 441*, 444*, 445*, 446*, 447*, 449*, 450*, 451*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: previous owner's name on inside front cover
Cousse, Raymond: L'Envers vaut l'endroit
Paris: Édition Dilettante, 1986
Cox, Trenchard: A General Guide to the Wallace Collection
London: 1933
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Inscription: Saml Beckett
Reading traces on: 121.
Notes: Printed for His Majesty's Stationary Office and Sold at Hertford House
Crébillon, Fils: The Wayward Head and Heart
London / New York / Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1963
Barbara Bray (translation)
Rayner Heppenstall (introduction)
Cunard, Nancy: Parallax
London: Hogarth Press, 1925
Inscription: 'To You / from Nancy / 1930'
Cunard, Nancy: Grand Man: Memories of Norman Douglas
London: Secker & Warburg, 1954
Notes: With Extracts from his Letters and Appreciations by Kenneth Macpherson, Harold Acton, Arthur Johnson, Charles Duff, and Victor Cunard and a Biographical Note by Cecil Woolf. Complimentary card from Bertram Rota inserted at page 77, which includes the line 'Sent at the request of Miss Nancy Cunard'.
Curtius, Ernst Robert: Marcel Proust
Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1952
Legouis, Emile and Louis Cazamian: Histoire de la littérature anglaise
Paris: Hachette, 1929
Inscription: 'I. Roustel'
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Notes: cf. TCD notes, which are from English edition
O'Brien, Eoin, Anne Crookshank and Gordon Wolstenholme: A Portrait of Irish Medicine: An Illustrated History of Medicine in Ireland
Swords, Country Dublin: Ward River Press, 1984
Inscription: To Samuel Beckett / In memory of Con, / Eoin O'Brien / 30 xii 84
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