Samuel Beckett
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 		James, Henry: The Turn of the Screw, the Aspern Papers and Other Stories
London/Glasgow: Collins, 1961
Michael Swan (introduction)
Janvier, Ludovic: Une parole exigeante: le nouveau roman
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1964
Inscription: pour Samuel Beckett / en témoignage de / vive admiration, ces / [écarts] de langage / Ludovic Janvier
Janvier, Ludovic: Pour Samuel Beckett
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1966
Inscription: à Samuel Beckett / qui connait [tout] cela trop / bien, donc, / avec mes excuses / pour les écarts et les / manques / fidèlement / 27-1-66 / [signed]
Janvier, Ludovic: La Baigneuse
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1968
Inscription: pour Sam / cette approximation / encore très [lointaine] / vive amitié / Paris 20 sept 68 / [signed]
Janvier, Ludovic: Face: Récit
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1975
Inscription: patience si les quelques / [peines] dont les mots suivent / ont tordu le parleur / pour Sam / en affection / [signed] / 23.1.1975
Janvier, Ludovic: Naissance
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1984
Inscription: mon cher Sam / voici quelques mots / encore / sans espoir mais / pour la musique / à toi / [signed]
Janvier, Ludovic: La mer à boire: Poèmes
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1987
Inscription: mon cher Sam / pour te parler un peu / voici un peu de / [LA MER À BOIRE] / à bientôt / affection de [signed]
Janvier, Ludovic: Monstre, va
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1988
Inscription: mon cher Sam / encore un signe de / vie et ma voix / d'ami / à bientôt? / [signed] / 12.2.88
Jaspers, Karl: Strindberg et Van Gogh: Hœlderlin et Swedenborg
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1953
Hélène Naef (translation)
Maurice Blanchot (preface)
Reading traces on: 275.
Johnson, Samuel: The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D
London: printed for W. Osborne, 1785
Location: The private collection of Noga Arikha, New York
Johnson, Samuel: A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson
London: printed for J. Johnson, 1799
8th ed., corr. and revised
Notes: 2 volumes; previous owner's name
Johnson, Samuel: Johnson on Shakespeare: Essays and Notes Set Forth with an Introduction
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1957 [1908]
Walter Raleigh (ed.)
Johnson, Samuel: Diaries, Prayers, and Annals
New Haven: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1958
The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1
E.L. McAdam, Jr. (ed.)
Johnson, Samuel: Johnsonian Miscellanies
London: Constable & Company LTD, 1966 [1897]
George Birkbeck Hill (ed.)
Notes:
- 2 volumes;
- cardboard bookmark inserted on page 21 of volume 1;
- price on inside cover: £7/7/-
Johnson, Samuel: The Complete English Poems
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971
8th ed.
J.D. Fleeman (ed.)
Notes: corner of page 67, in the middle of 'London: a poem', turned down
Jones, Ernest: Sigmund Freud: Life and Work
London: The Hogarth Press, 1953
Notes: 3 volumes: Volume 1 -'The Young Freud 1856-1900'; Volume 2 - 'Years of Maturity 1901-1919'; Volume 3 - ''.
Jonson, Ben: Epigrams, and The Forest
Manchester: Fyfield books, 1984
Richard Dutton (ed.)
Inscription: With affectionate good / wishes, for your birthday. / Katharine / April 1988
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.
Joyce, James: Pomes Penyeach
Paris: Shakespeare & Co., 1927
Joyce, James: Finnegans Wake
London: Faber & Faber, 1939
Notes:
- sticker inside front cover: 'James Joyce / 34 Rue des Vignes / Paris XVI';
- inserted on page 195 [which ends 'Quoiquoietc'], a small offprint from Finnegans Wake in Portugese, Lisboa 1968, with handwritten corrections and inscription by Francis Warner: 'For Samuel Beckett, / from Francis Warner. / page 4, for some unknown reason, / has been surpressed by the régime / Nov 1968';
- inserted in back: a) framed colour photograph of Lucia Joyce's grave and b) TS of 'The Ballad of Tim Finnegan'
Joyce, James: Chamber Music
London: Jonathan Cape, 1949 [1927]
4th impression
Inscription: '9/III/49'
Notes: Shakespeare and Co. sticker on inside back cover
Joyce, James: A James Joyce Yearbook
Paris: Transition Press, 1949
Maria Jolas (ed.)
Inscription: 'To Sam Beckett / With affection / Maria Jolas / Paris, 1949'
Notes:
- number 181 of 1000 copies;
- correction in text (cf. for ex. page 112) by Maria Jolas
Joyce, James: Exiles: A Play in Three Acts
London: Jonathan Cape, 1952 [1921]
Padraic Colum (introduction)
Notes: with the author's own notes
Joyce, James: Dublin: Novellen
Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer Bücherei, 1953
Georg Goyert (translation)
Joyce, James: Dubliners
London: Jonathan Cape, 1954
Robin Jacques (illustrations)
Inscription: 'Noël 1956 / Josette'
Joyce, James: Epiphanies
Buffalo: Lockwood Memorial Library, 1956
O.A. Silverman (introduction and notes)
Inscription: 'For Sam Beckett / from Jimmy Stern / in admiration / & in memory of Paris / days - indeed of the / Epiphanist Himself! / London / March 1957'
Notes: number 233 of 550 numbered copies
Joyce, James: Letters of James Joyce
London: Faber & Faber, 1957
Stuart Gilbert (ed.)
Joyce, James: The Voice of Shem: Passages from Finnegans Wake, Freely Adapted for the Theater by Mary Manning
London: Faber & Faber, 1958
Denis Johnston (introduction)
Joyce, James: Ulysses
London: Bodley Head, 1960
Inscription: 'To Sam / with much affection / from Stosi, Bettina & John / in memory of the [Lanb].'
In the manuscript of En attendant Godot (MS-BNF-MY-440, page 13r), Beckett invokes the 'Cyclops' chapter and Alf Bergan's story about erection being a side effect of hanging.
Joyce, James: Lettres de Joyce
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1961
Stuart Gilbert (ed.)
Marie Tadié (translation)
Inscription: 'To Samuel Beckett / In hopes that this / French version of these / familiar letters may / interest him, / from his friend / Stuart Gilbert // Pour Monsieur Samuel Beckett / avec mon admiration profonde / Marie Tadié'
Notes: pages have not been cut
Joyce, James: Musica da camera: Poesie giovanili di James Joyce
Milan: All'Insegna del pesce d'oro, 1961
Aldo Camerino (translation)
Joyce, James: Exiles
New English Library / Foursquare, 1962
Padraic Colum (introduction)
Notes: ex libris F.E. Beckett
Joyce, James: Daniel Defoe
New York: State Univ. of New York at Buffalo, 1964
Joseph Prescott (edited from Italian manuscripts and translated)
Inscription: 'For Mr. Samuel Beckett, / With my compliments, / Joseph Prescott'
Joyce, James: Letters of James Joyce, Vol. II / III
New York: The Viking Press, 1966
Richard Ellmann (ed.)
Notes:
- inserted at front of volume 3 is a photograph of Joyce by Martinie, in what appears to be a plate from a book;
- scrap from envelope inserted on page 198-9
Joyce, James: Giacomo Joyce
Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1968
Richard Ellmann (ed.)
Klaus Reichert (translation)
Notes: de luxe edition in slip case; 1000 copies
Joyce, James: Giacomo Joyce
New York: Viking Press, 1968
Richard Ellmann (introduction and notes)
Joyce, James: Verbannte
Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1968
Klaus Reichert (ed.)
Notes: seemingly unopened; still in paper slip jacket
Joyce, James: Exiles
1970
Notes: programme of performance at the Mermaid Theatre, 1970
Joyce, James: Dublinois: Les Morts - Contreparties; Dubliners: The Dead, Counterparts
Paris: Aubier Flammarion, 1974
Jean-Noël Vuarnet (translation)
Hélène Cixous (introduction)
Inscription: 'Pour Samuel Beckett, / l'admiration de / J N Vuarnet'
Notes: bilingual edition
Joyce, James: Dubliners
Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1986
édition de luxe sous étui
Louis Le Brocquy (lithographs)
Inscription: 'TO SAM / FROM ANNE AND LOUIS / WITH LOVE'
Joyce, James: Lettres, Vol. IV
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1986
Richard Ellmann (ed.)
Marie Tadié (translation)
Inscription: 'Pour Samuel Beckett / avec mon admiration / Marie Tadié'
Notes: piece of paper inserted page 121
Joyce, Stanislaus: My Brother's Keeper
London: Faber & Faber, 1958
Richard Ellmann (ed.)
T.S. Eliot (preface)
Joyce, Stanislaus: My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early Years
New York: Viking Press, 1958
Joyce, Stanislaus: The Dublin Diary of Stanislaus Joyce
London: Faber & Faber, 1962
George Harris Healey (ed.)
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