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 		MacGreevy, Thomas: Nicolas Poussin
Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1960
Inscription: 'Sam and Suzanne / affectueusement / Tom'.
MacGreevy, Thomas: Collected Poems
Dublin: New Writers' Press, 1971
Thomas Dillon Redshaw (ed.)
Samuel Beckett (foreword)
Reading traces on: 11, 12.
MacGreevy, Thomas: Pictures in the Irish National Gallery
Cork: The Mercier Press, 1945
Inscription: 'For Sam / from / Tom / comme toujours / Dublin 1946'.
Machatscheck, Heinz: 111 Sowjetische Meisterpartien
Berlin: Sportverlag, 1956
Machiavelli, Niccolò: Le Istorie fiorentine
Florence: Successori Le Monnier, 1888
Reading traces on: 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
Notes:
- marginalia: 8 / 10 [Dedication]; 11-14 ['Proemio dell'Autore] - underlining and side marking with coloured pencils favoured by SB. From page 17 onward throughout the text there are numerous marks, underlinings and marginal comments in fine pencil - the hand does not appear to be SB's [these have not been scanned];
- previous owner's name: 'Th. [Joyut?]";
- first pages of book too fragile - title page not scanned
Machiavelli, Niccolò: Le Prince
Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1947
Notes: bookseller's pencil info on inside front cover
Madden, Anne: Peintures et papiers récents
Saint-Paul: Fondation Maeght, 1983
Inscription: For Sam / With Love / Anne.
Notes: exhibition catalogue; February - March 1983
Madden, Anne: Peintures et dessins récents
Cannes: Galerie Joachim Becker, 1985
Notes: exhibition catalogue; July - August 1985
Madden, Anne: Peintures
Barcelona: Galeria Maeght, 1985
Notes: exhibition catalogue
Maeterlinck, Maurice: Théâtre, Vol. 1
Paris: Charpentier, n.d. [1939]
La Princesse Maleine, L'Intruse, Les Aveugles
Inscription: xxxx
Reading traces on: XI, XIII.
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Magalaner, Marvin and Richard M. Kain: Joyce: The Man, the Work, the Reputation
London: John Calder, 1957
Magnin, J.: La Peinture au Musée de Dijon
Besançon: Imprimerie Jacques et Demontrond, 1933
3e édition revue et complétée
Reading traces on: card-FR-1.
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Maguinness, William Stuart: Bimillennial Reflections on Ovid
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958
Greece & Rome V.1
Notes: offprint
Maguinness, William Stuart: Virgil and Milton
Romanistas III.3&4, 1961
Inscription: 'With kindest wishes from / Stuart'
Notes: offprint
Maguinness, William Stuart: Bentley as Man and Scholar
Leeds: Chorley & Pickersgill LTD, 1963
The Bentley commemorative Lectures delivered to the Classical Association at the University, Leeds in April 1962
Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical Society X.3
Notes: offprint
Maguinness, William Stuart: Petit plaidoyer pour la poésie trochaique
Rome: Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 1963
Rivista di cultura classica e medioevale V.2
Notes: offprint
Maguinness, William Stuart: The Language of Lucretius
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965
D.R. Dudley (ed.)
Notes: offprint
Malcolm, Norman: Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967 [1962]
Inscription: 'For Sam / with love / from Mary / 1-1-71 / W's favourite / musical composer also / was Schubert ...'
Mallarmé, Stéphane: Œuvres complètes
Paris: Gallimard Pléiade, 1961 [1945]
Notes: book ribbon at page 1138-9
Mandelstam, Nadezhda: Hope against Hope: A Memoir
London: Collins & Harvill Press, 1971
Max Hayward (translation)
Clarence Brown (introduction)
Mannoni, Octave: Freud
Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1968
Écrivains de Toujours
Marc-Aurèle: Pensées pour moi-même, suivi de Manuel d'Épictète
Paris: Garnier Flammarion, 1964
Mario Meunier (edited and translated)
Notes: bookseller's pencil note on inside front cover '2 70'
Marlowe, Christopher: Plays and Poems
London: Dent & Sons, 1963 [1955]
Everyman
Notes: bookseller sticker inside front cover: W.H. Smith & Son in Paris
Maspero, François: Le Sourire du chat
Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1984
Matthews, Honor: The Hard Journey: The Myth of Man's Rebirth
London: Chatto & Windus, 1968
Maulnier, Thierry: Introduction à la poésie française
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1939
Notes: book too fragile to scan interior, i.e. no title page image
Mauriac, François: La Vie de Jean Racine
Paris: Plon, 1928
Reading traces on: 35, 49, 51, 80, 85, 86, 88, 95, 97, 99, 105, 120, 124, 129, 130, 131, 140, 142, 165, 169, 193, 194, 198, 200, 227, 229, 242.
Mauthner, Fritz: Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache, Vol. 1
Leipzig: F. Meiner, 1923
3rd ed.
Reading traces on: xi, xiv, xv, xvi, 2, 13, 19, 31, 33, 35, 41, 42, 43, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 59, 60, 61, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 77, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 93, 97, 98, 102, 103, 104, 110, 119, 134, 135, 136, 137, 142, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 151, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 159, 162, 164, 166, 167, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 176, 177, 181, 183, 185, 188, 193, 199, 200, 202, 203, 204, 209, 210, 213, 219, 225, 228, 229, 230, 243, 244, 245, 247, 250, 251, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 266, 268, 269, 270, 271, 274, 275, 276, 278, 280, 288, 289, 290, 291, 293, 300, 303, 304, 306, 316, 317, 318, 321, 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336, 337, 339, 340, 341, 342, 343, 344, 346, 352, 353, 354, 355, 356, 358, 359, 360, 361, 363, 364, 365, 366, 367, 368, 369, 372, 373, 375, 376, 377, 379, 382, 391, 393, 396, 397, 399, 403, 405, 409, 410, 411, 413, 414, 415, 422, 424, 425, 427, 428, 429, 433, 436, 437, 438, 439, 446, 448, 449, 451, 452, 454, 455, 456, 457, 459, 460, 463, 466, 469, 470, 471, 473, 485, 489, 490, 491, 493, 494, 495, 506, 517, 520, 521, 522, 523, 531, 532, 533, 534, 535, 536, 537, 538, 540, 541, 543, 546, 547, 553, 554, 557, 558, 561, 564, 566, 568, 570, 571, 577, 578, 579, 580, 581, 582, 583, 584, 586, 587, 588, 589, 591, 592, 593, 594, 597, 598, 600, 601, 603, 604, 606, 607, 611, 612, 615, 617, 618, 632, 633, 634, 635, 636, 637, 638, 639, 641, 642, 643, 646, 647, 648, 650, 652, 654, 655, 656, 666, 667, 669, 670, 671, 676, 678, 680, 681, 682, 684, 686, 687, 688, 689, 690, 691, 693, 695, 696, 700, 701, 702, 703, 704, 705, 706, 707, 709, 712, 713, 715, 717, 719.
Notes: - inside cover of volume 1: '1/3 20.-'
- the pencil marks in the margins are probably not Beckett's (Van Hulle and Nixon 2013, 158-163)
Mauthner, Fritz: Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache, Vol. 2
Leipzig: F. Meiner, 1923
3rd ed.
Reading traces on: 1, 3, 4, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 31, 39, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 55, 56, 58, 71, 83, 99, 100, 123, 132, 138, 140, 141, 144, 147, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 155, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 164, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 187, 189, 192, 193, 194, 197, 200, 201, 203, 204, 205, 208, 214, 216, 219, 220, 222, 226, 227, 232, 245, 248, 267, 268, 269, 270, 272, 274, 276, 282, 283, 285, 289, 293, 295, 296, 299, 300, 301, 315, 316, 323, 325, 329, 330, 337, 348, 349, 354, 355, 356, 371, 384, 385, 409, 410, 411, 423, 426, 427, 428, 432, 433, 434, 437, 438, 444, 450, 454, 455, 456, 457, 460, 461, 474, 476, 477, 478, 479, 480, 483, 487, 489, 498, 507, 513, 514, 515, 525, 526, 550, 551, 552, 555, 556, 557, 558, 559, 562, 567, 570, 576, 579, 580, 581, 582, 583, 584, 585, 586, 587, 588, 589, 594, 595, 596, 597, 613, 614, 618, 629, 646, 649, 651, 652, 657, 659, 676, 683, 684, 685, 687, 689, 691, 695, 697, 699, 700, 701, 702, 703, 704, 705, 706, 707, 708, 710, 711, 712, 713, 714, 715, 716, 717, 718.
Notes: the pencil marks in the margins are probably not Beckett's (Van Hulle and Nixon 2013, 158-163)
Mauthner, Fritz: Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache, Vol. 3
Leipzig: F. Meiner, 1923
3rd ed.
Reading traces on: 2, 3, 10, 42, 43, 48, 56, 80, 81, 84, 101, 133, 137, 153, 154, 189, 197, 198, 207, 208, 214, 216, 217, 223, 224, 234, 235, 243, 244, 245, 246, 248, 249, 251, 253, 255, 256, 257, 258, 266, 267, 271, 286, 287, 290, 291, 292, 297, 309, 311, 321, 332, 347, 348, 349, 350, 351, 359, 362, 363, 366, 367, 368, 369, 370, 371, 373, 384, 393, 395, 396, 401, 402, 416, 420, 421, 422, 423, 431, 458, 459, 461, 462, 463, 468, 472, 473, 474, 475, 479, 483, 484, 485, 486, 487, 488, 492, 493, 495, 515, 519, 520, 521, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, 529, 530, 532, 535, 536, 541, 542, 544, 547, 552, 553, 556, 564, 565, 567, 568, 569, 578, 579, 580, 585, 591, 592, 596, 597, 599, 602, 603, 604, 605, 612, 613, 614, 615, 616, 617, 618, 619, 621, 622, 626, 627, 628, 629, 631, 632, 634, 635, 636, 639, 640, 641, vii, x, xi, xvi.
Notes: the pencil marks in the margins are probably not Beckett's (Van Hulle and Nixon 2013, 158-163)
Mayoux, Jean-Jacques: Melville par lui-même
Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1958
Collection écrivains de toujours
Inscription: For Samuel Beckett / this story, which I hope / will sound familiar / with the best regards of / Jean Jacques Mayoux
Mayoux, Jean-Jacques: Vivants Piliers: Le roman anglo-saxon et les symboles (Coleridge, De Quincey, Hawthorne, Melville, Henry James, Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Beckett)
Paris: Julliard, 1960
Les lettres nouvelles
Inscription: Pour Samuel Beckett / (et Suzanne " ) / en espérant n'avoir pas trop [trahi] / Bien cordialement. / Jean Jacques Mayoux
Notes: title page uncut; from Hawthorne to Conrad pages mostly uncut
Mayoux, Jean-Jacques: Laurence Sterne parmi nous
Critique 177, 1962
Inscription: Pour Samuel et Suzanne Beckett / leur ami dévoué / Jean Jacques Mayoux
Notes: offprint
Mayoux, Jean-Jacques: Joyce
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1965
La Bibliothèque idéale
Mayoux, Jean-Jacques: Shakespeare
Paris: Seghers, 1966
Inscription: "Pour Samuel Beckett / avec l'affectueux dévouement / de Jean Jacques Mayoux"
Mayoux, Jean-Jacques: Sous de vastes portiques: Etudes de littérature et d'art anglais
Paris: Nadeau et Papyrus, 1981
Les lettres nouvelles
Vivants Piliers II
Mayoux, Jean-Jacques: Shakespeare
Paris: Aubier Montaigne, 1982
Inscription: Pour Samuel Beckett / en toute affection / Jean Jacques Mayoux
Notes:
- corners on the following pages have been folded down and then up again: 29, 61, 65, 67, 77, 85, 87, 91, 95, 111, 115, 119, 131, 139, 145, 147, 149
- cardboard paper inserted page 77, beginning of second chapter
McDowell, C.H.: A Short Dictionary of Mathematics
New York: The Philosophical Library, 1957
Henrietta O. Midonick (introduction)
McGreevy, Thomas: Richard Aldington, an Englishman
London: Chatto & Windus, 1931
Dolphin Series
Notes: sketch of an elderly man inserted page 50, it is signed 'D.B.M.E.'
McGreevy, Thomas: T.S. Eliot, a Study
London: Chatto & Windus, 1931
Dolphin Series
Inscription: 'To Samuel Beckett / from Tom McGreevy / affectionately / 22/1/31'.
McGreevy, Thomas: Poems
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1934
Inscription: 'Sam / from Tom / Chelsea, England, May,/ 1934'.
Reading traces on: 3, 4, 5, 12, 13, 18, 27, 30, 31, 35, 38, 38insert, 45, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57.
Notes:
- all marginal lines and notes made in red pen;
- inserted on page 38, a cutting which includes MacGreevy's poem 'On the Death of Joseph Djugashvili alias Stalin' - Beckett's note on top of page reads 'Univ Review / June [62]'
McHugh, Roger: Jack B. Yeats: A Centenary Gathering
Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1971
Notes:
- includes two essays by SB: 'MacGreevy on Yeats' and 'Hommage à Jack B. Yeats';
- heavily annotated (7 / 9-20 / 31 / 34-38 / 65-66 / 68-76 / 83-99 / 101-106 / 110-11 / 113 / Y //) with pencil, but presumably not by Beckett - this suggested by the marginal note 'Beckett?' on page 18;
- perhaps a proof copy, especially as specific nouns are often underlined as one would to compile an index
Meister, Alten: Katalog der Staatlichen Gemälde-Galerie zu Dresden
Berlin: Julius Bard, Verlag for Literatur und Kinst, G. M. B. H., 1930
Reading traces on: 71, 161, 167, 168, 178, 179.
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Notes: Herausgegeben im Auftrage des Ministeriums für Volksbildung
Melander, Ingrid: The Transcendent Flame: Thematic/Structural Complexity in Francis Warner's Experimental Sonnets
Stockholm: Umea, 1987
Melville, Herman: Moby Dick, or the White Whale
London: Dent, 1925 [1907]
Notes: bookseller's sticker on inside cover: Foyles London
Melzi, G.B.: Melzi's Italian-English / English-Italian Dictionary
London: Hirschfeld Brothers, n.d.
Inscription: S.B. Beckett / Trinity College, Dublin / 1924
Notes: too brittle to scan title page
Ménétrier, Jacques: Origines de l'Occident: Nomades et sédentaires
Paris: Édition Wéber, 1972
Inscription: à Samuel et Suzanne Beckett / ce: d'ou venons nous? qui [boulle?] le cycle / de ma recherche / en toute amitie / [signed]
Michaut, G.: Sainte-Beuve
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1921
Reading traces on: flyer, flyerinsert, 192, 193, 195, 200, 203, 205.
Notes:
- inside front cover attached flyer from 'Librairie Gibert', which also carries date '9-1-24';
- on front of this paper SB (presumably) has noted names of French writers
Michaux, Henri: Connaissance par les gouffres
Paris: Gallimard, 1961
Notes: card with sketch inserted page 72; column with numbers on back flyleaf
Milton, John: Paradise Regain'd: A Poem in Four Books. To Which is Added Samson Agonistes, etc.
London: printed for J. Tonson, 1713
5th ed.
Reading traces on: inscover, inscription.
Milton, John: Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books
London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1904 [1898]
5th ed.
The Temple Classics
Notes: book ribbon is at page 248; many pages uncut throughout the book (at regular intervals)
Milton, John: Poetical Works
London: Oxford University Press, 1969
Douglas Bush (ed.)
Notes: bookseller's note on inside front cover: '19 00 pb'
Mitchell, Joan and Yves Michaud: La Grande valée / Colour
Paris: Galérie J. Fournier, 1984
Inscription: For Sam / with love / from Joan / so lovely to see you again / for my birthday Feb. 12, 1985
Molière: L'Avare
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1918
8th ed.
G. Lanson (ed.)
Inscription: 'Samuel B. Beckett / Trinity College / Dublin. / Hilary Term - 1924''Daniel de W. Rogers. / T.C.D. / Michaelmas Term 1950.'
Reading traces on: 64, 65, 71, 99, 103, 108, 149, 154.
Location: Currently for sale at Peter Harrington, London [april 2016]
Notes: - The inscription is followed by a second ownership inscription by the linguist Prof. Daniel de Warrenne Rogers, dated 1950, and a stamped seal of the second-hand bookstore 'Fred Hanna Ltd' (Nassau Street).
- The volume contains the menu for the Summer Commencements Dinner, 2 July 1959 (signed by Beckett and four others, notably Walter Starkie, professor of Spanish and Italian), which was the occasion on which Beckett received the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters at Trinity College, Dublin.
- The TCD Calendars mention another edition: Molière: L'Avare, edited by Alfred Thomas Baker, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1918.
- Marginalia: notes primarily in Beckett's hand but some made by Rogers, mainly translations of difficult vocabulary.
- Scans: only a sample of the 19 annotated pages are included here, the original book is for sale at Peter Harrington, London.
Molière: Théâtre complet, Vol. 1
Paris: Bibliothèque Hachette, n.d.
Notes:
- volume III is missing;
- missing inscription on volume 1 suggests that it was bought at a later date, as the other three volumes have same inscription
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
Molière: Théâtre complet, Vol. 4
Paris: bibliothèque Hachette, n.d.
Inscription: S. B. Beckett / July 1926
Reading traces on: 292insertrecto, 292insertverso.
Notes: scrap of paper inserted into volume four at page 292
Molière: Théâtre complet, Vol. 5
Paris: Bibliothèque Hachette, n.d.
Inscription: S. B. Beckett / July 1926
Reading traces on: 67, 131, 138, 139, 148.
Montague, John: The Dead Kingdom
Portlaoise: Dolmen Press, in association with Winston-Salem, Wake Forest University Press, 1984
Inscription: A sigh / for Sam / from John; / sailing on, / with affection.
Montague, John: The Figure in the Cave and Other Essays
Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1989
Montaigne, Michel de: Essais
Paris: Gallimard Pléiade, 1958 [1950]
Reading traces on: 32, 33.
Notes:
- presumably booksellers information on fly-leaf: '12/10/71 / 53.10 / 40';
- book ribbon at page 66
on page(s): 32 [zone 1], 33 [zone 1]
Moore, George: Confessions of a Young Man
London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey and Co., 1888
1st ed.
Inscription: 'Sam / With love from Mary / Xmas 1963'
Notes: bookseller note on inside cover: '1st Ed. / Hodgson / 30/3/33 / price [£5] erased'
Moore, George: Héloïse and Abélard
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1926 [1921]
Location: The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
Moore, George: Celibate Lives
Leipzig: Tauchnitz Edition, 1927
Moore, George: A Storyteller's Holiday, Vol. 1
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928
Inscription: '[L.] Marie Sinclair (&) / [Dormar T. Arius.]'
Location: The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
Moore, George: The Lake
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1932
Location: The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
Moore, George: Hail and Farewell: Ave; Salve; Vale
London: Heinemann, 1947
The Works of George Moore
Notes: 3 volumes
Moore, Gerald: The Schubert Song Cycle and Thoughts on Performance
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1975
Notes:
- bookseller's sticker on inside front cover - Galignani, Rue de Rivoli, Paris - top left corner in pencil '030375' [date?] 2.';
- price corner cut
More, Thomas: Utopia
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1913 [1879]
Inscription: Samuel B. Beckett / Trinity College / Dublin / Michaelmas Term - 1922 3
Morrisroe, Patrick (Most Rev.): A Little Manual of Liturgy
Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son, Ltd, 1926
Inscription: John [Kehoe] / Belvedere College / Prep [J "A"]
Notes: previous owner's name inscribed
Morten, Honnor: The Nurse's Dictionary of Medical Terms and Nursing Treatment
London: The Scientific Press, 1895
3rd rev. ed.
Murphy, William M.: Prodigal Father: The Life of John Butler Yeats
Ithica/London: Cornell University Press, 1979
Murray, K. M. Elizabeth: Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979
R. W. Burchfield (preface)
Musée de l'orangerie: De Clouet a Matisse: Dessins Français des collections Américaines, 1958-1959
Paris: 1958-1959
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Notes: Review of the exhibition by Robert Pinget removed from an issue of Les Lettres Nouvelles pp. 135-138 inserted between cover and title page.
Museum der Bildende Künste zu Leipzig: Katalog der Neuen Pinakothek zu München: Verzeichnis der Ausgestellten Kunstwerke
Leipzig: 1929
27. Auflage
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Museum der Bildende Künste zu Leipzig: Museum der Bildenden Künste zu Leipzig: Verzeichnis der Ausgestellten Kunstwerke
Leipzig: 1929
27. Auflage
Reading traces on: 37, 89, 93.
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
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