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von der Vogelweide, Walther: Walther von der Vogelweide, Altdeutsch und übertragen von Walther Bulst
Berlin / Leipzig: Der Tempel Verlag, n.d.
Jan Vladislav (ed.)
Inscription: 'S Beckett / Hamburg Nov 1936'
Notes: bookseller's price and date at the bottom of the page '2.10 / 23.x.36.'

Dante Alighieri: A Concordance to the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
Cambridge, MS: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1965
Ernest Hatch Wilkins (ed.)
Thomas Goddard Bergin (ed.)
Inscription: 'For Sam from Barbara with love. / December 1965 / O luce ...'
Notes: inserted into front of book is a page from Dante Alighieri's 'La Vita Nuova, Il Convito, Il Canzoniere, which is inscribed with ink 'S.B. Beckett'

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'

Murphy, William M.: Prodigal Father: The Life of John Butler Yeats
Ithica / London: Cornell University Press, 1979

Gogol, Nicolai: Les Aventures de Tchitkov, ou Les Âmes mortes
Lausanne: La Guilde du Livre, 1956
Arthur Adamov (translation)
Avigdor Arikha (illustrations)
Inscription: 'A Samuel Beckett, ces dessins et mon / amitié, / Avigdor Arikha / Paris, noël 1956'

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

Fontane, Theodor: Effi Briest
Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, n.d.

Friedländer, M.J.: Martin Schongauer
Leipzig: Verlag Von E. A. Seemann, 1922
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Reading traces on: 5*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: Bookmark inserted at the back of the book.

Friedländer, Max J.: Die Niederländische Manieristen
Leipzig: E.A. Seemann,
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington

Georges, K.E.: Kleines Lateinisch-Deutsches Handwörterbuch
Leipzig: Hahn'sche Verlags-Buchhandlung, 1864

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'
Beckett alludes to the last line of the story 'How the Cat and the Mouse Set up House' in the manuscript of En attendant Godot (MS-BNF-MY-440, page 47r). He may be alluding to the final lines of 'How the Cat and the Mouse Set up House' on page 19r of the 'Kilcool' Notebook, MS-TCD-4664.

Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel von: Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus
Leipzig: Insel Verlag, n.d.

Heine, Heinrich: Buch der Lieder
Leipzig: Insel, n.d.
Reading traces on: 81, 90, 91, 94*, 142, 143, 146*, 150, 155, 161, 162. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: black pen probably by SB, but not the purple crosses and arrows

Heinemann, Karl: Die deutsche Dichtung: Grundriss der deutschen Literaturgeschichte
Leipzig: Alfred Kröner Verlag, [1930]
8th ed.
Inscription: 'Samuel Beckett / Hamburg Oct 1936'

von Hofmannsthal, Hugo: Das dichterische Element in unserer Zeit
Leipzig: 1932
printed for Axel Kaun
Notes: inserted in Plümacher's Der Pessimismus

Hölderlin, Friedrich: Sämtliche Werke
Leipzig: Insel Verlag, [1926]
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Inscription: 'SB / 24/12/37'
Reading traces on: 62, 87, 88, 89, 90, 440, 441, 442, 445, 453*, 454, 466*, 467, 469*, 471, 472*. (*: page contains marginalia)

Kleist, Heinrich von: Ueber das Marionettentheater: Aufsätze und Anekdoten
Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1968 [1954]
Inscription: 'Für dich, von / Nancy'
Reading traces on: 8, 10*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: inside cover, bookseller price and date 'III 69 / 3,-'

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. (*: page contains marginalia)
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)

Moore, George: Celibate Lives
Leipzig: Tauchnitz Edition, 1927

Museum der Bildende Künste zu Leipzig: Museum der Bildenden Künste zu Leipzig: Verzeichnis der Ausgestellten Kunstwerke
Leipzig: 1929
27. Auflage
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Reading traces on: 37*, 89*, 93*. (*: page contains marginalia)

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

Pinder, Wilhelm: Die Pietà
Leipzig: E. A. Seemann,
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Notes: Bookmark between pp. 10 and 11 (unnumbered).

Rinck, Henri: 150 Endspielstudien
Leipzig: Verlag von Veit and Comp., 1909
Inscription: For Sam -/- and Fin de Partie in / New York! Oui! / Ever / Alan / Sept 29, 1958

Scheffler, Karl: Deutsche Maler und Zeichner im Neunzehnjahrhundert
Leipzig: 1923
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Reading traces on: bookmarkfront*, bookmarkback*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: Mit 77 Bildtafeln

Schopenhauer, Arthur: Sämmtliche Werke, Vol. 1
Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1923
2nd ed.
Julius Frauenstädt (ed.)
Reading traces on: 2_1, 2_4, 2_5, 2_7, 2_9, 2_10*, 11, 2_11, 2_12, 2_14, 2_15, 2_22, 23, 24, 26*, 27, 39, 40, 42insertrecto*, 42insertverso*, 2_48, 48, 2_49, 2_50*, 2_51, 2_52, 2_53*, 54, 56, 57, 58, 2_64*, 2_65, 94, 96, 100, 106*, 108, 112, 114, 115, 123, 124, 125, 142*, 143*, 144, 145*, 147, 149, 150, 152, 153, 154, 157*, 158, 162, 164, 169, 170, 175*, 177, 178, 180, 181, 184, 187, 197, insbackcover*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: - marginalia: volume 1: 'Einleitung des Herausgebers': 11 / 23 / 24 / 26 / 27 / 39 / 40 / 48 / 54 / 55 / 57 / 58 / 94 / 96 / 100 / 106 / 108 / 112 / 114 / 115 / 123 / 124 / 125; 'Arthur Schopenhauer: Ein Lebensbild vom Herausgeber': 142-5 / 147 / 149 / 150 / 152-4 / 157-8 / 161 / 162 / 164 / 169-70 / 175 / 177 / 178 / 180-1 / 184 / 187 / 197; Schrifiten zur Erkenntnislehre: 'Ueber die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom zureichenden Grunde': 1 / 4 / 5 / 7 / 9-12 / 14-15 / 22 / 48-53 / 64 / 65 / inside back cover //; volume 2: Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, 'Vorrede zur ersten Auflage': viii / xi; 'Vorrede zur zweiten Auflage: xix / xx / xxiv / xxv //; volume 3: none (Die Welt as Wille und Vorstellung II, beginning with 'Ergänzungen zum Ersten Buch'); volume 4: none (Schriften zur Naturphilosophie und zur Ethik); volume 5: from 'Fragmente der Geschichte der Philosophie': 47 (Parerga und Paralipomena I); volume 6: none (Parerga und Paralipomena II); - orange scrap of paper torn in half, the first halp inserted on page 42 in volume 1: 'carcass + craze' (r), '[Flesh fell +] unreason' (v), the second on page 12 in volume 2: 'Flesh fell + [unreason]';- piece of paper inserted in volume 5 on page 344 ('Von dem, was einer isst'). 7) piece of paper inserted in volume 6 on page 526 (Kapitel XXII, 'Selbstdenken')

Schopenhauer, Arthur: Sämmtliche Werke, Vol. 2
Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1923
2nd ed.
Julius Frauenstädt (ed.)
Reading traces on: viii*, xi, xix, xx, xxiv, xxv, 12insert*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Beckett cites the line 'Suave, mari magno' by Lucretius, which he possibly encountered in Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (I.60), in the manuscript of Malone meurt (MS-HRC-SB-7-4, page 24r).

Schopenhauer, Arthur: Sämmtliche Werke, Vol. 3
Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1923
2nd ed.
Julius Frauenstädt (ed.)

Schopenhauer, Arthur: Sämmtliche Werke, Vol. 4
Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1923
2nd ed.
Julius Frauenstädt (ed.)

Schopenhauer, Arthur: Sämmtliche Werke, Vol. 5
Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1923
2nd ed.
Julius Frauenstädt (ed.)
Reading traces on: 47.

Schopenhauer, Arthur: Sämmtliche Werke, Vol. 6
Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1923
2nd ed.
Julius Frauenstädt (ed.)

Stange, Alfred: Lucas Moser und Hans Multscher
Leipzig: E. A. Seemann,
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington

Tietze-Conrat, E.: Die Delfter Malerschule: Carel Fabritius Pieter de Hooch Jan Vermeer
Leipzig: E. A. Seemann,
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington

Wolfskehl, Karl and Friedrich von der Leyen: Älteste deutsche Dichtung: Urtext und Übertragung
Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1932 [1909]
Inscription: 'Samuel Beckett / Hamburg Nov 1936'
Notes: - marginalia: 31 / 33 / 35 / 37;- bought Hamburg 12 November 1936 (German Diary 1)

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*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: - bookseller's stamp; - corner of page 155 folded down at some point

Farinha, A. Dias: Une Inscription portugaise inédite à El-Jadida
Lisbonne / Rabat: 1970
Studia 25
Aymeric de Descallar (translation)
Notes: offprint

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

Alekhine, Alexander: My Best Games of Chess 1924-1937
London: G. Bell and Sons, 1949 [1939]
Reading traces on: 36.
Notes: ticks against the games as SB worked his way through the book

Arikha, Avigdor: Ink Drawings and Etchings
London: Marlborough London, 1974

Arikha, Avigdor: Oil Paintings and Drawings
London: Marlborough London, 1982
Notes: paintings on pages 7, 15, 25, crossed out with black felt pen

Arikha, Avigdor: Oil Paintings, Pastels and Drawings
London: Marlborough London, 1986

Arikha, Avigdor: Oils, Watercolours, Pastels, Inks and Drawings
London / Tokyo: Marlborough London, 1988

Arikha, Avigdor: Oil Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings 1978
London: Marlborough London, 1978

Arikha, Avigdor: Samuel Beckett by Avigdor Arikha: A Tribute to Samuel Beckett on his 70th Birthday
London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1970

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.

Austen, Jane: Letters 1796-1817
London / New York / Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1956 [1955]
R.W. Chapman (ed.)

Austen, Jane: Mansfield Park
London: Oxford University Press, 1960
Mary Lascelles (introduction)

Austen, Jane: Northanger Abbey and Persuasion
London / Glasgow: Collins, 1953
R. Brimley Johnson (introduction)

Austen, Jane: Persuasion
London: Oxford University Press, 1960
Forrest Reid (introduction)

Austen, Jane: Sense and Sensibility
London: Oxford University Press, 1959
Lord David Cecil (introduction)

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'

Barker, J.W.: Teach Yourself Portuguese
London: The English Universities Press, 1968
Notes: corner of page 63 folded down

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. (*: page contains marginalia)
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. (*: page contains marginalia)
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.

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'

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*. (*: page contains marginalia)
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. Beckett quotes from Deuteronomy (4:31), Nehemiah (9:31), Lamentations (3:22–3) and the Psalms / Proverbs (12:10) on page 04r of the second typescript of Not I, MS-UoR-1227-7-12-3.

Bishop, Morris: Petrarch and his World
London: Chatto & Windus, 1964

Bonnard: Bonnard 1867-1947: Drawings, Gouaches, Watercolours
London: Victor Waddington, 1966
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington

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'

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

Burton, Robert: The Anatomy of Melancholy, Vol. 1
London: George Bell & Sons, 1893
A. R. Shilleto (ed.)
A. H. Bullen (introduction)
Location: The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
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. (*: page contains marginalia)

Burton, Robert: The Anatomy of Melancholy, Vol. 2
London: George Bell & Sons, 1893
A. R. Shilleto (ed.)
A. H. Bullen (introduction)
Location: The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
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.

Burton, Robert: The Anatomy of Melancholy, Vol. 3
London: George Bell & Sons, 1893
A. R. Shilleto (ed.)
A. H. Bullen (introduction)
Location: The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
Reading traces on: 282.
Notes: Inscription on inside back cover: 'In Wm Alexander 282'.

Butlin, Martin: Turner at the Tate
London: The Tate Gallery, 1980

Byrne, Patrick: The Wildes of Merrion Square: The Family of Oscar Wilde
London / New York: Staples Press, 1953

Cafferty, Bernard: Spassky's 100 Best Games
London: B. T. Batsford, 1972

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

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

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'

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

Cooke, John: Handbook for Travellers in Ireland
London: John Murray, 1878
Fourth Edition, Revised
Reading traces on: 12, 13.

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

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'.

Dante Alighieri: The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory and Paradise
London: Bell and Daldy, 1869
Author's Corrected Edition
Henry Francis Cary (translation)
Inscription: '[M.G. Evershed] / £ 2,00 // Bequeathed by / M.A. Orr / to / Barbara Reynolds / Oct. 1949.'
Beckett may be referring to the 'shades' of The Divine Comedy on page 12r of the manuscript of That Time, MS-UoR-1477-1.

Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy
London: Dent; New York: Dutton, 1967
Everyman's Library n. 308
Henry Cary (translation)
Edmund Gardner (introduction)
Mario Praz (foreword)
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Beckett may be referring to the 'shades' of The Divine Comedy on page 12r of the manuscript of That Time, MS-UoR-1477-1.

Darwin, Charles: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
London: Grant Richards, 1902
Reading traces on: 11, 57, 60, 179, 187, 275, 281, 293, 405.
Notes: - pages 57, 179, 275, 281, 293 and 405 have been folded down in the past - letter to Thomas MacGreevy, 4 August 1932 (LSB I 111): 'I bought the Origin of Species yesterday for 6d and never read such badly written catlap. I only remember one thing: blue-eyed cats are always deaf (correlation of variations).'; - no markings on page 187, which deals with the caterpillar (cf. Echo's Bones, Murphy, Watt)

De Castro, Sergio: Landscapes of Light: 21st June - 14th July 1972
London: Wildenstein & Co Ltd,
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington

De Quincey, Thomas: Selected Essays of De Quincey
London / Felling-on-Tyne: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., n.d.
Sir George Douglas (introduction)
Inscription: 'S.B. Beckett / Trinity College / Dublin / March 1927'
Notes: - book stamp on inside cover of Fred Hanna, Bookseller in Nassau Street, Dublin; - includes essay 'On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts'

Defoe, Daniel: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
London: Oxford University Press, 1968 [1902]
The World's Classics
Notes: Paris bookseller's plate.

Dictionary: Cassell's Compact German-English/English-German
London: Cassell, 1966
Hans Christopher Sasse (ed.)
Joseph Horne (ed.)
Charlotte Dixon (ed.)

Dictionary: Cassell's German-English/English-German
London: Cassell, 1968
Betteridge, Harold T. (ed.)
Karl Breul (ed.)

Dictionary: A Short Biographical Dictionary of Foreign Literature
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1933
R. Farquharson Sharp (ed.)

Roget, Peter Mark: Roget's Thesaurus
London: Pan Reference Books, 1972

Dictionary: Cassell's New French-English / English-French Dictionary
London: Cassell, 1962
Denis Girard (ed.)

Dictionary: A German and English Dictionary
London: Cassell, 1930 [1909]
Karl Breul (ed.)

Dictionary: Beyond the Dictionary in German: A Handbook of Colloquial Usage
London: Cassell, 1968
B. Anderson (ed.)
M. North (ed.)

Dictionary: Dictionnaire Français-Allemand/Deutsch-Französisch
London: Cassell, 1967
Notes: telephone number written into front

Dictionary: Cassell's Compact Spanish-English/English-Spanish Dictionary
London: Pan Books, 1969
Brian Dutton (ed.)
Leonard P. Harvey (ed.)
Roger M. Walker (ed.)
Notes: bookseller's stamp in inside front cover — Shakespeare and Co. Paris

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles
London: John Murray, 1965

Duff, Charles: A New Handbook on Hanging
London: Panther Books, 1956
Inscription: "& so, To Sam, from / Yod May 1961"
Inscription: "[A New Handbook on Hanging] / ~~Charles Duff~~ / for Leslie Daiken / May 16th / 1956"

Dufy, Raoul: Raoul Dufy 1877-1953
London: Arts Council London, 1983
Inscription: for Samuel Beckett / with love and gratitude / - + great respect - / from Bryan Robertson / 17 XII '83

Dunlap, Ian: The Companion Guide to the Country around Paris
London: Collins, 1986 [1920]

Duras, Marguerite: The Sea Wall
London / Boston: Faber and Faber, 1986

John Eadie (ed.): A New Concordance to the Holy Scriptures
London: Charles Griffin & Co., 1875
John Eadie (ed.)
Inscription: 'From / Esther J.M. Calder / June 17th 1875. / To her beloved / cousin Nancy Roe / Sep 5th 1878.'

Ellmann, Richard: Oscar Wilde
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987
Inscription: 'For Sam. / With our very best wishes, / Seán & Catherine, / 13/10/'87'
Reading traces on: 4*. (*: page contains marginalia)

Ellmann, Richard: Ulysses on the Liffey
London: Faber & Faber, 1972
Inscription: 'To Sam / affectionately / from Dick / Oxford, 2 February 1972'
Reading traces on: 94*. (*: page contains marginalia)

Ellmann, Richard: Yeats: The Man and the Masks
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1949

Ellmann, Richard: Four Dubliners: Wilde, Joyce, Yeats and Beckett
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987
Inscription: For Sam, / with gratitude, / Seán O'Mórdha / Dublin / April '87'

Evelyn, John: John Evelyn's Diary
London: The Folio Society, 1965 [1963]
2nd ed.
Philip Francis (ed.)

Ferrers Howell, Alan George: Dante, His Life and Work
London: T. C. & E. C. Jack; Edinburgh: T. Nelson & Sons, 1920
rev. ed.
Inscription: S.B. Beckett / Dublin - September '27.
Notes: - bookseller's plate, Greene's Library, Dublin; - pages that have been folded down in past: 57, 71, 73, 87, 107

Fine, Reuben: Chess Marches On!: A Vivid Record of Chess Activities in the Leading Centres of the World
London: Sir Isaac Pitman, 1946 [1945]
Inscription: For Sam / Beckett — for / Fin de Partie and / Commencement de notre partie / merci, bien / Alan Schneider / Oct 12, 1957

Fischer, Bobby: My 60 Memorable Games
London: Faber & Faber, 1972

Fluchère, Henri: Laurence Sterne: From Tristram to Yorick: An Interpretation of Tristam Shandy
London: Oxford University Press, 1965
Barbara Bray (translated and abridged)
Inscription: 'For Sam from Barbara / with love. / Paris, November 1965'

Forster, Leonard: The Penguin Book of German Verse
London: Penguin, 1959 [1957]
Leonard Forster (ed.)

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn: The Life of Charlotte Brontë
London: Dent & Sons, 1960 [1908]
Everyman's Library
May Sinclair (introduction)

Gelb, Arthur and Barbara Gelb: O'Neill
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962
Notes: piece of paper inserted at page 622 [chapter XLVIII]

Gizycki, Jerzy: History of Chess
London: The Abbey Library, 1972
B. H. Wood (ed.)
Location: The private collection of Noga Arikha, New York

Gogol, Nicolai: Dead Souls
London: Oxford University Press, 1957
George Reavey (translation)
Sir Maurice Bowra (introduction)
Inscription: For Sam / Here it is the / beginning of your / eye - frozen and / unfrozen - but can / we help it except / in our selves / our self / George / NY July 25 1964

Gray, Thomas: The Poems of Thomas Gray, with a Selection of Letters and Essays
London: Dent, 1928 [1912]
Everyman

Green, John Richard: A Short History of the English People
London: Macmillan, 1920 [1916]
rev. and enlarged ed.
Inscription: 'F.E. Beckett / July 1920'

Harris, Thomas M.D.: I'm O.K., you're O.K.
London: Pan Books, 1970

Hayward, John: The Penguin Book of English Verse
London: Penguin, 1956
John Hayward (ed.)

Hibbert, Christopher: The Personal History of Samuel Johnson
London: Longman, 1971

Higgins, George V.: Three Complete Novels: The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Cogan's Trade, and The Rat on Fire
London: Robinson Publishing, 1985

Hölderlin, Friedrich: In Memoriam Friedrich Hölderlin 20 March 1770 - 7 June 1843
London: Menard Press, 1970
Inscription: "Author's copy / For Samuel Beckett / from / Michael Hamburger"

Holmes, Charles: National Gallery Trafalgar Square Illustrated Guide
London: 1931
Sixth and revised edition
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Reading traces on: iv*, 1, 3, 5, 7. (*: page contains marginalia)

Hutchins, Patricia: James Joyce's World
London: Methuen and Co. LTD, 1957

James, Henry: The Turn of the Screw, the Aspern Papers and Other Stories
London / Glasgow: Collins, 1961
Michael Swan (introduction)

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: 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: The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D
London: printed for W. Osborne, 1785
Location: The private collection of Noga Arikha, New York

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 - ''.

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: Dubliners
London: Jonathan Cape, 1954
Robin Jacques (illustrations)
Inscription: 'Noël 1956 / Josette'
Beckett seems to refer to Gabriel Conroy's 'goloshes' in The Dead on page 02r of the fifth typescript of That Time, MS-UoR-1477-6.

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: Exiles: A Play in Three Acts
London: Jonathan Cape, 1952 [1921]
Padraic Colum (introduction)
Notes: with the author's own notes

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: 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, Stanislaus: My Brother's Keeper
London: Faber & Faber, 1958
Richard Ellmann (ed.)
T.S. Eliot (preface)

Joyce, Stanislaus: The Dublin Diary of Stanislaus Joyce
London: Faber & Faber, 1962
George Harris Healey (ed.)

Kenner, Hugh: Dublin's Joyce
London: Chatto & Windus, 1955

Kilvert, Francis: Kilvert's Diary
London: Jonathan Cape, n.d.
William Plomer (ed.)
Notes: everything before page 13 missing

Lemon, Don: Everybody's Scrapbook of Curious Facts: A Book for Odd Moments
London: Saxon & Co., 1890
Inscription: 'Saml Beckett / 2/36'
Notes: previous owner's name crossed out; corners of pages 121-6 and 216 folded down

Lemprière, John: A Classical Dictionary
London: printed for T. Allman, 1831
Inscription: 'Samuel [Saml] Beckett / 2/36'
Notes: bookseller stamp inside front cover Greene & Co Dublin

Logue, Christopher: Songs
London: Hutchinson and Co., 1959
Inscription: "To Samuel Beckett, / who shall be remembered. / Christopher Logue."

Lorenz, Konrad Z.: King Solomon's Ring: New Light on Animal Ways
London: Methuen, 1965
W.H. Thorpe (introduction)

Magalaner, Marvin and Richard M. Kain: Joyce: The Man, the Work, the Reputation
London: John Calder, 1957

Maguinness, William Stuart: The Language of Lucretius
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965
D.R. Dudley (ed.)
Notes: offprint

Mandelstam, Nadezhda: Hope against Hope: A Memoir
London: Collins & Harvill Press, 1971
Max Hayward (translation)
Clarence Brown (introduction)

Marlowe, Christopher: Plays and Poems
London: Dent & Sons, 1963 [1955]
Everyman
Notes: bookseller sticker inside front cover: W.H. Smith & Son in Paris

Matthews, Honor: The Hard Journey: The Myth of Man's Rebirth
London: Chatto & Windus, 1968

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. (*: page contains marginalia)
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]'

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.'

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

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: 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: Poetical Works
London: Oxford University Press, 1969
Douglas Bush (ed.)
Notes: bookseller's note on inside front cover: '19 00 pb'

Moore, George: The Lake
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1932
Location: The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris

Moore, George: Héloïse and Abélard
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1926 [1921]
Location: The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris

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: '1^st Ed. / Hodgson / 30/3/33 / price [£5] erased'

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

Morten, Honnor: The Nurse's Dictionary of Medical Terms and Nursing Treatment
London: The Scientific Press, 1895
3rd rev. ed.

National Gallery: National Gallery Trafalgar Square Catalogue
London: 1929
Eighty-Sixth Edition
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Inscription: Samuel Beckett / 34 Gertrude Street / London S.W. 10
Reading traces on: 2*, 46*, 58*, 125, 148*, 159, 161, 194*, 217*, 273*, 274*, 278*, 282*, 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 316, 317, 337*, 340*, 341*, 372*, 392*, 404, 406. (*: page contains marginalia)

O'Casey, Sean: The Silver Tassie
London: Macmillan, 1928
Reading traces on: 140*. (*: page contains marginalia)

Oulton, Thérèse: Lachrimae
London: Marlborough London, 1988
Notes: exhibition catalogue January - February 1988

Palgrave, Francis: The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs & Lyrical Poems in the English Language
London: Macmillan & Co., 1862
Francis Palgrave (ed.)
Reading traces on: 73*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: book plate on flyleaf 'Dannie Belas'

Pepys, Samuel: The Diary of Samuel Pepys
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1920 [1906]
Notes: 2 volumes; corner of page 10 folded down in volume 2

Pinter, Harold, Geoffrey Godbert and Anthony Astbury: 100 Poems by 100 Poets: An Anthology
London: Methuen/Greville Press, 1986
Inscription: To: Samuel Beckett / in respect and admiration / Geoffrey Godbert & Tony Astbury / London, 1988
Notes: unsent card to Bettina Calder inserted at page 78: 30.6.89 / Dear Bettina / Thanks for your enclosure / Too shaky for a meeting just now. Désolé.

Pinter, Harold: Arthur Wellard 1902-1980
London: Villiers Publications, 1981
Inscription: To Sam / from / Harold

Pinter, Harold: Landscape and Silence
London: Methuen, 1969
Inscription: July 69 / To Sam / from Harold
Notes: - contains TS of poem 'All of That'; - corrections to the text, in HP's hand, on pages 45-46 / 51

Pinter, Harold: Mac
London: Pendragon Press, 1968
Inscription: August 69 / To Sam / from Harold
Notes: number 447 of 2000 copies

Pinter, Harold: One for the Road
London: Methuen, 1985 [1984]
Inscription: To Sam / from / Harold

Pinter, Harold: Other Places: Three Plays
London: Methuen, 1982
Inscription: To Sam / love / Harold

Pinter, Harold: Poems
London: Enitharmon Press, 1968
[hbk]
Alan Clodd (selection)
Inscription: To Sam / from Harold
Notes: copy 33 of 200 signed by author

Pinter, Harold: Poems
London: Enitharmon Press, 1968
[pbk]
Inscription: Samuel Beckett / with kind regards / from Alan Clodd.
Notes: inserted at front: typescripts of poems 'Message' and 'The Doing So'

Pinter, Harold: Poems
London: Enitharmon Press, 1971 [1968]
2nd ed., with additional poems
Inscription: Harold Pinter [signed]

Pinter, Harold: The Birthday Party and Other Plays
London: Methuen, 1960
Inscription: Jan 61. / To Sam Beckett / from / Harold Pinter

Pinter, Harold: The Hothouse
London: Methuen, 1980
Inscription: To Sam / from / Harold

Plautus: Plautus in Four Volumes, vol. 1
London: Heinemann, 1916
Paul Nixon (translation)
Reading traces on: 258*, 346, 446. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: The entire book, up until first act of The Captives, is heavily marked, with words and lines underlined with crayon, and in particular brown and blue pencils; the occasional cross. Most of the markings are in the Latin text, on verso pages. Three sample scans taken: 258 / 346 / 446. Includes Amphytrion, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, Bachides or The Two Bacchises, The Captives.

Pole, David: The Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein
London: The Athlone Press, 1958

The Prayer Book as proposed in 1928 (The Book of Common Prayer)
London: Cambridge University Press, n.d.
Beckett seems to allude to a prayer for the dead from the Book of Common Prayer on page 04r of the third typescript of Footfalls, MS-UoR-1552-4.

Pyle, Hilary: Jack B. Yeats: A Biography
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970
Inscription: Samuel Beckett / with best wishes / from Alan Clodd

Reavey, George: Soviet Literature Today
London: Lindsay Drummond, 1946
Inscription: Sam / bien amicalement / George / June '47
Notes: - inserted into rear of book, what appears to have been a book plate with 'official representatives of British Culture, Archangel, 1942' — with George Reavey one of the three men;- signed by Reavey: 'Sam / après la [torpille] / George'

Royal Academy of Arts in London: Goya and his times: Royal Academy Winter Exhibition 1963-4
London: Royal Academy of Arts in London,
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Reading traces on: backcover*. (*: page contains marginalia)

Shakespeare, William: The Works of William Shakspeare
London / New York: Frederick Warne and Co, n.d.
The "Universal" Edition
Reading traces on: 225, 808, 811, 821, 823, 946insert*, 1087*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: scrap of a diary inserted page 946-47 (Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, scenes 3 and 4): 'Avigdor PLM 11 (photo) / Briquets / foie / whiskey' We owe a debt of gratitude to James Little for offering a correction to the title.
Beckett seems to allude to King Lear on page 16v of the 'Kilcool' Notebook, MS-TCD-4664. He quotes from the The Tempest on page 02r of the third typescript of Not I, MS-UoR-1227-7-12-4.

Shakespeare, William: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
London / New York / Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1957 [1954]
Notes: insert (bread wrapper) stuck on page 596 [opening of Richard III]; book ribbon at page 612
Beckett seems to allude to King Lear on page 16v of the 'Kilcool' Notebook, MS-TCD-4664. He quotes from the The Tempest on page 02r of the third typescript of Not I, MS-UoR-1227-7-12-4, and alludes to Sonnet 30 on page 02r of the third typescript of Not I, MS-UoR-1227-7-12-4.

Shakespeare, Wiliam: The Sonnets
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1988
M. R. Ridley (ed.)

Smith, William: A Smaller History of Rome
London: James Walton/John Murray, 1868
Inscription: 'Lily Verschoyle'
Notes: - owner's name on title page: 'Lily Verschoyle';- inside cover bookseller's sticker: Greene & Co., Dublin

Smollett, Tobias: The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker
London: Hutchinson, n.d.
Inscription: 'Samuel Beckett'
Notes: - bottom corners of pages 150 and 152 folded down — looks unintentional;- inside cover — Greene & Co Dublin stamp

Somervell, David: A Companion to Palgrave's Golden Treasury
London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1918 [1917]
Inscription: 'S. B. Beckett / Trinity College, Dublin / 1924'

Spinoza, Baruch: Ethics, and 'De Intellectus Emendatione'
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, n.d.
Reading traces on: vii*, 1, 2, 3*, 5, 6, 7, 8*, 9*, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: ex libris bookplate: 'This Premium was adjudged to A. J. Leventhal for Latin at the Examination held in Wesley College Dublin Xmas-Easter 1911-12 [signed by Principal Irwin]'
Spinoza is mentioned several times in Beckett's 'German Diaries' and in his letters. His name occurs in an early draft of Fin de partie / Endgame.

Sterne, Laurence: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
London: Oxford University Press, 1959 [1903]
The World's Classics
Notes: - piece of paper inserted on page 24, beginning of chapter 11; - bookseller price on flyleaf: 8/6

Sterne, Laurence: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
London: Oxford University Press, 1910 [1903]
The World's Classics, 2nd repr. ed.
Reading traces on: 14.
Notes: - from The Works of Laurence Sterne, Volume 1; - ex Libris 'A. J. Leventhal'; - book ribbon at page 166-67

Stobart, J. C.: The Grandeur That Was Rome
London: Sidwick and Jackson, 1961 [1912]
4th ed.
W. S. Maguinness (ed.)
H. H. Scullard (ed.)

Stopp, Frederick J.: A Manual of Modern German
London: University Tutorial Press, 1969 [1960]
2nd ed.
Notes: bookseller info on front inside cover: '£1.90'

Stuckenschmidt, H. H.: Arnold Schoenberg
London: Calder, 1959
Edith Temple Roberts (tranlation)
Humphrey Searle (tranlation)

Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver's Travels
London: Oxford University Press, 1963 [1902]
The World's Classics
John Hayward (ed.)

Swift, Jonathan: The Drapier's Letters
London: G. Bell & Sons, 1922
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. VI
Temple Scott (ed.)
Reading traces on: 67*, 104*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: price on inside back cover: 6/

Thompson, A. Hamilton: A History of English Literature, and of the Chief English Writers
London: John Murray, 1914
Revised edition
Inscription: S. B. Beckett / feb. 1923
Reading traces on: 143, 149, 171*, 180, 192, 214, 215, 223, 276, 291, 303, 319, 386, 438, 510, 540. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: pages 309, 311, 511, 523, 601, 603, 605, 645 and 647 have been folded down.

Thrale, Hester Lynch: Dr Johnson by Mrs Thrale: 'The Anecdotes' of Mrs. Piozzi in their Original Form
London: Chatto & Windus, 1984
Richard Ingrams (ed.)

Turner, J. M. W.: Turner 1775-1851
London: The Tate Gallery, 1975 [1974]
exhibition catalogue

Vladislav, Jan: Václav Havel or Living in Truth
London: Faber & Faber, 1986
Jan Vladislav (ed.)

Vulliamy, C.E.: Mrs. Thrale of Streatham: Her Place in the Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson and in the Society of her Time, Her Character and Family Affairs, Reviewed in the Light of Newly Assembled Evidence
London: Jonathan Cape, 1936
Inscription: e libris / G. Whitfield / [Xxxxxxx] 15 Dec. 1938.
Notes: - corner of page 21 folded down; - the number 68 is written on back inside cover; - bookseller's sticker and information ('Lit. // 3/6') on inside front cover.

The Waddington Galleries: Jack B. Yeats
London: 1963
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington

The Waddington Galleries: Jack B. Yeats
London: 1965
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington

The Waddington Galleries: Jack B. Yeats
London: 1965
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Reading traces on: index-1*, index-2*. (*: page contains marginalia)

The Waddington Galleries: Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957): Early watercolors
London: 1961
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington

Wade, Robert G. and Kevin J. O'Connell: The Games of Robert J. Fischer
London: B.T. Batsford, 1972

Walton, Isaak: The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert, Sanderson
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d.
Inscription: Beckett crossed out the previous owner's name (Wallis) and replaced it with his own inscription: 'Samuel Beckett / 4/36'
Reading traces on: 17.
Notes: The Greene & Co. Dublin Bookseller stamp can be found on the inside of the front cover.

Weekley, Ernest: A Concise Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
London: John Murray, 1924
Ernest Weekley (ed.)
Inscription: 'Saml Beckett /2/36'
Notes: bookseller's info on inside front cover '8/3 1/2/3[6]-'

Wenman, P.: Thirty Two-Movers
London: The Mitre Press, 1946
Inscription: Feb. 1973. For Samuel Beckett from / Peter Gidal

Wilson, Harriette: Hariette Wilson's Memoirs
London: Century Publishing, 1985

Wilson, P.G.: Teach yourself German Grammar
London: The English Universities Press, 1966 [1950]

Wittgenstein, Ludwig: The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961
D. F. Pars (translation)
B. F. McGuinness (translation)
Bertrand Russell (introduction)
Reading traces on: x, xii, xiii, xvi, xvii, xviii, xx, xxi, xxii.

Woodforde, James: The Diary of a Country Parson 1758-1802
London: Oxford University Press, 1967 [1935]
The World's Classics
John Beresford (ed.)
Notes: bookseller's sticker inside front cover: Galignani Paris

Worth, Katharine: Oscar Wilde
London / Basingstoke: MacMillan, 1983
Inscription: For Samuel Beckett / With affectionate admiration / from Katharine Worth / November 1983.

Wyatt, A. J. and W. H. Low: Intermediate Text Book of English Literature, Vol. 1
London: W. B. Clive, University Tutorial Press Ltd., 1920
Inscription: ~~Jean Franklin / 1923~~ / Samuel B. Beckett / Trinity College / Dublin. / Michaelmas Term - 1923
Reading traces on: 61*, 62*, 63*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: bookseller's stamp on inside front cover: [Fred Hannah] Dublin

Wyatt, A. J. and W. H. Low: Intermediate Text Book of English Literature, Vol. 2
London: W. B. Clive, University Tutorial Press Ltd., 1920
Inscription: S. B. Beckett / Trinity College, Dublin / 1925
Notes: bookseller's stamp on inside front cover: [Fred Hannah] Dublin.

Yeats, Jack Butler: The Careless Flower
London: The Pilot Press, 1947
Inscription: To Samuel Beckett / from Jack B. Yeats / Dublin July 1948 / with all good thoughts / but very sorry I forgot / to send this book before. / As it wasn't in the spirit of / Careless Flower to forget - / for that flower doesn't / forget old friends
Notes: marginalia: small correction on page 157

Yeats, Jack Butler: The Charmed Life
London: Routledge & Sons, 1938
Notes: inserted on page 118, exhibition card for Jack B. Yeats Retrospective 1906-1955 at Waddington Galleries in London

Yeats, William Butler: The Collected Plays
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd., 1960 [1934]
2nd ed. reprise
Notes: bookseller sticker on inside front cover: 'Galignani, Rue de Rivoli, Paris'

Yeats, William Butler: The Collected Poems
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd., 1955 [1933]
2nd ed. reprise

Yeats, William Butler: The Senate Speeches of W. B. Yeats
London: Faber and Faber, 1961
Donald R. Pearce (ed.)

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. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: date seems to be 1943, but title page says MDCCCCIII. The marginalia in this book are unlikely to be Beckett's.

Yung, Kai Kin: Samuel Johnson 1709-84
London: The Herbert Press, 1984
With essays by John Wain, W. W. Robinson and David Fleeman

Blakeney, E. H.: A Smaller Classical Dictionary
London & Toronto: 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

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. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: marginal corrections presumably in Kay Boyle's hand

Hedberg, Johannes: Pieces on Joyce
Lund: The James Joyce Society of Sweden and Finland, 1986
Inscription: 'To Samuel Beckett, / with the compliments / of the author, / Johannes Hedberg'
Notes: adorned ex libris of Bishop of Limerick, 1925

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)

Flannery, James W.: W. B. Yeats and the Idea of a Theatre
New Haven / London: Yale University Press, 1976
Inscription: 'To Samuel Beckett, with / profound admiration and / respect. / James W Flannery / Kingston. Rhode Island / February 1977'

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.)

Berenson, Mary: A Self-Portrait from Her Letters & Diaries
New York / London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1983
Barbara Strachey and Jayne Samuels (ed.)

Ellmann, Richard: James Joyce
New York / London / Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1965 [1959]
Inscription: 'To Sam / from Dick / 14 January 1972'
Notes: first part of book appears unread, but the spine is broken at pages 624, 690, and 718: the first two of which deal with Lucia Joyce

Baedeker, Karl: Paris et ses environs
Paris / Leipzig: Larousse, 1947
Inscription: 'S.B. Beckett'

Dictionary: Harrap's Shorter French and English Dictionary
Paris: Bordas; London: Harrap, 1967
3rd ed.
J.E Mansion (ed.)

Bate, W. Jackson: Samuel Johnson
San Diego / New York / London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, n.d.

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