Samuel Beckett
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 		O'Brien, Eoin: A. J. Leventhal: Dublin Scholar, Wit and Man of Letters 1896-1979
Dublin: The Con Leventhal Scholarship Committee, 1984
Inscription: To Samuel Beckett / In gratitude, / Eoin O'Brien / 24 II 1984
Proust, Marcel: À la recherche du temps perdu: Du Côté de chez Swann *
Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1928
Inscription: 'S. B. Beckett''P / Samuel Beckett // 254,041''For / Reading University Library / Samuel Beckett / april 1973'
Reading traces on: 11, 18, 19, 22, 24, 25, 30, 33, 36, 39, 41, 42, 45, 46, 47, 49, 50, 51, 53, 55, 59, 64, 68, 69, 70, 71, 73, 77, 78, 79, 82, 84, 93, 98, 99, 100, 101, 107, 112, 116, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 135, 139, 140, 144, 147, 154, 163, 166, 173, 175, 193, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 224, 226, 249, 256, 257, 258, 264, 265, 286, 289, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304.
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Proust, Marcel: À la recherche du temps perdu: Du Côté de chez Swann **
Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1926
Inscription: 'S. B. Beckett''P / Samuel Beckett // 254,042'
Reading traces on: 14, 23, 29, 33, 34, 41, 51, 54, 74, 102, 103, 106, 152, 155, 175, 179, 183, 187, 190, 192, 194, 197, 198, 208, 234, 249, 252, 257, 258, 268, 269, 282, 295, 298, 300, 301.
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
on page(s): 33 [zone 1]
Proust, Marcel: À la recherche du temps perdu: À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs **
Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1929
Inscription: 'P / Samuel Beckett // 254,043'
Reading traces on: 13, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 36, 59, 60, 61, 75, 77, 78, 79, 91, 97, 99, 100, 105, 148, 155, 156, 158, 161, 164, 165, 166, 167, 184, 185, 187, 188, 189.
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Proust, Marcel: À la recherche du temps perdu: À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs ***
Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1929
Inscription: '[Insolence]''P / Samuel Beckett // 254,044'
Reading traces on: 59, 71, 72, 73, 74, 81, 82, 98, 99, 137, 139, 145, 146, 148, 151, 155, 215.
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Proust, Marcel: À la recherche du temps perdu: Le Côté de Guermantes I
Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1927
Inscription: '9007677342''P / Samuel Beckett // 254,045'
Reading traces on: 11, 38, 43, 44, 45, 46, 60, 61, 63, 68, 76, 79, 82, 101, 102, 105, 110, 112, 122, 126, 127, 144, 162, 226, 245, 265, 266, 272, 273.
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Proust, Marcel: À la recherche du temps perdu: Le Côté de Guermantes II Sodome et Gomorrhe I
Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1927
Inscription: '9007677351''P / Samuel Beckett // 254,046'
Reading traces on: 12, 15, 19, 20, 26, 36, 37, 40, 41, 42, 43, 50, 51, 53, 54, 58, 61, 75, 76, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 95, 96, 101, 103, 107, 173, 196, 217, 228, 229, 259.
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Proust, Marcel: À la recherche du temps perdu: Sodome et Gomorrhe II *
Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1927
Inscription: 'P / Samuel Beckett // 254,047'
Reading traces on: 13, 24, 25, 27, 30, 31, 32, 33, 43, 74, 75, 121, 139, 142, 144, 145, 146, 152, 153, 157, 169, 172, 174, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 186, 188, 195, 203, 208, 210, 213, 215, 216, 217.
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
on page(s): 208 [zone 1]
Proust, Marcel: À la recherche du temps perdu: Sodome et Gomorrhe II **
Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1927
Reading traces on: 8, 12, 15, 19, 21, 23, 33, 43, 54, 55, 66, 67, 70, 95, 96, 100, 121, 131, 141, 144, 146, 148, 149, 150, 159, 160, 168, 178, 188, 189, 210, 211, 213, 218, 219.
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Proust, Marcel: À la recherche du temps perdu: Sodome et Gomorrhe II ***
Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1927
Inscription: 'P / Samuel Beckett // 254,049'
Reading traces on: 24, 25, 32, 38, 39, 44, 45, 51, 52, 55, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 82, 83, 87, 90, 95, 106, 107, 124, 125, 126, 159, 165, 174, 191, 198, 207, 209, 210, 211, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 227, 230, 231, 232, 233, 235, 236.
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Proust, Marcel: À la recherche du temps perdu: La Prisonnière (Sodome et Gomorrhe III) *
Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1927
Inscription: 'P / Samuel Beckett // 254,110'
Reading traces on: 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 41, 76, 91, 92, 93, 104, 105, 112, 116, 117, 124, 128, 130, 135, 142, 144, 145, 148, 149, 158, 165, 205, 215, 217, 234, 244, 259, 260, 261, 267.
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Proust, Marcel: À la recherche du temps perdu: La Prisonnière (Sodome et Gomorrhe III) **
Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1927
Inscription: 'Innocence''P / Samuel Beckett // 254,111'
Reading traces on: 12, 19, 35, 52, 62, 63, 71, 72, 73, 74, 77, 78, 79, 110, 111, 112, 124, 168, 195, 207, 208, 214, 215, 223, 226, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 246, 247, 249, 256, 268.
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Proust, Marcel: À la recherche du temps perdu: Albertine disparue *
Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1926
Inscription: 'P / Samuel Beckett // 254,112'
Reading traces on: 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 25, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 38, 39, 41, 42, 53, 57, 58, 62, 63, 70, 71, 75, 81, 82, 100, 101, 110, 115, 118, 119, 121, 126, 128, 129, 130, 131, 139, 152, 164, 166, 169, 173, 182, 188, 203, 205, 223.
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Proust, Marcel: À la recherche du temps perdu: Albertine disparue **
Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1926
Inscription: 'P / Samuel Beckett // 254,113'
Reading traces on: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, 32, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 74, 77, 83, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 94, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 105, 110, 114, 117, 135, 137, 142, 144, 149, 154, 155, 161, 173, 178, 183, 204, 206, 207, 208, 211.
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Proust, Marcel: À la recherche du temps perdu: Le Temps retrouvé *
Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1929
Inscription: 'P / Samuel Beckett // 254,114'
Reading traces on: 8, 9, 11, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 109, 165, 198, 199, 207, 210, 212, 220, 227, 228, 232, 233, insbackcover.
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Proust, Marcel: À la recherche du temps perdu: Le Temps retrouvé **
Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1929
Reading traces on: 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 34, 40, 41, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 59, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 72, 73, 77, 79, 80, 81, 90, 98, 100, 101, 104, 110, 114, 125, 168, 172, 174, 177, 178, 227, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 251, 256, 257, 258, 260, 261, lastpage.
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel von: Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus
Leipzig: Insel Verlag, n.d.
Weiss, Peter: Abschied von den Eltern
Frankfurt, a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1961
Büttner, Gottfried: Absurdes Theater und Bewusstseinswandel
Berlin-Wilmersdorf: Westliche Berliner Verlagsgesellschaft Heenemann, 1968
Inscription: "und mit sehr herzlichen / Grüßen und Wünschen / geschenkt zur Weinachtszeit 1968 / Gottfried Büttner / Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe, 22. Dezember 68"
Havel, Vaclav: Acceptance Speech Written on the Occasion of the Award of the Erasmus Prize 1986
Amsterdam: Foundation Praemium Erasmianum, 1986
Coffey, Brian: Advent
London: The Menard Press, 1986
Die Ägyptische Sammlung: mit zwei grundrissen und einem saalbild
Berlin: Verlag Karl Curtius, 1933
Reading traces on: 46, 47.
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Notes: Führer durch die Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
Die Ägyptische Sammlung: Vor- und Frühzeit und Altes Reich
Berlin: 1936
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Notes: Führer durch die Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
Ältere Pinakothek München
Munich: Amtlicher Katalog, 1936
Reading traces on: frontinsidecover, 15, 234.
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)
Burton, Robert: The Anatomy of Melancholy, Vol. 1
London: George Bell & Sons, 1893
A. R. Shilleto (ed.)
A. H. Bullen (introduction)
Inscription: 'for Anne / with love / from Sam / Paris / may 77'
Reading traces on: 85, 86, 91, 92, 93, 109, 117, 165, 192, 205, 214, 279, 283, 285, 298, 308, 343, 346, 348insert, 356, 360, 362, 373, 378, 390, 391, 400, 427, 431, 457, 459, 497.
Location: The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
Burton, Robert: The Anatomy of Melancholy, Vol. 2
London: George Bell & Sons, 1893
A. R. Shilleto (ed.)
A. H. Bullen (introduction)
Reading traces on: 45, 48, 69, 78, 79, 85, 86, 87, 97, 100, 102, 115, 133, 134, 138, 139, 152, 153, 154, 175, 208, 209.
Location: The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
Burton, Robert: The Anatomy of Melancholy, Vol. 3
London: George Bell & Sons, 1893
A. R. Shilleto (ed.)
A. H. Bullen (introduction)
Reading traces on: 282.
Location: The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
Notes: Inscription on inside back cover: 'In [Wm] Alexander 282'.
de Rache, André: André Masson
Knokke: André de Rache, 1969
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Notes: Gemeentelijke Casino Casino Communal
Vaissière, Robert de la: Anthologie poètique du XXe siècle, Vol. 1
Paris: Les Editions G. Crès et Cie., 1923
Reading traces on: 4, 5, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 27, 28, 29, 31, 33, 35, 36, 37, 42, 44, 45, 50, 51, 52, 58, 66, 83, 106, 110, 113, 122, 144, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 159, 162, 168, 177, 226, 249, 251, 253, 254.
Notes: front page missing
Allem, Maurice: Anthologie poétique française du XVIe Siècle: Poèmes choisis, avec introduction, notices et notes, Vol. 2
Paris: Librairie Garnier Frères, n.d.
Notes:
- empty envelope inserted on page 142-3 [Vauquelin de la Fresnaye (1535?-1606)];
- pages at end of book with book notices uncut
Pinget, Robert: L'Apocryphe
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1980
Inscription: Pour Sam & Suzanne / affectueusement / R.
Billy, André: Apollinaire
Paris: Seghers, 1956
Blanchot, Maurice: Après coup
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1983
Stuckenschmidt, H. H.: Arnold Schoenberg
London: Calder, 1959
Edith Temple Roberts (tranlation)
Humphrey Searle (tranlation)
Henry, Françoise: Art Irlandais
Dublin: Colmm O Lochlainn, 1954
Inscription: Suzanne / souvenir de l'Empereur / et Monique de la Bruchollerie / Tom, Paris 18 mars. 1956
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Notes: IMPRIMÉ POUR LE COMITÉ DES RELATIONS CULTURELLES
D'IRLANDE PAR COLM O LOCHLAINN, A DUBLIN
A L'ENSEIGNE DES TROIS FLAMBEAUX
Pinter, Harold: Arthur Wellard 1902-1980
London: Villiers Publications, 1981
Inscription: To Sam / from / Harold
Havel, Vaclav: Audience, vernissage, pétition
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1980
Marcel Aymonin and Stephan Meldegg (translation)
Milan Kundera (preface)
Unseld, Siegfried: Der Autor und sein Verleger: Vorlesungen in Mainz und Austin
Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1978
Inscription: To / Sam / cordially / [signed]
Wolff, Kurt: Autoren/Bücher/Abenteuer, Betrachtungen und Erinnerungen eines Verlegers
Berlin: Klaus Wagenbach, n.d.
Notes: corner of page 79 has been folded down at some point
Pinget, Robert: Autour de mortin
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1965
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.
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'
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]'
Arikha, Avigdor: Avigdor Arikha
Paris: Hermann, 1985
Inscription: Pour mon cher Sam / Son ami affectueux, / Avigdor
Notes:
- Postcard from AA to SB inserted in front: 'Cher Sam, / Pense à toi, espère que / tu vas de mieux en / mieux. Affectueusement, / [Avigdor] // Monsieur Samuel Beckett / 38 Bld. Saint-Jacques / 75014 Paris / France'.
- Texts by R. Chanin, Fermigier, R. Hughes, J. Livingstone, B. Rose and Samuel Beckett.
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