Samuel Beckett
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Leopardi, Giacomo: I Canti
Milan: Casa per Edizioni Popolari, 1936
Ettore Fabietti (ed.)
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
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
Dictionary: Cassell's German-English/English-German
London: Cassell, 1968
Betteridge, Harold T. (ed.)
Karl Breul (ed.)
Dictionary: Cassell's New French-English / English-French Dictionary
London: Cassell, 1962
Denis Girard (ed.)
Dictionary: Cassell's Compact German-English/English-German
London: Cassell, 1966
Hans Christopher Sasse (ed.)
Joseph Horne (ed.)
Charlotte Dixon (ed.)
Catalogue: Catalogue of Pictures and other Works of Art in the National Gallery of Ireland and the National Portrait Gallery
Dublin: Wood Printing Works, Ltd., 1928
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Inscription: Samuel Beckett 6, Clare Street – Dublin
Reading traces on: 46*, 81, 99, 104, 105*, 114, 115, 116, 174, 176, 193*, 224*, 227*, 259*, 277*, 288*, 301*, 309*, 310*, 311*, 326*, 341*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: Printed for the Stationary Office
Catalogue Beaux-Arts: Sciences Humaines
Paris: Hermann, 1989
National Gallery of Ireland: Catalogue of Oil Pictures in the General Collection
Dublin: Stationary Office, 1932
Sixth and revised edition
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Reading traces on: 142.
Collins Baker, C.H.: Catalogue of the Pictures at Hampton Court
Glasgow: Robert Maclehose and Company Limited; University Press Glasgow, 1929
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Notes: A Catalogue by the Surveyor of the King's Pictures (C.H. Collins Baker), printed for The Lord Chamberlain
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)
Moore, George: Celibate Lives
Leipzig: Tauchnitz Edition, 1927
Célice, Pierre: Célice le cancre: reproductions de ses travaux
Paris: Les Editions de la Gamelle, n.d.
Joyce, James: Chamber Music
London: Jonathan Cape, 1949 [1927]
4th impression
Inscription: '9/III/49'
Notes: Shakespeare and Co. sticker on inside back cover
Arnaud, Claude: Chamfort: Biographie, suivie de soixante-six maximes, anecdotes, mots et dialogues inédits, ou jamais réédités
Paris: Éditions Rorbert Laffont, 1988
Inscription: Pour Samuel Beckett, / en témoignage de très grande admiration, / Claude Arnaud
Notes: - piece of cardboard inserted on page 17;- envelope addressed to SB inserted page 27
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
Pinget, Robert: Charrue
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1985
Inscription: Pour Sam & Suzanne / affectueusement / R / 22.3.85
Céline, Louis Ferdinand: D'un château l'autre
Paris: Gallimard, 1969 [1957]
Folio
Roycraft, A.J.: The Chess Endgame Study: A Comprehensive Introduction
New York: Dover, 1981 [1972]
2nd rev ed.
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
Abrahams, Gerald: The Chess Mind
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964 [1960]
2nd edition
Yeats, William Butler: Choix de poèmes
Paris: Aubier-Montaigne, 1975
Collection Bilingue
Réne Fréchet (edited and translated)
Notes: bookseller leaflet attached inside front cover: 'Joseph Gibert, Boulevard St. Michel, Paris'
Descartes, René: Choix de textes
Paris: Louis-Michaud Editions, n.d.
Les grands philosophes français et étrangers
L. Debricon (ed.)
Inscription: 'Jean Beaufret'
Reading traces on: 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 34, 46, 75, 94, 95, 96, 106, 107, 114*, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 122*, 123, 125*, 126*, 127, 200insertrecto*, 200insertverso*, backflyleaf*, backcover*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: - the book is inscribed by Jean Beaufret, and it appears as if the marginal notes were made by him, although notes on the back cover could be in SB's hand; - page with handwritten notes inserted page 200-201, appears to be by Beaufret
Arrabal, Fernando: Chroniques de l'express: Les échecs féeriques et libertaires
Monaco: Éditions du Rocher, 1980
Inscription: Pour Samuel Beckett / Avec mon admiration / F. Arrabal / (Samuel Arrabal / a déjà 8 ans)
Cioran, E.M.: La Chute dans le temps
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1964
Les Essais CXIV
Inscription: 'Pour Samuel et Suzanne Beckett / avec toute mon amitié / [signed].
Notes: postcard [of S. Margherita] inserted, probably as reading place holder, on page 95
Goya: 120 dibujos del Museo del Prado
Madrid: Ediciones Alfiz, 1980
Alfonso E. Pérez Sanchéz (ed.)
Inscription: For Samuel Beckett, / with love and gratitude / for his beautiful work. / Antonia / Abril 1986.
Ingres, J.A.D.: 53 Dessins sur le vif du Musée Ingres et du Musée du Louvre
Jerusalem: Musée d'Israel, 1981
Avigdor Arikha (ed.)
Notes: inserted at front small programme of the exhibition
Grimal, Pierre: La Civilisation Romaine
Paris: Arthaud, 1960
Reading traces on: 419*, 448*, 457*. (*: page contains marginalia)
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
O'Brien, Eoin: A Closing Memoir: The Richmond Whitworth and Hardwicke Hospitals
Dublin: Anniversary Press, 1988
L. Browne (ed.)
K. O'Malley (ed.)
Aveline, Claude: Le Code des jeux
Paris: Hachette, 1961
Ernst, Max: Les collages: inventaire et contradictions
Paris: Gallimard, 1984
Werner Spies (ed.)
Inscription: 'à Sam de tout coeur / son ami / Werner'
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'
Egan, Desmond: Collected Poems
 Maine: The National Poetry Foundation; Newbridge: The Goldsmith Press, 1984
Inscription: 'August 1984 / For Sam Beckett / the living writer whom I / admire most / in fear and trembling! / - and with my warmest / regards and wishes / [signed]
MacGreevy, Thomas: Collected Poems
Dublin: New Writers' Press, 1971
Thomas Dillon Redshaw (ed.)
Samuel Beckett (foreword)
Reading traces on: 11*, 12*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Yeats, William Butler: The Collected Poems
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd., 1955 [1933]
2nd ed. reprise
Devlin, Denis: Collected Poems of Denis Devlin
Dublin: The Dedalus Press, 1989
J.C.C. Mays (ed.)
Notes: dust wrapper is inserted into page 30
Reavey, George: The Colours of Memory
New York: Grove Press, 1955
Inscription: "For Sam / admiring the single way / ever / George / NY 1955"
Dux, Pierre: La Comédie française racontée par Pierre Dux
Paris: Librairie Académique Perrin, 1981
Inscription: 'A monsieur Samuel Beckett / avec mon admiration / et mon amitié / Pierre Dux / 22.1.83'
Notes: place of publication is speculative
Shakespeare, William: Comme il vous plaira
Paris: Aubier-Montaigne, 1976 [1956]
Jean-Jacques Mayoux (translation)
Beckett, Samuel: Comment c'est
Les Éditions de Minuit,
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Inscription: pour / Avigdor et Anne / leur ami / Sam. Beckett / Paris janvier / 1961
Reading traces on: insert*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Dictionary: The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971
Notes: complete text reproduced micrographically; 2 volumes
Dunlap, Ian: The Companion Guide to the Country around Paris
London: Collins, 1986 [1920]
Somervell, David: A Companion to Palgrave's Golden Treasury
London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1918 [1917]
Inscription: 'S. B. Beckett / Trinity College, Dublin / 1924'
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
Pachman, Ludek: Complete Chess Strategy: First Principles of the Middle Game
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1975
John Littlewood (translation)
Location: The private collection of Noga Arikha, New York
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
Kavanagh, Patrick: The Complete Poems
Newbridge: The Goldsmith Press, 1984 [1972]
Peter Kavanagh (ed.)
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.
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]-'
Dictionary: The Concise Oxford Dictionary
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983
Notes: second copy
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'
Dostoievski, Fjodor: La Confession de Stavroguine
Paris: Librairie Plon, 1923
13th ed.
E. Halpérine-Kaminsky (translation)
Notes: - marginalia: inside cover scribble '[surhomme?]' - probably not SB's hand; - paper inserted at page xxxvii, the 'introduction du traducteur'
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'
Lasserre, Pierre: Un Conflit religieux au XIIe siècle: Abélard contre Saint Bernard
Paris: Artisan du livre, 1930
Notes: page with previous owner's name cut
Michaux, Henri: Connaissance par les gouffres
Paris: Gallimard, 1961
Notes: card with sketch inserted page 72; column with numbers on back flyleaf
Proust, Marcel: Contre Sainte-Beuve, suivi de Nouveaux mélanges
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1954
Notes: piece of paper inserted at page 56
Le Coran
Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, 1970
O'Connor, Conleth: A Corpse Auditions its Mourners - New and Selected Poems
Dublin: Raven Arts Press, 1987
Chekhov, Anton and Maxime Gorki: Correspondance d'Anton Tchékhov et Maxime Gorki
Paris: Les éditeurs français réunis, 1972
Renard, Jules: Correspondance de Jules Renard 1864–1910
Paris: François Bernouard, 1928
Notes: - volume as those of the Journal, i.e. a kind of fifth volume; - this is number 379 of 3075 copies
Dostoievski, Fjodor: Le Crime et le châtiment
Paris: Librairie Plon, [1884]
35th ed.
Victor Derély (translation)
Benstock, Bernard: Critical Essays on James Joyce
Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1985
Bernard Benstock (ed.)
Christ, Yvan and G. Franceschi: Les cryptes mérovingiennes de l'abbaye de Jouarre
Paris: Éditions d'histoire et d'art, 1966
Pierre Gustave Brunet (ed.): Curiosités Théologiques
Paris: Garnier Frères, Libraires-Éditeurs, n.d. [1884]
Nouvelle édition
Pierre Gustave Brunet (ed.)
Reading traces on: 4, 5, 9*, 10, 11, 13, 23, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 62, 63, 64*, 65, 66, 68, 69, 71, 73*, 75, 76, 77, 80, 83, 91, 93, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 107, 110, 121, 122, 133, 135, 137, 148, 168*, 350*, 351*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: - possibly previous owner's name on cover in pencil; - front cover loose
Lalanne, Ludovic: Curiosités littéraires
Paris: Adolphe Delahays, 1857
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Reading traces on: 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 105, 126insert*, 155, 156, 176, 179, 192, 193, 292, 294, 295, 296, 302*, 303, 304, 305, 374, 375*, 376, 377, 409. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: includes shopping list of SB used as bookmark
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