Samuel Beckett
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Pinter, Harold: Mac
London: Pendragon Press, 1968
Inscription: August 69 / To Sam / from Harold
Notes: number 447 of 2000 copies
Shakespeare, William: Macbeth
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1922
A.W. Verity, M.A. (ed.)
Inscription: 'm / S. B. Beckett. / Portora. / VIth Form / September 1922'
Reading traces on: tp1*, 6*, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19*, 21, 23*, 24, 25, 26, 27, 31, 34, 37*, 38*, 41, 42, 43, 46, 48, 51, 52*, 56, 57, 59, 60, 67, 68, 72, 73*, 78, backflyleafverso*, insidebackcover. (*: page contains marginalia)
Bataille, Georges: Madame Edwarda
Paris: Pauvert, 1979
Reading traces on: editorsnote, 9, 10, 11, 12.
Hauser, Erich: Manfred De La Motte
Bonn: Galerie Hennemann, 1976
exhibition catalogue
Kott, Jan: Manger les dieux: Essais sur la tragédie grecque et la modernité
Paris: Payot, 1975
Austen, Jane: Mansfield Park
London: Oxford University Press, 1960
Mary Lascelles (introduction)
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'
Curtius, Ernst Robert: Marcel Proust
Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1952
Quint, Léon–Pierre: Marcel Proust, sa vie, son œuvre, suivi de: Le Comique et le mystère chez Proust
Paris: Simon Kra, 1928 [1925]
rev. ed.
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.
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.
Hausenstein, Wilhelm: Die Masken des Komikers Karl Valentin
Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, 1980
Inscription: "Samuel Beckett / mit freundschaftlichen Grüßen / und guten Wünschen / Gottfried und Marie Renate / KS., 5.2.80"
de la Sizeranne, Robert: Les Masques et les Visages a Florence et au Louvre: Portraits Célèbres de la Renaissance Italienne
Paris: Libraire Hachette,
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Reading traces on: 231.
Fraenger, Wilhelm: Matthias Grünewald in seinen Werten
Berlin: Rembrandt-Verlag, 1936
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Cioran, E.M.: Le Mauvais démiurge
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1969
Les Essais CXLVII
Inscription: 'Pour Samuel et Suzanne / Beckett / avec toute mon / amitié / [signed]
Notes: inserted on page 158, newspaper cutting 'Supplement au numero 7 845', with article by Cioran 'Deux Diagnosis sur un esprit, la fascination du minéral'
Chamfort: Maximes et anecdotes
Monaco: Éditions du Rocher, 1950 [1944]
2nd ed.
Reading traces on: tp1*, 21, 25, 28, 31, 35, 39, 42. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: marginalia: on title page, written in black felt pen, are page numbers, which correspond to pages on which there are lines down the side of specific maxims: 21, 25, 28, 31, 35, 39, 42. [cf. SB's translations of Chamfort].
Arakawa: Mechanismus der Bedeutung (Werk im Entstehen: 1963-1971)
Munich: Bruckmann, 1971
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
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
Leslie, C.R.: Memoirs of the Life of John Constable
Oxford: Phaidon, 1980 [1951]
Uberquoi, Marie-Claire: Memoralia: Ceremonia de la confusion ibicenca
Barcelona: Fandos, 1982
Inscription: Pour Suzanne + / Sam, toujours presents / dans moi, parmi [xxx] [xxx] / [xxx] / [xxx] 82
Havel, Vaclav: The Memorandum
New York: Grove Press, 1980
Vera Blackwell (translation)
Tom Stoppard (introduction)
Corneille, Pierre: Le Menteur
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1913
Location: James and Elizabeth Knowlson Collection, The University of Reading, JEK A/1/4/3 [photocopies]
Gregory, Horace (ed.): The Mentor Book of Religious Verse
New York: New American Library, 1957
Gregory, Horace (ed.)
Marya Zaturenska (ed.)
Janvier, Ludovic: La mer à boire: Poèmes
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1987
Inscription: mon cher Sam / pour te parler un peu / voici un peu de / [LA MER À BOIRE] / à bientôt / affection de [signed]
Breytenbach, Breyten: Métamortphase
Paris: Grasset, 1987
Inscription: 'Pour Samuel Beckett / ces quelques pas, / de tres loin / (et en titubant) / sur la route que vous / avez tracé. / My admiration / and my best wishes / Breyten Breytenbach / Paris, le 11 mai 1987'
Clarke, P.H.: Mikhail Tal's Best Games of Chess
London: G. Bell and Son, 1961
Robbe–Grillet, Alain: Le Miroir qui revient
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1984
Inscription: pour Sam / ma vieille amitié / ma vieille complicité / ma vieille admiration / [signed]
Melville, Herman: Moby Dick, or the White Whale
London: Dent, 1925 [1907]
Notes: bookseller's sticker on inside cover: Foyles London
Cohn, Ruby: Modern Shakespeare Offshoots
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976
Inscription: 'For Sam / Sine quem semper non / With love Ruby // You can rip out this page and pass book on'.
Lafenestre, George: Molière
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1909
Reading traces on: 34*, 35*, 36*, 100*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: front cover missing
Bürgel, Bruno H.: Les Mondes lointains
Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1944
Savoir Collection
Paule Montescourt (translation)
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Notes: large sections of book about universe uncut
Toussaint, Jean-Philippe: Monsieur
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1986
Janvier, Ludovic: Monstre, va
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1988
Inscription: mon cher Sam / encore un signe de / vie et ma voix / d'ami / à bientôt? / [signed] / 12.2.88
Wilde, Oscar: More Letters of Oscar Wilde
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987
Rupert Hart-Davis (ed.)
Notes: corner of page 33 folded down
Chernev, Irving: The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Modern Chess Strategy
London: Faber & Faber, 1965
Sartre, Jean-Paul: Les Mots
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1965 [1964]
Notes: corner of following pages have been folded down at some point: 9, 13, 23, 27, 31, 33, 37, 87.
Pinter, Harold: Mountain Language
1988
Inscription: April 13, 88 '/ Dear Sam / Happy Birthday! / Here's 'Mountain / Language'. I hope you're well. / Love / Harold
Notes: typescript in softbound, handmade cover with address: 52 Campden Hill Square London W8 7JR, typed across top
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.
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)
Joyce, James: Musica da camera: Poesie giovanili di James Joyce
Milan: All'Insegna del pesce d'oro, 1961
Aldo Camerino (translation)
Lavignac, Albert: La Musique et les musiciens
Paris: Librairie Delagrave, 1938
Fischer, Bobby: My 60 Memorable Games
London: Faber & Faber, 1972
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
Joyce, Stanislaus: My Brother's Keeper
London: Faber & Faber, 1958
Richard Ellmann (ed.)
T.S. Eliot (preface)
Joyce, Stanislaus: My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early Years
New York: Viking Press, 1958
Harris, Frank: My Life and Loves
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1963 [1925]
John F. Gallagher (ed.)
Synge, J. M.: My Wallet of Photographs: The Photographs of J. M. Synge Arranged and Introduced by Lilo Stephens
Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1971 [1963]
Inscription: for / Samuel Beckett, / in gratitude and deepest admiration, / Gerry Dukes / Sept. 86
Notes: ex libris possibly of Lilo Stephens
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