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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'
Baedeker, Karl: Paris et ses environs
Paris / Leipzig: Larousse, 1947
Inscription: 'S.B. Beckett'
Beaumarchais: Théâtre choisi
Angers: Éditions Jacques Petit, 1941
Alfred Péron (introduction and notes)
Inscription: A Sam, / Paris 27 Janvier 1942 / [signed]
Reading traces on: 382*, 384*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: marginalia: 382 / 384
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)
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'
The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments, Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesty's special command
Oxford: Oxford University Press, n.d.
Location: Dublin Local Studies Collection
Inscription: 'This Premium was adjudged to / Samuel Beckett / for Diligence and Attendance / at / Tullow Sunday School / 13 of Dec. 1912 / Revd. G. W. N. Clark'
Reading traces on: 65*, 137*, 198*, 200*, 272, 568, 569, 832*, 834, 835, 836, 837, 838, 839, 840, 841*, 842, 843, 845, 846, 847*, 848*, 849*, 852, 853, 861*, 862*, 863*, 876, 889*, 890, 940*, 942*, 943*, 990*, 991. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: -Also on titlepage: 'Appointed to be read in Churches / Oxford / Printed at the University Press / London: Henry Frowde / and sold by the / Association for Promoting Christian Knowledge / 37 Dawson Street / Dublin' - The BDMP owes a debt of gratitude to Martha Black and Feargal Whelan for drawing our attention to this volume, and to Máire Kennedy of the Dublin Public City Library for providing scans and making them available to the project. For a further discussion of the reading traces see Van Hulle and Nixon 2013, 173-176.
on page(s): 862 [zone 1]
La Sacra Bibbia
Roma: Società Biblica Britannica e Forestiera, 1924
Inscription: 'S. B. Beckett / Trinity College / Dublin'
Reading traces on: 27*, 52*, 56*, 57, 816, 819*, 820, 822*, 824, 830, 846, 1090*, 1101*, 1115*, 1172*, 1173. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: All marginalia in blue ink are references to Voltaire's Lettres d'Amabed, notably the footnotes to the Troisième lettre du journal d'Amabed (Van Hulle and Nixon 2013, p. 181).
 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 is a good match with the map in this copy.
Biely, Andrey: The Silver Dove
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1974
George Reavey (translation and introduction)
Inscription: To Sam / with All the Best [Aries] / Wishes and Love — / George / 11 April 1975
Reading traces on: xv*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Bishop, Tom: Le passeur d'océan: Carnets d'un ami américain
Paris: Payot, 1989
Inscription: For Sam / In faithful friendship / as ever - / Tom / Nov. 89.
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
Blau, Herbert: Take up the Bodies: Theatre at the Vanishing Point
Urbana, IL: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1982
Inscription: 'For Sam - / A belated view of what no / longer is - with you, as always, / behind the scene. / [signed] / Paris / 6 June 1989'
Blau, Herbert: The Eye of Prey: Subversions of the Postmodern
Bloomington / Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987
Inscription: 'For Sam - / without whom ... ? / [signed] / Paris / Feb. 7, 1989'
Böll, Heinrich: Entfernung von der Truppe: Erzählung
Köln / Berlin: Kiepenheuer und Witsch, 1964
Inscription: "For / Samuel Beckett / mit Dank u Verehrung / Heinrich Böll / Nov. 64"
Bonnefoy, Yves: Quarante-cinq poèmes de Yeats suivis de La Résurrection
Paris: Hermann, 1989
Yves Bonnefoy (introduction and notes)
Inscription: 'pour Samuel Beckett / en hommage / d'admiration et de / sympathie // Yves Bonnefoy'
Notes: bookseller's tag on cover: Booksellers / Stationers / Greene & Co. / 16 Clare Street / Dublin
Thierry Bouchard (ed.): Théodore Balmoral, Vol. 2/3
Orléans: 1986
Thierry Bouchard (ed.)
Inscription: Pour Samuel Beckett / avec toute mon admiration. / Thierry Bouchard / [signed] / Orléans [xx].IX.86.
Boyle, Kay: Life Being the Best and Other Stories
New York: New Directions, 1988
Sandra Whipple Spanier (ed.)
Inscription: 'May 25, 1988 / To beloved Sam, this / book of ancient stories, / which [take] him sixty / years of devotion that / has never faltered. Kay / Oakland / California'
Notes: on page 68 inserted a ticket for Shuttle UK Terminal 1995
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
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'
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)
Bushrui, Suheil Badi and Bernard Benstock: James Joyce: An International Perspective
Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire: Colin Smythe, 1982
Irish Literary Studies 10
Inscription: For Samuel Beckett / in humble recognition / of his heroic example: / a beacon light amid / the darkness of the world / [signed]
Notes: second hardback copy also in library, but without inscription
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"
Pinter, Harold, Joseph Losey and Barbara Bray: The Proust Screenplay: À la recherce du temps perdu
New York: Grove Press, 1977
Inscription: To Sam / Love / Harold
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