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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: 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'
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'
Debraye, Henri: En Touraine et sur les bords de la Loire
Grenoble: Éditions J. Rey, 1926
Location: Currently for sale at De Búrca Rare Books [march 2016]
Inscription: '[signed] / Paris August 1926'
Notes: Loosely inserted is a photographic postcard of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland depicting Arthur Jacob. Inscribed "See ref. to Cycling trip in the Loire with Charles C. Clark and inspiration for the poem Return to the Vestry 1926 in Lawrence E. Harvey - Samuel Beckett. Poet & Critic, p.308".
Derrida, Jacques: Ulysse gramophone: Deux mots pour Joyce
Paris: Éditions Galilée, 1987
Inscription: 'pour Samuel Beckett / (puisque Joyce - et André Bernold / m'encouragent à prendre ce / prétexte pour oser lui dire enfin / mon admiration de toujours, et ma / reconnaissance) / J. Derrida / Paris le 4 février 1987'
Notes: We owe a debt of gratitude to Jean-Michel Rabaté and Shane Weller for their help with the transcription of the inscription.
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
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
Dupré, P.: Encyclopédie des citations
Paris: Éditions de Trévise, 1961 [1959]
Inscription: Paris, March 1962 / For Sam Beckett / with warmest regards, / Larry and Sheila Harvey
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
Dux, Pierre: Vive le Théâtre: Souvenirs pour Elodie
Paris: Stock, 1984
Inscription: 'A monsieur Samuel Beckett / avec l'admiration, / en reconnaissance et l'amitié / de Pierre Dux'
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