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MacGreevy, Thomas: Nicolas Poussin
Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1960
Inscription: 'Sam and Suzanne / affectueusement / Tom'.
MacGreevy, Thomas: Pictures in the Irish National Gallery
Cork: The Mercier Press, 1945
Inscription: 'For Sam / from / Tom / comme toujours / Dublin 1946'.
Madden, Anne: Peintures et papiers récents
Saint-Paul: Fondation Maeght, 1983
Inscription: For Sam / With Love / Anne.
Notes: exhibition catalogue; February - March 1983
Maeterlinck, Maurice: Théâtre, Vol. 1
Paris: Charpentier, n.d. [1939]
La Princesse Maleine, L'Intruse, Les Aveugles
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Inscription: xxxx
Reading traces on: XI, XIII.
Maguinness, William Stuart: Virgil and Milton
1961
Romanistas III.3&4
Inscription: 'With kindest wishes from / Stuart'
Notes: offprint
Malcolm, Norman: Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967 [1962]
Inscription: 'For Sam / with love / from Mary / 1-1-71 / W's favourite / musical composer also / was Schubert ...'
Mayoux, Jean-Jacques: Laurence Sterne parmi nous
1962
Critique 177
Inscription: Pour Samuel et Suzanne Beckett / leur ami dévoué / Jean Jacques Mayoux
Notes: offprint
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
Mayoux, Jean-Jacques: Shakespeare
Paris: Seghers, 1966
Inscription: "Pour Samuel Beckett / avec l'affectueux dévouement / de Jean Jacques Mayoux"
Mayoux, Jean-Jacques: Shakespeare
Paris: Aubier Montaigne, 1982
Inscription: Pour Samuel Beckett / en toute affection / Jean Jacques Mayoux
Notes: - corners on the following pages have been folded down and then up again: 29, 61, 65, 67, 77, 85, 87, 91, 95, 111, 115, 119, 131, 139, 145, 147, 149- cardboard paper inserted page 77, beginning of second chapter
Mayoux, Jean-Jacques: Vivants Piliers: Le roman anglo-saxon et les symboles (Coleridge, De Quincey, Hawthorne, Melville, Henry James, Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Beckett)
Paris: Julliard, 1960
Les lettres nouvelles
Inscription: Pour Samuel Beckett / (et Suzanne " ) / en espérant n'avoir pas trop [trahi] / Bien cordialement. / Jean Jacques Mayoux
Notes: title page uncut; from Hawthorne to Conrad pages mostly uncut
McGreevy, Thomas: T.S. Eliot, a Study
London: Chatto & Windus, 1931
Dolphin Series
Inscription: 'To Samuel Beckett / from Tom McGreevy / affectionately / 22/1/31'.
McGreevy, Thomas: Poems
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1934
Inscription: 'Sam / from Tom / Chelsea, England, May,/ 1934'.
Reading traces on: 3, 4, 5, 12, 13, 18*, 27, 30*, 31*, 35, 38, 38insert, 45*, 51, 52, 53*, 55, 56, 57. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: - all marginal lines and notes made in red pen;- inserted on page 38, a cutting which includes MacGreevy's poem 'On the Death of Joseph Djugashvili alias Stalin' - Beckett's note on top of page reads 'Univ Review / June [62]'
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
Ménétrier, Jacques: Origines de l'Occident: Nomades et sédentaires
Paris: Édition Wéber, 1972
Inscription: à Samuel et Suzanne Beckett / ce: d'ou venons nous? qui [boulle?] le cycle / de ma recherche / en toute amitie / [signed]
Mitchell, Joan and Yves Michaud: La Grande valée / Colour
Paris: Galérie J. Fournier, 1984
Inscription: For Sam / with love / from Joan / so lovely to see you again / for my birthday Feb. 12, 1985
Molière: L'Avare
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1918
8th ed.
G. Lanson (ed.)
Location: Currently for sale at Peter Harrington, London [april 2016]
Inscription: 'Samuel B. Beckett / Trinity College / Dublin. / Hilary Term - 1924'
Inscription: 'Daniel de W. Rogers. / T.C.D. / Michaelmas Term 1950.'
Reading traces on: 64*, 65*, 71*, 99*, 103*, 108*, 149*, 154*. (*: page contains marginalia)
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.
Molière: Théâtre complet, Vol. 2
Paris: Bibliothèque Hachette, n.d.
Inscription: S. B. Beckett / July 1926
Reading traces on: 206*, 207*, 212*, 234, 257*, 258*, 259, 268*, 314*, 315*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: - volume III is missing; - marginalia: volume 2: from La Princesse d'Élide: 206-207 / 212 / 234; from Tartuffe: 257-9 / 268 / 314-5
Molière: Théâtre complet, Vol. 4
Paris: bibliothèque Hachette, n.d.
Inscription: S. B. Beckett / July 1926
Reading traces on: 292insertrecto*, 292insertverso*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: scrap of paper inserted into volume four at page 292
Molière: Théâtre complet, Vol. 5
Paris: Bibliothèque Hachette, n.d.
Inscription: S. B. Beckett / July 1926
Reading traces on: 67*, 131*, 138*, 139*, 148. (*: page contains marginalia)
Montague, John: The Dead Kingdom
Portlaoise: Dolmen Press, in association with Winston-Salem, Wake Forest University Press, 1984
Inscription: A sigh / for Sam / from John; / sailing on, / with affection.
Moore, George: A Storyteller's Holiday, Vol. 1
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928
Location: The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
Inscription: '[L.] Marie Sinclair (&) / [Dormar T. Arius.]'
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'
More, Thomas: Utopia
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1913 [1879]
Inscription: Samuel B. Beckett / Trinity College / Dublin / Michaelmas Term - 19223
Morrisroe, Patrick (Most Rev.): A Little Manual of Liturgy
Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son, Ltd, 1926
Inscription: John [Kehoe] / Belvedere College / Prep [J "A"]
Notes: previous owner's name inscribed
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