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Ellmann, Richard: James Joyce
New York / Oxford / Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1982
New rev. ed.
Notes: - spine very tight, appears unopened; - hardback
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.
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]
Holy Bible: Authorized King James Version
Oxford: Oxford University Press, n.d.
Beckett quotes from Deuteronomy (4:31), Nehemiah (9:31), Lamentations (3:22–3) and the Psalms / Proverbs (12:10) on page 04r of the second typescript of Not I, MS-UoR-1227-7-12-3.
Boswell: Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887
George Birkbeck Hill (ed.)
Notes: - bought March 1961 in Brighton; - little bookseller's tag on inside cover: Greene & Co. Clare Street Dublin. - piece of paper [torn from a typed letter which incl. the date 18/5/1973] inserted on page 261, note on paper reads: 'Boule d'Or', with adress of 'Pierre' on back, and note to call Horovitz for Tophoven's and Jacoba van Velde's telephone number.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Biographia Literaria, Vol. 1
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958 [1907]
J. Shawcross (ed.)
Notes: with his aesthetical essays
 Beckett may be referring to Coleridge's distinction between 'fancy' and 'imagination' on page 09r of the manuscript of Footfalls, MS-UoR-1552-1.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Biographia Literaria, Vol. 2
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959 [1907]
J. Shawcross (ed.)
Dictionary: Pocket Oxford Dictionary
Oxford: Clarendon, 1947
Reprint with corrections
Fowler, H. W. and F. G. Fowler (ed.)
Dictionary: The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971
Notes: complete text reproduced micrographically; 2 volumes
Dictionary: Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1930 [1926]
Notes: bookseller's sticker on inside front cover: Greene & Co, Dublin
Dictionary: The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972
Notes: bookseller's sticker on inside front cover: Galignani, Paris; 2 volumes
Dictionary: The Concise Oxford Dictionary
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983
Notes: second copy
Fowler, H.W. and F.G. Fowler: The King's English
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962 [1931]
Third Edition
Greg, W.W.: The Editorial Problem in Shakespeare: The Clark Lectures
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962 [1942]
Notes: [Trinity College, Cambridge, Lent Term 1939]
Johnson, Samuel: Johnson on Shakespeare: Essays and Notes Set Forth with an Introduction
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1957 [1908]
Walter Raleigh (ed.)
Keats, John: Selected Letters
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1954
The World's Classics
Frederick Page (selection)
Notes: book ribbon at pages 10-11
Leslie, C.R.: Memoirs of the Life of John Constable
Oxford: Phaidon, 1980 [1951]
Maguinness, William Stuart: Bimillennial Reflections on Ovid
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958
Greece & Rome V.1
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 ...'
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)
Pope, Alexander: Essay on Criticism
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909
John Sargeaunt (ed.)
Reading traces on: 1*, 2*, 3*, 4*, 13*, 19, 21*, 23*, 26*, 27*, 29*, 30*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Prawer, S.S.: Heine's Jewish Comedy: A Study of his Portraits of Jews and Judaism
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983
Inscription: For Samuel Beckett, / with warmest good wishes / on his eightieth birthday, / and with deepest / admiration. / [signed] / Oxford, 7 iv 86
Rand, E. K.: Dantis Alagherii Operum Latinorum Concordantiae
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912
E. K. Rand (ed.)
E. H. Wilkins (ed.)
A. C. White (ed.)
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Rush Rhees (ed.): Recollections of Wittgenstein
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984
Rush Rhees (ed.)
Scholes, Percy A.: The Oxford Companion to Music
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1944 [1938]
Wilde, Oscar: More Letters of Oscar Wilde
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987
Rupert Hart-Davis (ed.)
Notes: corner of page 33 folded down
Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Beliefs
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1966
Cyril Barrett (ed.)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Letters from Ludwig Wittgenstein, with a Memoir
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1967
Paul Engelmann (ed.)
Reading traces on: 97.
Yeats, William Butler: The Oxford Book of Modern Verse: 1892 - 1935
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1937 [1936]
Notes: bookseller's sticker inside front cover: Greene & Co. Dublin
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