Samuel Beckett
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Ellmann, Richard: The Backgrounds of Ulysses
1954
Kenyon Review XVI.3
Inscription: 'To Sam with the / utmost gratitude / Dick'
Notes: offprint from The Kenyon Review, Vol. XVI, No. 3, Summer, 1954. Copyright 1954 by Kenyon College
Janvier, Ludovic: La Baigneuse
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1968
Inscription: pour Sam / cette approximation / encore très lointaine / vive amitié / Paris 20 sept 68 / [signed]
Ryan, John: A Bash in the Tunnel: James Joyce by the Irish
Brighton: Clifton Books, 1970
John Ryan (ed.)
Notes: piece of paper inserted at page 181
Schmidt, Leopold: Beethoven, Werke und Leben
Berlin: Völkerverband der Bücherfreunde, Wegweiser-Verlag, 1924
Notes: pages 85 folded down in past, and 87 still folded down, in section '1795-1802', 'Art zu instrumentieren' and 'Opus 37'
Felix Braun (ed.): Beethoven im Gespräch
Wiesbaden: Insel Verlag, 1959
Felix Braun (ed.)
Reading traces on: 48, 61, 63, 69, 72, 77.
Notes: 6 pages have been folded down, pages 48, 61, 63 (section 'Beethoven und Friedrich Rochlitz'), 69, 72 and 77.
Fried, Erich: Befreiung von der Flucht: Gedichte und Gegengedichte
Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer Verlag, 1987 [1984]
Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Schriften: Beiheft
Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1960
Mit Beiträgen von Ingeborg Bachmann, Maurice Cranston, José Ferrater Mora, Paul Feyerabend, Erich Heller, Bertrand Russell, George H. von Wright
Inscription: Renate Handke - 1961
Reading traces on: 8, 9, 10, 11*, 12*, 68*, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, y*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: The annotations appear to have been made by Renate Handke.
Mauthner, Fritz: Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache, Vol. 1
Leipzig: F. Meiner, 1923
3rd ed.
Reading traces on: xi, xiv, xv, xvi, 2, 13, 19, 31, 33, 35, 41, 42, 43, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 59, 60, 61, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 77, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 93, 97, 98, 102, 103, 104, 110, 119, 134, 135, 136, 137, 142, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 151, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 159, 162*, 164*, 166, 167, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 176, 177, 181, 183, 185, 188, 193, 199, 200, 202, 203, 204, 209, 210, 213, 219, 225, 228, 229, 230, 243, 244, 245, 247, 250, 251, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 266, 268, 269, 270, 271, 274, 275, 276, 278, 280, 288, 289, 290, 291, 293, 300, 303, 304, 306, 316, 317, 318, 321, 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336, 337, 339, 340, 341, 342, 343, 344, 346, 352, 353, 354, 355, 356, 358, 359, 360, 361, 363, 364, 365, 366, 367, 368, 369, 372, 373, 375, 376, 377, 379, 382, 391, 393, 396, 397, 399, 403, 405, 409, 410, 411, 413, 414, 415, 422, 424, 425, 427, 428, 429, 433, 436, 437, 438, 439, 446, 448, 449, 451, 452, 454, 455, 456, 457, 459, 460, 463, 466, 469, 470, 471, 473, 485, 489, 490, 491, 493, 494, 495, 506, 517, 520, 521, 522, 523, 531, 532, 533, 534, 535, 536, 537, 538, 540, 541, 543, 546, 547, 553, 554, 557, 558, 561, 564, 566, 568, 570, 571, 577, 578, 579, 580, 581, 582, 583, 584, 586, 587, 588, 589, 591, 592, 593, 594, 597, 598, 600, 601, 603, 604, 606, 607, 611, 612, 615, 617, 618, 632, 633, 634, 635, 636, 637, 638, 639, 641, 642, 643, 646, 647, 648, 650, 652, 654, 655, 656, 666, 667, 669, 670, 671, 676, 678, 680, 681, 682, 684, 686, 687, 688, 689, 690, 691, 693, 695, 696, 700, 701, 702, 703, 704, 705, 706, 707, 709, 712, 713, 715, 717, 719. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: - inside cover of volume 1: '1/3 20.-' - the pencil marks in the margins are probably not Beckett's (Van Hulle and Nixon 2013, 158-163)
Mauthner, Fritz: Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache, Vol. 2
Leipzig: F. Meiner, 1923
3rd ed.
Reading traces on: 1, 3, 4, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 31, 39, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 55, 56, 58, 71, 83, 99, 100, 123, 132, 138, 140, 141, 144, 147, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 155, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 164, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 187, 189, 192, 193, 194, 197, 200, 201, 203, 204, 205, 208, 214, 216, 219, 220, 222, 226, 227, 232, 245, 248, 267, 268, 269, 270, 272, 274, 276, 282, 283, 285, 289, 293, 295, 296, 299, 300, 301, 315, 316, 323, 325, 329, 330, 337, 348, 349, 354, 355, 356, 371, 384, 385, 409, 410, 411, 423, 426, 427, 428, 432, 433, 434, 437, 438, 444, 450, 454, 455, 456, 457, 460, 461, 474, 476, 477, 478, 479, 480, 483, 487, 489, 498, 507, 513, 514, 515, 525, 526, 550, 551, 552, 555, 556, 557, 558, 559, 562, 567, 570, 576, 579, 580, 581, 582, 583, 584, 585, 586, 587, 588, 589, 594, 595, 596, 597, 613, 614, 618, 629, 646, 649, 651, 652, 657, 659, 676, 683, 684, 685, 687, 689, 691, 695, 697, 699, 700, 701, 702, 703, 704, 705, 706, 707, 708, 710, 711, 712, 713, 714, 715, 716, 717, 718.
Notes: the pencil marks in the margins are probably not Beckett's (Van Hulle and Nixon 2013, 158-163)
Mauthner, Fritz: Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache, Vol. 3
Leipzig: F. Meiner, 1923
3rd ed.
Reading traces on: 2, 3, 10, 42, 43, 48, 56, 80, 81, 84, 101, 133, 137, 153, 154, 189, 197, 198, 207, 208, 214, 216, 217, 223, 224, 234, 235, 243, 244, 245, 246, 248, 249, 251, 253, 255, 256, 257, 258, 266, 267, 271, 286, 287, 290, 291, 292, 297, 309, 311, 321, 332, 347, 348, 349, 350, 351, 359, 362, 363, 366, 367, 368, 369, 370, 371, 373, 384, 393, 395, 396, 401, 402, 416, 420, 421, 422, 423, 431, 458, 459, 461, 462, 463, 468, 472, 473, 474, 475, 479, 483, 484, 485, 486, 487, 488, 492, 493, 495, 515, 519, 520, 521, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, 529, 530, 532, 535, 536, 541, 542, 544, 547, 552, 553, 556, 564, 565, 567, 568, 569, 578, 579, 580, 585, 591, 592, 596, 597, 599, 602, 603, 604, 605, 612, 613, 614, 615, 616, 617, 618, 619, 621, 622, 626, 627, 628, 629, 631, 632, 634, 635, 636, 639, 640, 641, vii, x, xi, xvi.
Notes: the pencil marks in the margins are probably not Beckett's (Van Hulle and Nixon 2013, 158-163)
Maguinness, William Stuart: Bentley as Man and Scholar
Leeds: Chorley & Pickersgill LTD, 1963
The Bentley commemorative Lectures delivered to the Classical Association at the University, Leeds in April 1962
Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical Society X.3
Notes: offprint
Berkeley, George (Bishop): Berkeley's Commonplace Book
London: Faber, 1930
G. A. Johnston (ed.)
Reading traces on: 4, 6, 9*, 10. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: - Letter to Thomas MacGreevy 23 [April] 1933 (LSB I 154): 'Mindful of Alfieri I tried to read Plutarch, but in vain. Mindful of Alfieri! And Berkeley's Commonplace Book, which Hone recommended as a beginning, and which is full of profound things, and at the same time of a foul (& false) intellectual canaillerie, enough to put you against reading anything more.' - Cf. also Berkeley's A New Theory of Vision, which also contains marginalia and markings in green pencil.
Isherwood, Christopher: The Berlin Stories
New York: New Directions, 1954
Dictionary: Beyond the Dictionary in German: A Handbook of Colloquial Usage
London: Cassell, 1968
B. Anderson (ed.)
M. North (ed.)
Die Bibel: nach der Uebersetzung von Martin Luther
Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1970
Martin Luther (translation)
Maguinness, William Stuart: Bimillennial Reflections on Ovid
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958
Greece & Rome V.1
Notes: offprint
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.)
Frisch, Max: Biographie: ein Spiel
Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1967
Pinter, Harold: The Birthday Party and Other Plays
London: Methuen, 1960
Inscription: Jan 61. / To Sam Beckett / from / Harold Pinter
Grevisse, Maurice: Le Bon usage: Grammaire française
Paris: Duculot/Hatier, 1969
Bonnard: Bonnard 1867-1947: Drawings, Gouaches, Watercolours
London: Victor Waddington, 1966
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Edwards, G.B.: The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981
John Fowles (introduction)
Boswell, Samuel: Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1951 [1950]
Frederick A. Pottle (ed.)
Notes: Attached to page 49, which speaks of Boswell's 'want of women': a colour slide of a man with an owl sitting up on a branch to the left, and a photograph of a family, on reverse 'Copyright of the National Galleries of Scotland', and (hand-written) 'by Henry Singleton'
van Velde, Bram: Bram van Velde 1895-1981
Bern: Benteli Verlag, 1989
exhibition catalogue, Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht
Galerie Michel Warren: Bram van Velde
Paris: Galerie Michel Warren, 1957
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
van Velde, Bram: Bram van Velde
Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1989
exhibition catalogue
Inscription: A Bram, en ce jour des / morts, lui si vivant / avec ces tableaux, / et a Martha, a notre / rencontre, / Claire [Stohlig]
Notes: yellow post-its on pages 157 / 159 / 175
Freud, Sigmund: Briefe 1873-1939
Frankfurt a.M.: S. Fischer Verlag, 1960
Le Brocquy, Louis: Le Brocquy and the Celtic Head Image
New York: New York State Museum, 1981
Notes: exhibition catalogue, September - November 1981
Attali, Jacques: Bruits: essai sur l'économie politique de la musique
Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1977
Heine, Heinrich: Buch der Lieder
Leipzig: Insel, n.d.
Reading traces on: 81, 90, 91, 94*, 142, 143, 146*, 150, 155, 161, 162. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: black pen probably by SB, but not the purple crosses and arrows
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