Samuel Beckett
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Lindon, Jérôme: La Fnac et les livres
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1978
Inscription: 'Pour Sam et Suzanne / Affectueusement / Jérôme'.
Fontaine, Jean de la: Fables
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1921
Location: James and Elizabeth Knowlson Collection, The University of Reading, JEK A/1/4/3 [photocopies]
Janvier, Ludovic: Face: Récit
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1975
Inscription: patience si les quelques / [peines] dont les mots suivent / ont tordu le parleur / pour Sam / en affection / [signed] / 23.1.1975
Spenser, Edmund: The Faerie Queene, Vol. I
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1920
Lilian Winstanley (ed.)
Location: The private collection of Terence Killeen
Inscription: 'Samuel B. Beckett / Trinity College / Dublin. / Michaelmas Term. 1923'
Notes: The BDMP owes a debt of gratitude to Terence Killeen for drawing our attention to these two volumes and for making them available to the project. A letter from Beckett addressed to Terence Killeen, written on 10.5.77 from Paris, reads: 'Dear Mr. Killeen / Thank you for yours / of April 30. / Yes, those two books / were in my possession / when I was a student / in Trinity 1923-7. / With all good wishes, / yours sincerely / Samuel Beckett'.
Spenser, Edmund: The Faerie Queene, Vol. II
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1922
Lilian Winstanley (ed.)
Location: The private collection of Terence Killeen
Inscription: 'S. Beckett / Trinity College, Dublin / 1924'
Reading traces on: 53, 99, 127*, 129*, 145*, 199*, insertrecto*, insertverso*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: The BDMP owes a debt of gratitude to Terence Killeen for drawing our attention to these two volumes and for making them available to the project.
Euwe, Max: Feldherrnkunst im Schach
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1970
Ingres, J.A.D.: Fifty Life Drawings from the Musée Ingres at Montauban
Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1986
Inscription: For my dear Sam, / with love from [xxx] / Avigdor
Notes: exhibition catalogue
Montague, John: The Figure in the Cave and Other Essays
Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1989
Joyce, James: Finnegans Wake
London: Faber & Faber, 1939
Notes: - sticker inside front cover: 'James Joyce / 34 Rue des Vignes / Paris XVI'; - inserted on page 195 [which ends 'Quoiquoietc'], a small offprint from Finnegans Wake in Portugese, Lisboa 1968, with handwritten corrections and inscription by Francis Warner: 'For Samuel Beckett, / from Francis Warner. / page 4, for some unknown reason, / has been surpressed by the régime / Nov 1968'; - inserted in back: a) framed colour photograph of Lucia Joyce's grave and b) TS of 'The Ballad of Tim Finnegan'
Helmuth Plessner (ed.): Das Fischer Lexikon: Philosophie
Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer Bücherei, 1960 [1958]
Helmuth Plessner (ed.)
Alwin Diemer (ed.)
Ivo Frenzel (ed.)
Alexander, C.H.O'D: Fischer v. Spassky, Reykjavik, 1972
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972
Apollinaire, Guillaume: Le flâneur des deux rives, suivi de contemporains pittoresques
Paris: Gallimard, Collection Idées, 1975
Kenner, Hugh: Flaubert, Joyce and Beckett: The Stoic Comedians
Boston: Beacon Press, 1962
Guy Davenport (illustrations)
Inscription: 'January 4, 1963. / To the sole living Stoic Comedian, / Samuel Beckett, / in homage to his achievement, / and in commemoration of that / of his gallant predecessors. / Hugh Kenner / Guy Davenport'
Baudelaire, Charles: Les Fleurs du mal
Paris: Le Livre de Poche, 1965
Jean-Paul Sartre (ed.)
Baudelaire, Charles: Les Fleurs du mal
Paris: Payot, 1928 [1926]
Paul Valéry (introduction)
Reading traces on: 7, 237, 308.
Notes: 'Collection Prose et Verse'
 on page(s): 7 [zone 1] , 237 [zone 1] , 308 [zone 1]
Ellmann, Richard: Four Dubliners: Wilde, Joyce, Yeats and Beckett
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987
Inscription: For Sam, / with gratitude, / Seán O'Mórdha / Dublin / April '87'
Dictionary: Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1930 [1926]
Notes: bookseller's sticker on inside front cover: Greene & Co, Dublin
Sewell, Brocard: Frances Horovitz Poet: A Symposium
Wirral: The Aylesford Press, 1987
Brocard Sewell (ed.)
Inscription: for Sam / - wishing you / all the best / as ever. / Michael / March 1988
Brod, Max: Franz Kafka: Souvenirs et Documents
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1945
Hélène Zylberberg (translation)
Unseld, Joachim: Franz Kafka; Ein Schriftstellerleben: Die Geschichte seiner Veröffentlichungen
Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag, 1982
Inscription: Für Samuel Beckett / in grosser Verehrung / Joachim Unseld / Frankfurt, Mai 82
Kolb, Annette: Franz Schubert: Sein Leben
Zurich: Eugen Rentsch Verlag, 1968 [1941]
Inscription: "Die weite Welt_ / per pedes apostolorum_ / (S. 95) / Au grand cordonnier - / Berlin / Mars 1975 / W.G."
Rehberg, Walter and Paula Rehberg: Franz Schubert, sein Leben und Werk
Zürich: Artemis Verlag, 1947 [1946]
2nd ed.
Reading traces on: 386insert*, 457, 458*, 459*, 461, 462, 464. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: - inside front cover, bookseller information: 18,– / 12/[x]; - insert of piece of paper with list of poets and poem titles, at page 386
Mannoni, Octave: Freud
Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1968
Écrivains de Toujours
Freud, Sigmund: The Freud / Jung Letters: The Correspondence between Sigmund Freud and C.G. Jung
Princeton University Press, 1974
Bollingen Series XCIV
William McGuire (ed.)
Ralph Manheim and R.F.C. Hull (translation)
Freiherr von Oppenheim-Stiftung, Max: Führer durch das Tell Halaf-Museum
Berlin: 1934
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Reading traces on: 11*, 37*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Tejera, Nivaria: Fuir la spirale
Paris: Actes Sud, 1987
Jean-Marie Saint-Lu (translation)
Inscription: A vous / Samuel Beckett / ce long souffle / de spirale / de vous même. / Avec toute / mon affection / mon admiration / [signed] / Paris, mars 88'
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