Samuel Beckett
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Oulton, Thérèse: Lachrimae
London: Marlborough London, 1988
Notes: exhibition catalogue January - February 1988
Moore, George: The Lake
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1932
Location: The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
Yeats, William Butler: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
New York: The Grenfell Press, n.d.
Notes: Édition de luxe: 25 copies
Doumic, René: Lamartine
Paris: Librairie Hachette, n.d.
4th ed.
Pinter, Harold: Landscape and Silence
London: Methuen, 1969
Inscription: July 69 / To Sam / from Harold
Reading traces on: 45, 46, 51.
Notes: - contains TS of poem 'All of That'; - corrections to the text, in HP's hand, on pages 45-46 / 51
De Castro, Sergio: Landscapes of Light: 21st June - 14th July 1972
London: Wildenstein & Co Ltd,
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Dictionary: Langenscheidt dizionario universale francese-italiano / italiano-francese
Berlin: Langenscheidt, 1964
Notes: 3 copies
Maguinness, William Stuart: The Language of Lucretius
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965
D.R. Dudley (ed.)
Notes: offprint
Le Breton, Auguste: Langue verte et noirs desseins
Paris: Presses de la Cité, 1960
Cioran, E.M.: Des Larmes et les saints
Paris: L'Herne, 1986
Inscription: 'à Samuel et Suzanne / Beckett / - ce petit livre mort-né / (il y a cinquente / ans) / affectueusement / [signed]'
Dictionary: Larousse universel en 2 Volumes
Paris: Larousse, 1922
Dictionary: Larousse de la musique
Paris: Larousse, 1957
Norbert Dufourcq (ed.)
Notes: 2 volumes
Dictionary: Larousse français-anglais / English-French
Paris: Larousse, n.d.
Pole, David: The Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein
London: The Athlone Press, 1958
Fluchère, Henri: Laurence Sterne: From Tristram to Yorick: An Interpretation of Tristam Shandy
London: Oxford University Press, 1965
Barbara Bray (translated and abridged)
Inscription: 'For Sam from Barbara / with love. / Paris, November 1965'
Mayoux, Jean-Jacques: Laurence Sterne parmi nous
1962
Critique 177
Inscription: Pour Samuel et Suzanne Beckett / leur ami dévoué / Jean Jacques Mayoux
Notes: offprint
Maspero, François: Le Sourire du chat
Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1984
Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Beliefs
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1966
Cyril Barrett (ed.)
Windelband, W. and H. Heimsoeth: Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Philosophie
Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1935
Notes: - bookseller information in pencil on inside front cover: '4 XII 36/9.60';- marginalia: 261
Büchner, Georg: Lenz
London: Frontier Press, 1969
Michael Hamburger (translation)
Inscription: 'For Samuel Beckett / in admiration and with / sincere good wishes for / his health / from / Michael Hamburger / Aug 70
Austen, Jane: Letters 1796-1817
London / New York / Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1956 [1955]
R.W. Chapman (ed.)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Letters from Ludwig Wittgenstein, with a Memoir
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1967
Paul Engelmann (ed.)
Reading traces on: 97.
Joyce, James: Letters of James Joyce, Vol. II / III
New York: The Viking Press, 1966
Richard Ellmann (ed.)
Notes: - inserted at front of volume 3 is a photograph of Joyce by Martinie, in what appears to be a plate from a book; - scrap from envelope inserted on page 198-9
Joyce, James: Letters of James Joyce
London: Faber & Faber, 1957
Stuart Gilbert (ed.)
Chesterfield, Lord: Letters, Sentences & Maxims
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1881
6th ed.
Sainte-Beuve (critical essay)
Inscription: 'Samuel Beckett'
Notes: - little bookseller's tag on inside cover: Greene & Co. Clare Street Dublin
Arrabal, Fernando: Lettre à Fidel Castro: an "1984"
Paris: Christian Bourgois Editeur, 1983
Inscription: A Samuel Beckett / Mon maître / idolatré / F. Arrabal / Feliz Año Nuevo
Joyce, James: Lettres, Vol. IV
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1986
Richard Ellmann (ed.)
Marie Tadié (translation)
Inscription: 'Pour Samuel Beckett / avec mon admiration / Marie Tadié'
Notes: piece of paper inserted page 121
Joyce, James: Lettres de Joyce
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1961
Stuart Gilbert (ed.)
Marie Tadié (translation)
Inscription: 'To Samuel Beckett / In hopes that this / French version of these / familiar letters may / interest him, / from his friend / Stuart Gilbert // Pour Monsieur Samuel Beckett / avec mon admiration profonde / Marie Tadié'
Notes: pages have not been cut
Sévigné: Lettres de Mme de Sévigné
Paris: Librarie de Firmin Didot Frères, 1863
M. Suard (ed.)
Notes: - marginalia: many markings - but probably not in SB's hand - not scanned;- postcard addressed to Suzanne page 208
Poussin, Nicolas: Lettres et propos sur l'art
Paris: Hermann, 1964
Miroirs de l'art
Anthony Blunt (ed.)
Location: The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
Poussin, Nicolas: Lettres et propos sur l'art: Textes réunis et présentés par Anthony Blunt
Paris: Hermann,
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Reading traces on: frontispiece*, 107, 194*, 196*, backcover*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Boyle, Kay: Life Being the Best and Other Stories
New York: New Directions, 1988
Sandra Whipple Spanier (ed.)
Inscription: 'May 25, 1988 / To beloved Sam, this / book of ancient stories, / which [take] him sixty / years of devotion that / has never faltered. Kay / Oakland / California'
Notes: on page 68 inserted a ticket for Shuttle UK Terminal 1995
Defoe, Daniel: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
London: Oxford University Press, 1968 [1902]
The World's Classics
Notes: Paris bookseller's plate.
Sterne, Laurence: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
London: Oxford University Press, 1959 [1903]
The World's Classics
Notes: - piece of paper inserted on page 24, beginning of chapter 11; - bookseller price on flyleaf: 8/6
Sterne, Laurence: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
London: Oxford University Press, 1910 [1903]
The World's Classics, 2nd repr. ed.
Reading traces on: 14.
Notes: - from The Works of Laurence Sterne, Volume 1; - ex Libris 'A. J. Leventhal'; - book ribbon at page 166-67
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn: The Life of Charlotte Brontë
London: Dent & Sons, 1960 [1908]
Everyman's Library
May Sinclair (introduction)
Cherbury, Edward Lord Herbert: The Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Written by Himself
 Edinburgh: John Ballantyne and Co.; London: John Murray, 1809
2nd ed.
Reading traces on: 37*, 47*, 70, 111*, 159*, 226*, 228*, 231*, 232*, 236*, 238*, 240*, 243*, 245*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: - annotations probably not in SB's hand; - Ex Libris Book Plate: 'Rt. Hon. Sir John [Rolt?]'; - bookseller's sticker: 'William George's Sons, Ltd., Bristol'
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.
Schiff, Daniel: La Ligne de sceaux
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1982
Inscription: 'Pour Suzanne et Sam Beckett / sympathie et admiration / [très cordialement]! / Daniel Schiff'
Ellmann, Richard: The Limits of Joyce's Naturalism
1955
The Sewanee Review
Inscription: 'This grew out of some / remarks of yours. Thanks and / good wishes, / Dick'
Notes: offprint from The Sewanee Review, October, 1955
Gindertael, R.V.: Lipsi
Paris:
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Inscription: a Sam Beckett amicalment M. Lipsi
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
Walton, Isaak: The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert, Sanderson
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d.
Inscription: Beckett crossed out the previous owner's name (Wallis) and replaced it with his own inscription: 'Samuel Beckett / 4/36'
Reading traces on: 17.
Notes: The Greene & Co. Dublin Bookseller stamp can be found on the inside of the front cover.
Lillo, George: The London Merchant or the History of George Barnwell
New York: Grove Press, 1952
Bonamy Dobrée (introduction)
Le Brocquy, Louis: Louis Le Brocquy
Charleroi: Palais des Beaux-Arts Charleroi, 1982
Catalogue of Palais des Beaux-Arts Charleroi October - November 1982
Stange, Alfred: Lucas Moser und Hans Multscher
Leipzig: E. A. Seemann,
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
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 ...'
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