Samuel Beckett
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Gelb, Arthur and Barbara Gelb: O'Neill
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962
Notes: piece of paper inserted at page 622 [chapter XLVIII]
Homère: L'Odyssée
Paris: Société d'édition " Les belles lettres ", 1925
Victor Bérard (translation)
Notes: - 3 volumes; - postcard inserted on page 61 of volume 2. The postcard is of Dürer's painting of the two praying hands, and there are holes in the top centre suggesting that it has been hung on a wall by a nail or the like. Poststamp is Kassel, 16 February 1932, and is addressed to Beckett at École Normale. Sender is presumably Cissie Sinclair: "Feb 16th Am sending the things you left here on today. I was waiting to know your permanent address but as that is not forthcoming apparently . . . Am disappointed not to hear from you and hope you are alright. Things as usual here, only more so. Lebewohl C.[bottom left:] I hope you got the [sleevelinks?] alright.[bottom right:] Contents of packet 1 Scarf 1 silk handkerchief 2 pair socks 1 scissors (in socks)". - Last pages of volume 3, ie the section 'Chant XXIV', are uncut.
Arikha, Avigdor: Oelbilder, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen
Zurich: Marlborough Zurich, 1977
Samuel Beckett (preface)
Aretino, Pietro: L'Œuvre du Divin Arétin, Vol. 1
Paris: Bibliothèque des Curieux, 1933
Guillaume Apollinaire (introduction and notes)
Aretino, Pietro: L'Œuvre du Divin Arétin, Vol. 2
Paris: Bibliothèque des Curieux, 1933
Guillaume Apollinaire (introduction and notes)
Notes: concert ticket inserted pages 102-3: Les Ragionamenti, 'Les Roueries des Hommes'
de Sade, Marquis: L'Œuvre du Marquis de Sade
Paris: Bibliothèque des Curieux, 1909
Guillaume Apollinaire (introduction, bibliographic essay and notes)
Apollinaire, Guillaume: Œuvres Poétiques
Paris: Gallimard Pléiade, 1967 [1965]
Notes: book ribbon at LIII (Chronologie)
Baudelaire, Charles: Œuvres complètes
Paris: N.R.F / Gallimard Pléiade, 1951
Y.-G. Le Dantec (ed.)
Notes: book ribbon at page 94/95, poems 'La Beauté', 'L'Idéal', and 'La Géante'.
Mallarmé, Stéphane: Œuvres complètes
Paris: Gallimard Pléiade, 1961 [1945]
Notes: book ribbon at page 1138-9
Lautréamont, Comte de: Œuvres complètes d'Isidore Ducasse
Paris: Livre de poche, 1968
Texte établi par Maurice Saillet
Inscription: à Samuel Beckett / en hommage amical / Maurice Saillet
Fontaine, Jean de la: Œuvres complètes de la Fontaine
Paris: Igonette, Libraire, 1826
Nouvelle Edition
Notes: - précédées de l'éloge de l'auteur, par Chamfort. Nouvelle édition ornée d'un portrait et de douze gravures; - binding very fragile - front cover taped into spine
Rimbaud, Arthur: Œuvres de Arthur Rimbaud: vers et prose
Paris: Mercure de France, 1929
Paul Claudel (preface)
Reading traces on: 71, 75, 77, 84*, 85*, 86*, 87*, 89, 90*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Villon, François: Œuvres poétiques
Paris: René Hilsum, 1931
Reading traces on: 149*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Verlaine: Œuvres poétiques complètes
Paris: Gallimard Pléiade, 1968 [1962]
Reading traces on: insert*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: - book ribbons at 722 and 818; - corner of page 658 has been folded down in past; - an insert contains first lines of Verlaine, together with the classification as given in the book, ie F.G. = Fetes Galantes, S= Sagesse, P.S. = Poemes saturniens
Beckett refers to the last lines of Paul Verlaine's sonnet 'Mon rêve familier', from the first section ('Melancholia') of his Poèmes saturniens, in the French manuscript of Molloy (MS-HRC-SB-4-6, page 24v).
Arikha, Avigdor: Oil Paintings and Drawings
London: Marlborough London, 1982
Notes: paintings on pages 7, 15, 25, crossed out with black felt pen
Arikha, Avigdor: Oil Paintings, Pastels and Drawings
London: Marlborough London, 1986
Arikha, Avigdor: Oil Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings 1978
London: Marlborough London, 1978
Arikha, Avigdor: Oils, Watercolours, Pastels, Inks and Drawings
London / Tokyo: Marlborough London, 1988
Pinter, Harold: One for the Road
London: Methuen, 1985 [1984]
Inscription: To Sam / from / Harold
Solinas, Franco and Barbara Bray: Operation Shakespear: A Screenplay
1980
Notes: typescript
Darwin, Charles: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
London: Grant Richards, 1902
Reading traces on: 11, 57, 60, 179, 187, 275, 281, 293, 405.
Notes: - pages 57, 179, 275, 281, 293 and 405 have been folded down in the past - letter to Thomas MacGreevy, 4 August 1932 (LSB I 111): 'I bought the Origin of Species yesterday for 6d and never read such badly written catlap. I only remember one thing: blue-eyed cats are always deaf (correlation of variations).'; - no markings on page 187, which deals with the caterpillar (cf. Echo's Bones, Murphy, Watt)
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]
Ellmann, Richard: Oscar Wilde
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987
Inscription: 'For Sam. / With our very best wishes, / Seán & Catherine, / 13/10/'87'
Reading traces on: 4*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Harris, Frank: Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions
Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., 1930
Inscription: "Edith Bopping. / Bought 6th avenue. / New York. / Feb 1936"
Worth, Katharine: Oscar Wilde
London / Basingstoke: MacMillan, 1983
Inscription: For Samuel Beckett / With affectionate admiration / from Katharine Worth / November 1983.
Ellmann, Richard: Oscar Wilde at Oxford: A Lecture Delivered at the Library of Congress on March 1, 1983
Washington: Library of Congress, 1984
Pinter, Harold: Other Places: Three Plays
London: Methuen, 1982
Inscription: To Sam / love / Harold
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
Scholes, Percy A.: The Oxford Companion to Music
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1944 [1938]
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