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Arikha, Avigdor: Paintings 1957-1965 and 1968
Tel-Aviv: The Tel-Aviv Museum, 1973
Arikha, Avigdor: Paintings and Watercolours 1973-1975
New York: Marlborough New York, 1975
Arikha, Avigdor: Paintings, Drawings and Pastels
New York: Marlborough New York, 1983
Milton, John: Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books
London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1904 [1898]
5th ed.
The Temple Classics
Notes: book ribbon is at page 248; many pages uncut throughout the book (at regular intervals)
Milton, John: Paradise Regain'd: A Poem in Four Books. To Which is Added Samson Agonistes, etc.
London: printed for J. Tonson, 1713
5th ed.
Reading traces on: inscover, inscription.
Cunard, Nancy: Parallax
London: Hogarth Press, 1925
Inscription: 'To You / from Nancy / 1930'
Baedeker, Karl: Paris et ses environs
Paris / Leipzig: Larousse, 1947
Inscription: 'S.B. Beckett'
Janvier, Ludovic: Une parole exigeante: le nouveau roman
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1964
Inscription: pour Samuel Beckett / en témoignage de / vive admiration, ces / [écarts] de langage / Ludovic Janvier
Bishop, Tom: Le passeur d'océan: Carnets d'un ami américain
Paris: Payot, 1989
Inscription: For Sam / In faithful friendship / as ever - / Tom / Nov. 89.
Picasso, Pablo: Pastelle, Zeichnungen, Aquarelle
Stuttgart: Gert Hatje, 1986
Werner Spies (ed.)
Notes: Exhibition Catalogue Kunsthalle Tübingen
Pears Cyclopedia
Isleworth: Pears, n.d.
57th ed.
Notes: previous owner's name on inside front cover: J. Hendry, Aden, 1948;- there are some notes in same hand on front page
Magnin, J.: La Peinture au Musée de Dijon
Besançon: Imprimerie Jacques et Demontrond, 1933
3e édition revue et complétée
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Reading traces on: card-FR-1*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Madden, Anne: Peintures et dessins récents
Cannes: Galerie Joachim Becker, 1985
Notes: exhibition catalogue; July - August 1985
Madden, Anne: Peintures et papiers récents
Saint-Paul: Fondation Maeght, 1983
Inscription: For Sam / With Love / Anne.
Notes: exhibition catalogue; February - March 1983
Hayward, John: The Penguin Book of English Verse
London: Penguin, 1956
John Hayward (ed.)
Forster, Leonard: The Penguin Book of German Verse
London: Penguin, 1959 [1957]
Leonard Forster (ed.)
Kay, George: The Penguin Book of Italian Verse
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1958
Brittain, Frederick: The Penguin Book of Latin Verse
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962
Steiner, George: The Penguin Book of Modern Verse Translation
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966
George Steiner (ed.)
Dictionary: Penguin Companion Dictionary English-Spanish / Spanish-English
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982
Fitter, Richard and Maisie Fitter: The Penguin Dictionary of British Natural History
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1967
Dictionary: The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972 [1960]
J.M. & M.J. Cohen (ed.)
Attwater, Donald: The Penguin Dictionary of Saints
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966 [1965]
Pascal, Blaise: Pensées
Paris: Flammarion, n.d.
Édition de 1670
Ernest Flammarion (ed.)
Inscription: Samuel Beckett
Marc-Aurèle: Pensées pour moi-même, suivi de Manuel d'Épictète
Paris: Garnier Flammarion, 1964
Mario Meunier (edited and translated)
Notes: bookseller's pencil note on inside front cover '2 70'
Hibbert, Christopher: The Personal History of Samuel Johnson
London: Longman, 1971
Hale, Jane: Perspective in the Theater of Samuel Beckett
Stanford: 1984
Inscription: [long letter; not included in scans]
Notes: PhD dissertation; postcard inserted at page 52
Austen, Jane: Persuasion
London: Oxford University Press, 1960
Forrest Reid (introduction)
Plümacher, O. von: Der Pessimismus in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart: Geschichtliches und Kritisches
Heidelberg: Georg Weiss Verlag, 1888
2nd ed.
Reading traces on: 1, 2*, 19insert*, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 124*, 124insert*, 125insert*, 125, 126, 126insert*, 127insert*, 127, 128, 128insert*, 129insert*, 129, 130, 130insert*, 131insert*, 131, 132*, 132insert*, 133insert*, 133, 134, 134insert*, 135insert*, 135, 136, 136insert*, 137insert*, 137, 138insert*, 139insert*, 140, 140insert*, 141insert*, 141*, 142, 142insert*, 143insert*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: Blank pages have been bound into the book all the way through – these have been used to make notes, or more often than not, translations from the text proper. Most of the notes on the interleaves are not in Samuel Beckett's hand (Van Hulle and Nixon 2013, 153).
Dictionary: Petit Larousse illustré
Paris: Larousse, 1974
Maguinness, William Stuart: Petit plaidoyer pour la poésie trochaique
Rome: Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 1963
Rivista di cultura classica e medioevale V.2
Notes: offprint
Dictionary: Petit Robert
Paris: 1967
Notes: second copy from 1972 — monkey bookmark at page 482-483 (between diffuseur and dimanche)
Duruy, Victor: Petite histoire générale extraite de l'abrégé d'histoire universelle
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1883 [1874]
Bishop, Morris: Petrarch and his World
London: Chatto & Windus, 1964
Clarke, P.H.: Petrosian's Best Games of Chess
London: G. Bell and Sons Ltd., 1964
Goichon, A.-M.: La Philosophie d'Avicenne et son influence en Europe médiévale
Paris: Adrien-Maisonneuve, 1951
Deuxième Edition Revue, Corrigée et Augmentée
Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987 [1985]
Peter Ackroyd (ed.)
MacGreevy, Thomas: Pictures in the Irish National Gallery
Cork: The Mercier Press, 1945
Inscription: 'For Sam / from / Tom / comme toujours / Dublin 1946'.
Hedberg, Johannes: Pieces on Joyce
Lund: The James Joyce Society of Sweden and Finland, 1986
Inscription: 'To Samuel Beckett, / with the compliments / of the author, / Johannes Hedberg'
Notes: adorned ex libris of Bishop of Limerick, 1925
Pinder, Wilhelm: Die Pietà
Leipzig: E. A. Seemann,
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Notes: Bookmark between pp. 10 and 11 (unnumbered).
Pinter, Harold: The Pinter Review
University of Tampa, 1987
Notes: 1:1
Madden, Anne: Peintures
Barcelona: Galeria Maeght, 1985
Notes: exhibition catalogue
Plautus: Plautus in Four Volumes, vol. 1
London: Heinemann, 1916
Paul Nixon (translation)
Reading traces on: 258*, 346, 446. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: The entire book, up until first act of The Captives, is heavily marked, with words and lines underlined with crayon, and in particular brown and blue pencils; the occasional cross. Most of the markings are in the Latin text, on verso pages. Three sample scans taken: 258 / 346 / 446. Includes Amphytrion, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, Bachides or The Two Bacchises, The Captives.
Chekhov, Anton: Plays
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1959
Elisaveta Fen (translation and introduction)
Reading traces on: 187.
Notes: - includes Ivanov, The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Uncle Vania, Three Sisters, and three short plays. - scrap of paper inserted at page 159 [The Seagull] with note '4256 7080'; - page 187 folded down, opening page of Uncle Vania
Chekhov, Anton: Plays
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1980 [1959]
Elisaveta Fen (translation and introduction)
Notes: includes Ivanov, The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Uncle Vania, Three Sisters, and three short plays
Marlowe, Christopher: Plays and Poems
London: Dent & Sons, 1963 [1955]
Everyman
Notes: bookseller sticker inside front cover: W.H. Smith & Son in Paris
Dictionary: Pocket Oxford Dictionary
Oxford: Clarendon, 1947
Reprint with corrections
Fowler, H. W. and F. G. Fowler (ed.)
Lawrence, D.H.: Poèmes
Paris: Aubier Flammarion, 1976
J.-J. Mayoux (ed.)
Inscription: Pour Samuel Beckett / qui excusera / l'impossible entreprise / Jean-Jacques Mayoux
Notes: bilingual edition
Éluard, Paul: Poèmes d'amour / Love Poems
Wiltshire: 107 Workshop, 1984
Edition de haut luxe sous coffret
S.W. Hayter (illustrations)
Brian Coffey (version)
McGreevy, Thomas: Poems
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1934
Inscription: 'Sam / from Tom / Chelsea, England, May,/ 1934'.
Reading traces on: 3, 4, 5, 12, 13, 18*, 27, 30*, 31*, 35, 38, 38insert, 45*, 51, 52, 53*, 55, 56, 57. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: - all marginal lines and notes made in red pen;- inserted on page 38, a cutting which includes MacGreevy's poem 'On the Death of Joseph Djugashvili alias Stalin' - Beckett's note on top of page reads 'Univ Review / June [62]'
Pinter, Harold: Poems
London: Enitharmon Press, 1968
[hbk]
Alan Clodd (selection)
Inscription: To Sam / from Harold
Notes: copy 33 of 200 signed by author
Pinter, Harold: Poems
London: Enitharmon Press, 1968
[pbk]
Inscription: Samuel Beckett / with kind regards / from Alan Clodd.
Notes: inserted at front: typescripts of poems 'Message' and 'The Doing So'
Pinter, Harold: Poems
London: Enitharmon Press, 1971 [1968]
2nd ed., with additional poems
Inscription: Harold Pinter [signed]
Egan, Desmond: Poems for Peace
Dublin: AFRI [Action from Ireland], 1986
Seán MacBride (introduction)
Inscription: 'April 1986 / For Sam Beckett / on his 80th birthday / '... our valiant necessary / wanderer to the edges of / this interpreted world' / with admiration and love / [signed]
Notes: signed typescript of the poem 'Echo's Bones' (For Sam Beckett on his Eightieth birthday) inserted in front of book
Gray, Thomas: The Poems of Thomas Gray, with a Selection of Letters and Essays
London: Dent, 1928 [1912]
Everyman
de Vigny, Alfred: Poésies choisies
Paris: Librairie Larousse, 1935
Henri Maugis (ed.)
Notes: corner of page 76 folded down at some point
Apollinaire, Guillaume: Le Poète Assassiné
Paris: Au Sans Pareil, 1927
Nouvelle édition
Notes: inside cover note: '116-125' [does not seem to correspond to text in this copy: Le Roi-Lune starts 117]
Milton, John: Poetical Works
London: Oxford University Press, 1969
Douglas Bush (ed.)
Notes: bookseller's note on inside front cover: '19 00 pb'
Pope, Alexander: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with Life
Edinburgh: Gall and Inglis, n.d.
Inscription: Samuel Beckett / 3/36
Notes: previous owner's name crossed out: [xxx] A. [Wall/Watt?]
Byron: The Poetical Works of Lord Byron
Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, n.d.
Reading traces on: 541.
Notes: - with the life of Lord Byron by Alexander Leighton; - page 541 folded down (Childe Harold's Pilgrimage)
Johnson, Samuel: The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D
London: printed for W. Osborne, 1785
Location: The private collection of Noga Arikha, New York
Pasternak, Boris: The Poetry of Boris Pasternak
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1959
George Reavey (translation)
Inscription: For Sam / always / George / 28 Oct '59
Joyce, James: Pomes Penyeach
Paris: Shakespeare & Co., 1927
Farazzi, Patricia: La Porte peinte
Paris: L'Eclat, 1988
O'Brien, Eoin, Anne Crookshank and Gordon Wolstenholme: A Portrait of Irish Medicine: An Illustrated History of Medicine in Ireland
Swords, Country Dublin: Ward River Press, 1984
Inscription: To Samuel Beckett / In memory of Con, / Eoin O'Brien / 30 xii 84
Ellmann, Richard: A Portrait of the Artist as Friend
1956
Kenyon Review
Inscription: 'For Sam Beckett / with friendly greetings / Dick'
Notes: offprint, Kenyon Review (18.1, Winter 1956)
Solomons, Estella: Portraits of Patriots: With a Biographical Sketch of the Artist by Hilary Pyle
Dublin: Allen Figgis and Company Limited, 1966
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Janvier, Ludovic: Pour Samuel Beckett
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1966
Inscription: à Samuel Beckett / qui connait tout cela trop / bien, donc, / avec mes excuses / pour les écarts et les / manques / fidèlement / 27-1-66 / [signed]
Jaspers, Karl: Strindberg et Van Gogh: Hœlderlin et Swedenborg
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1953
Hélène Naef (translation)
Maurice Blanchot (preface)
Reading traces on: 275.
Keats, John: Poèmes choisis / Selected Poems
Paris: Aubier Flammarion, 1968
Albert Laffay (edited and translated)
Notes: bilingual edition
The Prayer Book as proposed in 1928 (The Book of Common Prayer)
London: Cambridge University Press, n.d.
Beckett seems to allude to a prayer for the dead from the Book of Common Prayer on page 04r of the third typescript of Footfalls, MS-UoR-1552-4.
Cioran, E.M.: Précis de décomposition
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1949
2nd. ed.; Les Essais XXXV
Notes: inserted on page 217, postcard from Smokey? adressed to Suzanne at Courmayeur, dated july 1965?
Sima: Présence de Sima 1891-1971
Paris: Le point Cardinal, 1981
Inscription: 'A Samuel Beckett / bien cordialement [signed]'
Notes: exhibition catalogue, May - July 1981; texte liminaire de Ludovic Kozovoi
Dumont, Jean-Paul: Les Présocratiques
Paris: Gallimard, 1988
Jean-Paul Dumont (translation)
Daniel Delattre (translation)
Jean-Louis Poirier (translation)
Notes: "Edition établie par Jean-Paul Dumont avec la collaboration de Daniel Delattre et de Jean-Louis Poirier."
Machiavelli, Niccolò: Le Prince
Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1947
Notes: bookseller's pencil info on inside front cover
Murphy, William M.: Prodigal Father: The Life of John Butler Yeats
Ithica / London: Cornell University Press, 1979
Leopardi, Giacomo: Prose: Con uno studio di Pietro Giordani
Milan: Istituto Editoriale Italiano, n.d.
Notes: - price of 1/- on inside cover; - postcard with stamp from Norwich inserted on page 158, addressed to S.B. at 34 Gertrude Street: '9/7/35/ Having a splendid / time & weather per- / fect. [Will] be [coming] / up to you [probably] / Monday / Will let / you know definitely / later. / Love / [?]'
Pinter, Harold, Joseph Losey and Barbara Bray: The Proust Screenplay: À la recherce du temps perdu
New York: Grove Press, 1977
Inscription: To Sam / Love / Harold
Kober, Jacques: Un Puits nommé Plongeon
Paris: Le pont de l'Epée, 1984
Geer van Velde (frontispiece and hors-texte)
Inscription: 'a Sam Beckett / avec amitié et le souvenir / de Bram, Marthe, Geer. / [signed]'
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