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Greene, David H. and Edward M. Stephens: J.M. SYNGE: 1871-1909
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959
Notes: Inserted / stuck to first page (opposite inside front cover) is a scrap of a newspaper with drawing of Synge by Jack B. Yeats of 1905.
La Sacra Bibbia
Roma: Società Biblica Britannica e Forestiera, 1924
Inscription: 'S. B. Beckett / Trinity College / Dublin'
Reading traces on: 27*, 52*, 56*, 57, 816, 819*, 820, 822*, 824, 830, 846, 1090*, 1101*, 1115*, 1172*, 1173. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: All marginalia in blue ink are references to Voltaire's Lettres d'Amabed, notably the footnotes to the Troisième lettre du journal d'Amabed (Van Hulle and Nixon 2013, p. 181).
 In the manuscript of En attendant Godot on page 05r, Lévy (Estragon) describes the maps of 'The Holy Land' in the Bible in a way that is a good match with the map in this copy.
Ussher, Arland: Sages & Schoolmen: Philosophers from Pythagoras to Eckhart
Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1967
Inscription: for Sam / from Arland / Xmas '77
Michaut, G.: Sainte-Beuve
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1921
Reading traces on: flyer, flyerinsert*, 192*, 193*, 195*, 200*, 203*, 205*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: - inside front cover attached flyer from 'Librairie Gibert', which also carries date '9-1-24';- on front of this paper SB (presumably) has noted names of French writers
Sainte Bible
New York: Société Biblique Américaine, 1874
David Martin (ed.)
Notes: small scraps of paper inserted page 131 (Numbers V) and 191 (Deut. XXIII-IV)
 Beckett quotes verse 13:24 from the Book of Proverbs ('Celui qui ménage sa verge hait son fils' – 'He that spareth his rod hateth his son') in a (later omitted) passage from the French manuscript of Malone meurt on page 63r, and quotes Genesis 1:10 on page 67r of the same manuscript. He quotes from Martin's translation of Lamentations (3:22–3) on page 06r and page 07r of the second manuscript of Pas moi, MS-UoR-1396-4-26, and from 2 Corinthiens (13:13), on page 05r of the first typescript of Pas, MS-BC-1991001-12-24-1. He quotes from Jean 9:4 on page 14r of the 'Petit Odéon' Notebook, MS-UoR-2927.
Sainte Bible
Paris: 1921
Nouvelle édition revue
Louis Segond (ed.)
Notes: front cover missing
 Beckett quotes Genesis 1:10 in the manuscript of Malone meurt (MS-HRC-SB-7-2, page 67r). He also quotes from Segond's translation of James (5:11) and 1 John (4:8) on page 06r of the second manuscript of Pas moi, MS-UoR-1396-4-26.
Toussaint, Jean-Philippe: La Salle de bain
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1985
Schopenhauer, Arthur: Sämmtliche Werke, Vol. 1
Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1923
2nd ed.
Julius Frauenstädt (ed.)
Reading traces on: 2_1, 2_4, 2_5, 2_7, 2_9, 2_10*, 11, 2_11, 2_12, 2_14, 2_15, 2_22, 23, 24, 26*, 27, 39, 40, 42insertrecto*, 42insertverso*, 2_48, 48, 2_49, 2_50*, 2_51, 2_52, 2_53*, 54, 56, 57, 58, 2_64*, 2_65, 94, 96, 100, 106*, 108, 112, 114, 115, 123, 124, 125, 142*, 143*, 144, 145*, 147, 149, 150, 152, 153, 154, 157*, 158, 162, 164, 169, 170, 175*, 177, 178, 180, 181, 184, 187, 197, insbackcover*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: - marginalia: volume 1: 'Einleitung des Herausgebers': 11 / 23 / 24 / 26 / 27 / 39 / 40 / 48 / 54 / 55 / 57 / 58 / 94 / 96 / 100 / 106 / 108 / 112 / 114 / 115 / 123 / 124 / 125; 'Arthur Schopenhauer: Ein Lebensbild vom Herausgeber': 142-5 / 147 / 149 / 150 / 152-4 / 157-8 / 161 / 162 / 164 / 169-70 / 175 / 177 / 178 / 180-1 / 184 / 187 / 197; Schrifiten zur Erkenntnislehre: 'Ueber die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom zureichenden Grunde': 1 / 4 / 5 / 7 / 9-12 / 14-15 / 22 / 48-53 / 64 / 65 / inside back cover //; volume 2: Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, 'Vorrede zur ersten Auflage': viii / xi; 'Vorrede zur zweiten Auflage: xix / xx / xxiv / xxv //; volume 3: none (Die Welt as Wille und Vorstellung II, beginning with 'Ergänzungen zum Ersten Buch'); volume 4: none (Schriften zur Naturphilosophie und zur Ethik); volume 5: from 'Fragmente der Geschichte der Philosophie': 47 (Parerga und Paralipomena I); volume 6: none (Parerga und Paralipomena II); - orange scrap of paper torn in half, the first halp inserted on page 42 in volume 1: 'carcass + craze' (r), '[Flesh fell +] unreason' (v), the second on page 12 in volume 2: 'Flesh fell + [unreason]';- piece of paper inserted in volume 5 on page 344 ('Von dem, was einer isst'). 7) piece of paper inserted in volume 6 on page 526 (Kapitel XXII, 'Selbstdenken')
Schopenhauer, Arthur: Sämmtliche Werke, Vol. 2
Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1923
2nd ed.
Julius Frauenstädt (ed.)
Reading traces on: viii*, xi, xix, xx, xxiv, xxv, 12insert*. (*: page contains marginalia)
 Beckett cites the line 'Suave, mari magno' by Lucretius, which he possibly encountered in Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (I.60), in the manuscript of Malone meurt (MS-HRC-SB-7-4, page 24r).
Schopenhauer, Arthur: Sämmtliche Werke, Vol. 3
Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1923
2nd ed.
Julius Frauenstädt (ed.)
Schopenhauer, Arthur: Sämmtliche Werke, Vol. 4
Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1923
2nd ed.
Julius Frauenstädt (ed.)
Schopenhauer, Arthur: Sämmtliche Werke, Vol. 5
Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1923
2nd ed.
Julius Frauenstädt (ed.)
Reading traces on: 47.
Schopenhauer, Arthur: Sämmtliche Werke, Vol. 6
Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1923
2nd ed.
Julius Frauenstädt (ed.)
Claudius, Matthias: Sämtliche Werke
Berlin / Darmstadt: Tempel Verlag, 1958
Location: The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
Notes: - card inserted pp. 884-85, at letter from Claudius to Voss, 21/08/1774, which includes 'Der Tod und das Mädchen'; - postcard of drawing of SB by Scott Ingersoll, inserted on page 982-83 (Nachwort); - book ribbon at 'Daten und Ereignisse', page 991
Hölderlin, Friedrich: Sämtliche Werke
Leipzig: Insel Verlag, [1926]
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Inscription: 'SB / 24/12/37'
Reading traces on: 62, 87, 88, 89, 90, 440, 441, 442, 445, 453*, 454, 466*, 467, 469*, 471, 472*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Kenner, Hugh: Samuel Beckett: A Critical Study
New York: Grove Press, 1961
Inscription: "Januari 22, 1962. / For Samuel Beckett / as to Sam from Kram. / HughKenner"
Ellmann, Richard: Samuel Beckett: Nayman of Noland: A Lecture Delivered at the Library of Congress on April 16, 1985
Washington: Library of Congress, 1986
Inscription: Richard Ellmann
Leventhal, A.J.: Samuel Beckett, about him and about
1972
Hermathena CXIV
Inscription: 'For Sam / [fons] et origo / with love / Con 3.VIII.73'.
Notes: a lecture delivered on 22 February 1972 in Trinity College on the occasion of the exhibition of Beckett's works, MSS etc. in the Library of Trinity College; offprint
Arikha, Avigdor: Samuel Beckett by Avigdor Arikha: A Tribute to Samuel Beckett on his 70th Birthday
London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1970
Bate, W. Jackson: Samuel Johnson
San Diego / New York / London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, n.d.
Yung, Kai Kin: Samuel Johnson 1709-84
London: The Herbert Press, 1984
With essays by John Wain, W. W. Robinson and David Fleeman
Yeats, Jack Butler: In Sand (a play) with The Green Wave
Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1964
Jack MacGowran (ed.)
Notes: proof copy
Schneider, Alexander: Sasha: A Musician's Life
New York: Folio Graphics Co., 1988
Inscription: In great admiration / Sasha / 1988.
Spoon, Harriman: Scatastrophes
Limited Edition Ltd., 1981
Simond, Charles: Schiller 1759-1805
Paris: Bibliothèque Larousse, n.d. [1907]
Notes: at end of book, pages with Schiller Chronology uncut
Kirsch, Sarah: Schneewärme: Gedichte
Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1989
Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Schriften, Vol. 1
Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1960
Inscription: inside cover: 'RENATE HANDKE, / To Samuel Beckett / Germany, 9-25-67' flyleaf: "Nicht wie die Welt ist, / ist das Mystische, / sondern, daß sie ist..." / (L. Wittgenstein) "Ich hätte dieses Werk / gerne zur Ehre Gottes / geschrieben ...." / (L. Wittgenstein, / "The Brown Book")
Reading traces on: 24*, 26*, 185*, 278insertrecto*, 278insertverso*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: The annotations appear to have been made by Renate Handke; only a sample of the annotated pages has been made.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Schriften, Vol. 2
Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1960
Reading traces on: insert*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Deutsch, Otto Erich: Schubert: Die Dokumente seines Lebens
Basel / Kassel: Bärenreiter Verlag, 1980 [1964]
Notes: - seemingly a reprint 'in the German Democratic Republic / 1980'; - bookmark inserted at page 60, and a bookmark made of laminated stamps inserted at page 296
Moore, Gerald: The Schubert Song Cycle and Thoughts on Performance
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1975
Notes: - bookseller's sticker on inside front cover - Galignani, Rue de Rivoli, Paris - top left corner in pencil '030375' [date?] 2.'; - price corner cut
Duras, Marguerite: The Sea Wall
London / Boston: Faber and Faber, 1986
De Quincey, Thomas: Selected Essays of De Quincey
London / Felling-on-Tyne: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., n.d.
Sir George Douglas (introduction)
Inscription: 'S.B. Beckett / Trinity College / Dublin / March 1927'
Notes: - book stamp on inside cover of Fred Hanna, Bookseller in Nassau Street, Dublin; - includes essay 'On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts'
Keats, John: Selected Letters
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1954
The World's Classics
Frederick Page (selection)
Notes: book ribbon at pages 10-11
Thomas, Edward: Selected Poems and Prose
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981
David Wright (ed.)
Reading traces on: 59, 68, 72*, 73, 74*, 75, 90, 114*, 170*, 171, 182*, 184*, 189, 193, 194*, 196*, 197, 211, 229, 248*, 249*, 250, 252, 254, 270, 271. (*: page contains marginalia)
Donne, John: A Selection of his Poetry
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1958 [1950]
John Hayward (introduction)
Notes: page 59 folded down, poem 'The Will'
Berenson, Mary: A Self-Portrait from Her Letters & Diaries
New York / London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1983
Barbara Strachey and Jayne Samuels (ed.)
Yeats, William Butler: The Senate Speeches of W. B. Yeats
London: Faber and Faber, 1961
Donald R. Pearce (ed.)
Austen, Jane: Sense and Sensibility
London: Oxford University Press, 1959
Lord David Cecil (introduction)
Mayoux, Jean-Jacques: Shakespeare
Paris: Seghers, 1966
Inscription: "Pour Samuel Beckett / avec l'affectueux dévouement / de Jean Jacques Mayoux"
Mayoux, Jean-Jacques: Shakespeare
Paris: Aubier Montaigne, 1982
Inscription: Pour Samuel Beckett / en toute affection / Jean Jacques Mayoux
Notes: - corners on the following pages have been folded down and then up again: 29, 61, 65, 67, 77, 85, 87, 91, 95, 111, 115, 119, 131, 139, 145, 147, 149- cardboard paper inserted page 77, beginning of second chapter
Halliday, F.E.: A Shakespeare Companion 1564-1964
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1964
Cousin, John W.: A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1925 [1910]
Revised ed.
Inscription: 'Greta [M. Yeo] Wilson'
Reading traces on: 3*, 5*, 6*, 7*, 9*, 11*, 13*, 16*, 17*, 29*, 30*, 106*, 218*, 311, 385, 422*, 423*, 425*, 426*, 428*, 429*, 430*, 431*, 432*, 433*, 434*, 435*, 436*, 437*, 438*, 439*, 440*, 441*, 444*, 445*, 446*, 447*, 449*, 450*, 451*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: previous owner's name on inside front cover
Dictionary: A Short Biographical Dictionary of Foreign Literature
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1933
R. Farquharson Sharp (ed.)
McDowell, C.H.: A Short Dictionary of Mathematics
New York: The Philosophical Library, 1957
Henrietta O. Midonick (introduction)
Green, John Richard: A Short History of the English People
London: Macmillan, 1920 [1916]
rev. and enlarged ed.
Inscription: 'F.E. Beckett / July 1920'
Dictionary: The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972
Notes: bookseller's sticker on inside front cover: Galignani, Paris; 2 volumes
Pepys, Samuel: The Shorter Pepys: Selection from the Diary of Samuel Pepys
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987
Robert Latham (ed.)
William Matthews (ed.)
Leyda, Jay: Sidney Myers: Vision is my Dwelling Place
n.d. [1969]
Jones, Ernest: Sigmund Freud: Life and Work
London: The Hogarth Press, 1953
Notes: 3 volumes: Volume 1 -'The Young Freud 1856-1900'; Volume 2 - 'Years of Maturity 1901-1919'; Volume 3 - ''.
Biely, Andrey: The Silver Dove
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1974
George Reavey (translation and introduction)
Inscription: To Sam / with All the Best [Aries] / Wishes and Love — / George / 11 April 1975
Reading traces on: xv*. (*: page contains marginalia)
O'Casey, Sean: The Silver Tassie
London: Macmillan, 1928
Reading traces on: 140*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Sidur, Vadim: Skulpturen, Graphik
Konstanz: Universitätsverlag, 1978
Notes: - photocopy of letter, plus transcription, of letter from SB to Sidur, 9.8.75 inserted in front of book;- le photo de couverture represente la sculpture qui se trouve sur le balcon du bureau de Sam
Sidur, Vadim: Skulpturen, Graphiken
Schloss Charlottenburg, 1980
Notes: exhibition catalogue, September 1980
Gorky, Maxim: A Sky-Blue Life and Selected Stories
New York: The New American Library, 1964
A Signet Classic
George Reavey (translation and foreword)
Inscription: 'for Sam / a more than / wonderful life / George / NY July 24 / '64'
Blakeney, E. H.: A Smaller Classical Dictionary
 London & Toronto: J. M. Dent; New York: E.P. Dutton, 1923 [1910]
Everyman's Library No 495
Inscription: 'H.V. Limerick / December, 1925'
Notes: adorned ex libris of Bishop of Limerick, 1925
Smith, William: A Smaller History of Rome
London: James Walton/John Murray, 1868
Inscription: 'Lily Verschoyle'
Notes: - owner's name on title page: 'Lily Verschoyle';- inside cover bookseller's sticker: Greene & Co., Dublin
Ionesco, Eugène: Le Solitaire
Paris: Mercure de France, 1973
Egan, Desmond: A Song for My Father
 Newbridge: Kavanach Press; Calstock: Peterloo Poets, 1989
Inscription: Des
Inscription: Desmond Egan
Notes: - letter dated 28 October 1989 to SB inserted in front of book; - the volume is dedicated to Beckett - the dedication is circled and signed
Logue, Christopher: Songs
London: Hutchinson and Co., 1959
Inscription: "To Samuel Beckett, / who shall be remembered. / Christopher Logue."
Shakespeare, Wiliam: The Sonnets
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1988
M. R. Ridley (ed.)
Shakespeare, Wiliam: The Sonnets and The Lovers' Complaint
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986
John Carrogan (ed.)
Mayoux, Jean-Jacques: Sous de vastes portiques: Etudes de littérature et d'art anglais
Paris: Nadeau et Papyrus, 1981
Les lettres nouvelles
Vivants Piliers II
Dostoievski, Fjodor: Souvenirs de la maison des morts
Paris: Librairie Plon, 1930
39th ed.
M. Neyroud (translation)
Notes: date is speculative
Reavey, George: Soviet Literature Today
London: Lindsay Drummond, 1946
Inscription: Sam / bien amicalement / George / June '47
Notes: - inserted into rear of book, what appears to have been a book plate with 'official representatives of British Culture, Archangel, 1942' — with George Reavey one of the three men;- signed by Reavey: 'Sam / après la [torpille] / George'
Cafferty, Bernard: Spassky's 100 Best Games
London: B. T. Batsford, 1972
Sachs, Nelly: Späte Gedichte
Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1965
Inscription: Für Sam Beckett / O du Drama schwarze Zeit - / Nelly / Stockholm d. 28.1.67
Brunschvicg, Leon: Spinoza et ses contemporains
Paris: Librairie Félix Alcan, 1923
Baudelaire, Charles: Le spleen de Paris: petits poèmes en prose
Paris: Le Livre de Poche, 1976 [1972]
Yves Florenne (ed.)
Reading traces on: 187.
Notes: - the word "Engerer" has been written on the inside of the back cover; - page 187 folded down: in section "Epilogue"
Dictionary: Der Sprach-Brockhaus
Wiesbaden:: F.A. Brockhaus, 1958 [1951]
7th ed.
de Sanctis, Francesco: Storia della letteratura italiana, Vol. 1
Bari: Gius. Laterza & Figli, 1925
Benedetto Croce (ed.)
Inscription: 'S. B. Beckett / Florence / May 1927'
Reading traces on: 56*, 57, 58, 159. (*: page contains marginalia)
de Sanctis, Francesco: Storia della letteratura italiana, Vol. 2
Bari: Gius. Laterza & Figli, 1925
Benedetto Croce (ed.)
Reading traces on: 23*, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185*, 218, 225, 247, 249, 261, 264, 267, 274, 275, 276, 277, 353, 354*, 355, 356, 357*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: - Inscription of second volume has not been scanned — the paper is creased and crumpled and the inscription hardly legible; both volumes are also very brittle, and on the verge of falling apart. - Two National Library slips inserted in volume 2 page 222, both for books on Aubanal, one by Welter, the other by Legré. No date given.
Moore, George: A Storyteller's Holiday, Vol. 1
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928
Location: The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
Inscription: '[L.] Marie Sinclair (&) / [Dormar T. Arius.]'
Agnon, S.Y.: A Stray Dog
Jerusalem: Tarshish Books, 1960
Inscription: Pour Sam avec ma très affectueux / amitié, / Avigdor / Paris, mai 1962
Notes: in Hebrew; inserted in front a typescript of Barbara Rose, The Drawings of Avigdor Arikha, 1970
Le Brocquy, Louis: Studies towards an Image of William Shakespeare
Paris: Galerie Jeanne Bucher, 1982
Bernard Noel (ed.)
Cioran, E.M.: Syllogismes de l'amertume
Paris: Gallimard NRF, 1952
Les Essais LII
Notes: - title page uncut; - inserted at front of book, review of Cioran's La Chute dans le Temps, from L'Express, 28 Dec. 1964 - 2 Jan. 1965
Nerval, Gerard de: Sylvie: Aurelia
Éditions de la Bibliothèque Mondiale, 1953
Notes: paper inserted page 64
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