Samuel Beckett
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Über Ludwig Wittgenstein
Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1968
Kleist, Heinrich von: Ueber das Marionettentheater: Aufsätze und Anekdoten
Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1968 [1954]
Inscription: 'Für dich, von / Nancy'
Reading traces on: 8, 10*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: inside cover, bookseller price and date 'III 69 / 3,-'
Derrida, Jacques: Ulysse gramophone: Deux mots pour Joyce
Paris: Éditions Galilée, 1987
Inscription: 'pour Samuel Beckett / (puisque Joyce - et André Bernold / m'encouragent à prendre ce / prétexte pour oser lui dire enfin / mon admiration de toujours, et ma / reconnaissance) / J. Derrida / Paris le 4 février 1987'
Notes: We owe a debt of gratitude to Jean-Michel Rabaté and Shane Weller for their help with the transcription of the inscription.
Joyce, James: Ulysses
London: Bodley Head, 1960
Inscription: 'To Sam / with much affection / from Stosi, Bettina & John / in memory of the Lanb.'
 In the manuscript of En attendant Godot (MS-BNF-MY-440, page 13r), Beckett invokes the 'Cyclops' chapter and Alf Bergan's story about erection being a side effect of hanging.
Ellmann, Richard: Ulysses on the Liffey
London: Faber & Faber, 1972
Inscription: 'To Sam / affectionately / from Dick / Oxford, 2 February 1972'
Reading traces on: 94*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Lowry, Malcom: Under the Volcano
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books in association with Jonathan Cape, 1963 [1962]
Ellmann, Richard: The Uses of Decadence: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce
Vermont: Bennington College, 1983
Inscription: 'To Sam / with love / from Dick / Oxford / 8 August 1984'
Notes: originally delivered at Bennington College as Lecture Six in the Ben Belitt Lectureship Series, September 28, 1983
More, Thomas: Utopia
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1913 [1879]
Inscription: Samuel B. Beckett / Trinity College / Dublin / Michaelmas Term - 19223
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