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Vladislav, Jan: Václav Havel or Living in Truth
London: Faber & Faber, 1986
Jan Vladislav (ed.)
Cioran, E.M.: Valéry face à ces idoles
Paris: L'Herne, 1970
Inscription: 'Pour Suzanne et Samuel Beckett / avec toute mon amitié / [signed] // Paris le 5 juin 1970'
Ronald Pickvance (ed.): Van Gogh in Saint-Remy and Auvers
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986
exhibition catalogue
Ronald Pickvance (ed.)
Joyce, James: Verbannte
Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1968
Klaus Reichert (ed.)
Notes: seemingly unopened; still in paper slip jacket
Goldsmith, Oliver: The Vicar of Wakefield
New York / Chicago: Butler Brothers, n.d.
Notes: - marginalia: illegible note on title page (pencil); - bookseller's stamp (?): 'James Hislop & Co. [New London, Conn.]; - newspaper cutting from Daily Mail Saturday 14th August 19?? inserted page 131; - page 151 corner folded down
Mauriac, François: La Vie de Jean Racine
Paris: Plon, 1928
Reading traces on: 35, 49, 51, 80, 85, 86, 88, 95, 97, 99, 105, 120*, 124, 129*, 130, 131*, 140*, 142*, 165, 169, 193, 194*, 198, 200*, 227*, 229*, 242*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Bertin, Léon: La Vie des animaux
Paris: Larousse, 1952 [1950]
Dauphin, Henri: Vie du Dante: Analyse de la divine comédie
 Paris: A. Durand & Pédone Lauriel; Amiens: Prevost-Allo, 1869
Notes: - marginalia: 110, in sentence 'Quel honte pour un 'Alessio interminei da Lucca' there is a cross beside 'interminei', and at bottom of page written in pencil 'Interminelli'; - inscribed by author to one Monsieur [Gruillard]; - book too brittle to scan - no title page or images of marginalia
Rabelais, François: La vie très honorifique du grand Gargantua
Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, 1968
Chaamba, Abdallah: Le vieillard et l'enfant
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1954
Renard, Jules: Le Vigneron dans sa vigne
Paris: Editions Nilsson, 1901
Maguinness, William Stuart: Virgil and Milton
1961
Romanistas III.3&4
Inscription: 'With kindest wishes from / Stuart'
Notes: offprint
Dante Alighieri: The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory and Paradise
London: Bell and Daldy, 1869
Author's Corrected Edition
Henry Francis Cary (translation)
Inscription: '[M.G. Evershed] / £ 2,00 // Bequeathed by / M.A. Orr / to / Barbara Reynolds / Oct. 1949.'
 Beckett may be referring to the 'shades' of The Divine Comedy on page 12r of the manuscript of That Time, MS-UoR-1477-1.
Passerini, G.L.: Le Vite di Dante, scritte da Giovanni e Filippo Villani, da Giovanni Boccaccio, Leonardo Aretino e Giannozzo Manetti
Florence: G.C.Sansoni, 1917
Inscription: Samuel Beckett / 1936
Reading traces on: xix*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: - on cover: [M]. [J]. Doyle / Florence. / 1920; - Letter to Thomas MacGreevy, 25 March 1936 (LSB I 324): 'He [Maurice Sinclair] has dug out some more Italian books for me, including the Storie Fiorentine, which pleases me greatly; and I found some for myself at Webb's, left in by some little Jez called Boyle or Doyle, lepping fresh from Florence, including the accounts of Dante by the Villani, Boccaccio, Aretino & Manetti brought together in one volume.'
Mayoux, Jean-Jacques: Vivants Piliers: Le roman anglo-saxon et les symboles (Coleridge, De Quincey, Hawthorne, Melville, Henry James, Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Beckett)
Paris: Julliard, 1960
Les lettres nouvelles
Inscription: Pour Samuel Beckett / (et Suzanne " ) / en espérant n'avoir pas trop [trahi] / Bien cordialement. / Jean Jacques Mayoux
Notes: title page uncut; from Hawthorne to Conrad pages mostly uncut
Dux, Pierre: Vive le Théâtre: Souvenirs pour Elodie
Paris: Stock, 1984
Inscription: 'A monsieur Samuel Beckett / avec l'admiration, / en reconnaissance et l'amitié / de Pierre Dux'
Nicola Zingarelli (ed.): Vocabolario della lingua italiana
Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli, 1954
Nicola Zingarelli (ed.)
Inscription: [Bxxxingaulli]
Lalande, André: Vocabulaire technique et critique de la philosophie
Paris: Librairie Félix Alcan, 1932
Notes: 3 volumes; postcard [Paris Church] inserted at page 106 [letter R] in volume 3
Joyce, James: The Voice of Shem: Passages from Finnegans Wake, Freely Adapted for the Theater by Mary Manning
London: Faber & Faber, 1958
Denis Johnston (introduction)
Lynch, Brian: Voices from the Nettle-Way
Dublin: Raven Arts Press, 1989
Inscription: For Samuel Beckett / Every day, and even in the night, / it escapes, that brilliant light. / Brian Lynch / 26 - 4 - 89
Bestermann, Theodore: Voltaire
London / Harlow: Longmans, Green and Co., 1969
Inscription: "for Samuel Beckett / Th. B."
Notes: piece of paper inserted page 374, chapter 29, 'La Pucelle, 1755'
Rhys, Jean: Voyage in the Dark
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978
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