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Fahy, Catherine: W. B. Yeats and his Circle
Dublin: The National Library of Ireland, 1989
Inscription: 'Sam. / I thought this might be of / interest to you. / Our love / [signed] / 28.ii.1989'
Flannery, James W.: W. B. Yeats and the Idea of a Theatre
New Haven / London: Yale University Press, 1976
Inscription: 'To Samuel Beckett, with / profound admiration and / respect. / James W Flannery / Kingston. Rhode Island / February 1977'
Ellmann, Richard: W. B. Yeats's Second Puberty: A Lecture Delivered at the Library of Congress on April 2, 1984
Washington: Library of Congress, 1985
Zeltner-Neukomm, Gerda: Das Wagnis des französischen Gegenwartromans: Die neue Welterfahrung in der Literatur
Reinbeck bei Hamburg: Rohwolt, 1960
Notes: discussion of Butor, Robbe-Grillet, Sarraute, Beckett, Queneau, Camus, Malraux, Sartre
Auster, Paul: Wall Writing
Berkeley: The Figures, 1976
Cox, Trenchard: A General Guide to the Wallace Collection
London: 1933
Location: Lilly Library - Indiana University Bloomington
Inscription: Saml Beckett
Reading traces on: 121.
Notes: Printed for His Majesty's Stationary Office and Sold at Hertford House
Witte, Bernd: Walter Benjamin: Une biographie
Paris: Cerf, 1988
André Bernold (translation)
Inscription: pour Sam / affectueusement / André / 21.4.88
von der Vogelweide, Walther: Walther von der Vogelweide, Altdeutsch und übertragen von Walther Bulst
Berlin / Leipzig: Der Tempel Verlag, n.d.
Jan Vladislav (ed.)
Inscription: 'S Beckett / Hamburg Nov 1936'
Notes: bookseller's price and date at the bottom of the page '2.10 / 23.x.36.'
Crébillon, Fils: The Wayward Head and Heart
London / New York / Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1963
Barbara Bray (translation)
Rayner Heppenstall (introduction)
Dictionary: Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language
Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1961
3rd ed., unabridged
Dictionary: Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language
New York: New American Library, 1974
2nd College Edition
David Bernard Guralnik (ed.)
Rilke, Rainer Maria: Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke
n.d.
Inscription: Pour Sam ces vieux dessins / et toute mon amitié. / Avigdor / Paris, juillet 1959
Notes: in hebrew
Fontane, Theodor: Werke
Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag, 1958
Walter Keitel (ed.)
Notes: 2 volumes
Kant, Immanuel: Werke, Vol. I
Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1922
Ernst Cassirer (ed.)
Location: The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
Notes: 11 volumes
Kant, Immanuel: Werke, Vol. III
Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1922
Ernst Cassirer (ed.)
Location: The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
Reading traces on: 40, 45, 46, 49, 119.
Notes: 11 volumes
Hölderlin, Friedrich: Werke, Briefe, Dokumente
München: Winkler Verlag, 1977 [1963]
Inscription: 'Zur Erinnerung an / "Was Wo" / Stuttgart, 27.6. 85 / Walter / xxx / Wolfgang / xxx'
Kant, Immanuel: Werke, Vol. V
Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1922
Ernst Cassirer (ed.)
Location: The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
Reading traces on: 384*, 385*, 417*, 420*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: 11 volumes
Kant, Immanuel: Werke, Vol. XI
Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1921
Ernst Cassirer (ed.)
Location: The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
Reading traces on: 5, 13, 22, 28, 30, 46, 68, 97, 109, 135, 137, 140*, 142*, 144*, 145, 149, 156, 157, 159, 163*, 164, 165, 169, 179, 181, 207, 208*, 218*, 222, 242, 244*, 247*, 251, 259, 261, 264, 265, 276, 278, 281, 284*, 295*, 305, 316, 333*, 334*, 339*, 340, 343, 344, 347*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: - 11 volumes; - inserted at the back is a four-page carbon copy of a typed list with all the titles of works included in the eleven volumes (with their original date of publication)
 on page(s): 5 [zone 1]
Yeats, William Butler and Lady Gregory: Where There is Nothing / The Unicorn From the Stars
 Washington D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press; Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1987
Katharine Worth (introduction)
Inscription: For Sam, with love / and gratitude for his / life-inspiring works. / Katharine Worth / October 1987.
Byrne, Patrick: The Wildes of Merrion Square: The Family of Oscar Wilde
London / New York: Staples Press, 1953
Yeats, William Butler: The Wind Among the Reeds
London: Elkin Mathews, 1943
4th ed.
Inscription: For Sam on his / eightieth birthday, / April 1986. / With love & admiration / Katharine Worth / (August November) 1986
Reading traces on: 18*, 34*, 40, 52, 74. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: date seems to be 1943, but title page says MDCCCCIII. The marginalia in this book are unlikely to be Beckett's.
Atik, Anne: Words in Hock: Poems
London: Enitharmon Press, 1974
Inscription: For Sam, / the onlie, / Love, / Anne / Paris, August. 1974.
Notes: 500 copies, plus 30 containing original signed etching by Avigdor Arikha.
Sterne, Laurence: The Works of Laurence Sterne, Vol. 4
Dublin: printed for D. Chamberlaine, J. Potts and W. Colles, 1780 [1779]
contains A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, Letters from Yorick to Eliza and Sterne's Letters to his Friends
Inscription: 'To Liam O'Flaherty / from / Margaret [Barrington]'
Notes: ex Libris book plate: 'The Honble Thos. Knox', with elaborate insignia by hand on top of inside cover
Shakespeare, William: The Works of William Shakspeare
London / New York: Frederick Warne and Co, n.d.
The "Universal" Edition
Reading traces on: 225, 808, 811, 821, 823, 946insert*, 1087*. (*: page contains marginalia)
Notes: scrap of a diary inserted page 946-47 (Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, scenes 3 and 4): 'Avigdor PLM 11 (photo) / Briquets / foie / whiskey' We owe a debt of gratitude to James Little for offering a correction to the title.
 Beckett seems to allude to King Lear on page 16v of the 'Kilcool' Notebook, MS-TCD-4664. He quotes from the The Tempest on page 02r of the third typescript of Not I, MS-UoR-1227-7-12-4.
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