Lessness by Beckett Samuel (19 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st English Edition. Ist English edition. Slight cover wear . Internally fine. pp.21.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Booklet No. 9 in the Signature Series. The publisher's blurb references the link to the writer's previous work Ping and the collapse of 'some such refuge - with the ensuing situation of the refugee.' The translation is by Beckett himself from the original French Sans. All the text is clear and crisp, indeed the typography and text size assist legibility. However, there is internal tanning and the card covers (especially the rear one) are quite creased in places with some tanning along the perimeters. Closed tear on rear cover. Last page (pp. 21) has some rubbing in top left-hand corner. pp. 21. 12mo. (The publication date comes via the ISBN - not from the book itself). Please note that, depending on destination, we may request a payment to cover any extra shipping & postage charges.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good first English edition.Translated by author from the French. Binding square and tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Slight creasing to corners. Some rubbing to front cover. Slight age toning to spine. A desirable first edition.

Spiral Bound. Condition: Very Good. Special authorized adaption of Samuel Beckett's unique "shuffled" text (1970). Cloverleaf format, ring-bound on all four sides to permit multiple permuted readings. Printed in black on Countryside Mistral, in Chambord, with graphic background adumbrated in grey. 100 numbered copies. Missing slipcase. Kickshaws Press is mentioned in the notes of James Knowlson's biography of Samuel Beckett.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback in good condition. Covers are sunned. Corners are slightly bumped and rubbed. Page block is tanned. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Slender paperback in very good condition. From the collection of Gay McAuley, an honorary professor at the University of Sydney's Department of Performance Studies, formerly the Director of the Centre for Performance Studies, and a noted scholar in performance and theatre, ownership penned to FEP. Light shelf and handling wear, including minor tanning and small blemishes to cover, tanning and foxing to pageblock. Within, pages are tightly bound, content unmarked. CN.

First English edition. 8vo, pp. 21. [Signature 9.] Originally published in French as Sans; translated by the author. Paper wraps. Slight soil on cover, o/w a nice copy. A short piece about the state of being a refugee.

Original-Pappband mit Schutzumschlag, 8°. 21 Seiten Umschlag bestossen und stark gebräunt, sonst gut.

21, [3]pp. 1 vols. 12mo. First edition, issue in wrappers. First edition, issue in wrappers. 21, [3]pp. 1 vols. 12mo. White wrappers, slight soiling, otherwise near fine.

Soft. Condition: Very Good. 21pp. Pages clean and bright, soft covers tidy. Size: 8vo. Pamphlet.

Soft. Condition: Good. First UK Edition. Pages clean and bright, glue repair to cracked gutter at rear endpaper, light rubbing and some foxing to covers. Size: 12mo.

Soft. Condition: Good. First Edition. Signature Series, Number 9. 'Lessness has to do with the collapse of some such refuge as that last attempted in "Ping" and with the ensuing situation of the refugee.' Soft covers with clear plastic protective covering, reading edges and spine lightly browned, small stain to head of rear cover, 21 pages clean, unmarked, binding sound. Size: 12mo.

Hardcover. Condition: Wie neu. Dust Jacket Condition: Wie neu. 1. Auflage. 1. Watt. London: Calder & Boyars, 1963. First English Edition, Second Printing (1970). A near fine copy. 2. Eh Joe & Other Writings. London: Faber and Faber, 1967. First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy in a (near) fine dustwrapper. 3. Lessness Signature 9. London: Calder & Boyars, 1969. First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy in a (near) fine dustwrapper. 4. Three Occasional Pieces. London: Faber and Faber, 1982. First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy in (near) fine original printed wrappers.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition thus. Designed, hand-set, and hand-printed by John Crombie. Square 24mo. Measuring approximately 5¾" x 5¾". Overlapping leaves with comb-binding on all four sides so that the leaves can be laid down in different sequences. Fine in fine slipcase. One of 100 copies printed. *Lessness* was first published by Calder & Boyars in 1970. An interesting publication. *OCLC* locates 10 copies, six in the U.S.

First U.K. edition. Translated from the French by the author. Octavo. pp 21, [iii].Number 58 of 100 copies numbered and signed by the author and specially bound in quarter vellum with cloth sides; all edges gilt.Just a hint of tanning to the spine. Fine in fine cloth slipcase.

Condition: Fine. First Edition. Limited Edition. #16/100 copies, Numbered and SIGNED by the Author on the leaf after the copyright page. Fine in quarter polished leather stamped in glit at spine, dark army green cloth boards, all edges gilt, headbands, in slipcase of same green cloth hue, without dustwrapper as issued. 21pp. Slight toning to spine. Q20356 Hardcover in publisher's slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First English trade edition, clothbound issue,issued as Signature 9. Small octavo. 21pp. Cloth. A few small soil marks on endpapers and a few pages of text, else a near fine copy in near fine, bright dust jacket. Inscribed by Beckett to *New Yorker* author Brendan Gill: "for Brendan Gill with all good wishes Samuel Beckett, Paris April 1971". A nice association copy. Gill wrote at least two reviews of Samuel Beckett plays for the *New Yorker* on January 7 and January 21, 1980.

First edition thus: specially authorised edition designed and printed by John Crombie. Square 12mo. Unpaginated. ''Cloverleaf interactive format'' in which overlapping leaves are held by plastic comb bindings on all four sides, allowing random sequencing. Number 24 of 100 copies.Fine in the original slipcase.

Ringbound in Slipcase. Condition: As New. First Edition. Limited Edition, initially to 100 copies. This copy is For Presentation, hors commerce, INSCRIBED by the Publisher John Crombie to a third party on the colophon leaf. Eccentric "cloverleaf" binding, ringbound in four quadrants, each separate square sheet folding inward. There is no order to the sequence, which is thus random, honoring the spirit of Beckett's conception of the separate paragraphs. Illustrated with minimalist decorative pale sepia rectangles on some leaves. A Very Fine copy in publisher's Very Fine slipcase covered in light grey diagonal grid paper. Lessness was originally published as a traditional book in 1970 by Calder and Boyars. Q13192.