The Collected Works. [Cascando and Other Short Dramatic Pieces; Film; Endgame; Happy Days; How It Is; Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces; More Pricks Than Kicks; Murphy; Poems in English; Proust; Stories & Texts for Nothing; Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable; Waiting for Godot; Watt].

BECKETT, Samuel.

Published by New York: Grove Press, 1970

About this Item

First collected edition, signed limited issue, number 23 of 200 sets signed by the author in Waiting For Godot. The set encompasses Beckett's oeuvre up to 1970, following his receipt of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature. The publishers advertised Beckett's canon in their influential literary magazine Evergreen as "the most astonishing body of work in modern literature" (Baxter, p. 31). The limited issue was only available as a set. An unsigned trade edition was sold by individual volume. James Baxter, Samuel Beckett's Legacies in American Fiction: Problems in Postmodernism, 2021. 16 vols, octavo. Film illustrated with photographic half-tones. Original black cloth, spines and front covers lettered within gilt rules, pale blue patterned endpapers. No dust jackets issued. Spines faded, as usual, gilt remaining bright, Murphy pp. 13-28 unopened, a couple of vols with minor rubbing, foxing to outer leaves of Film, else contents clean. A near-fine set.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Collected Works. [Cascando and Other Short Dramatic Pieces; Film; Endgame; Happy Days; How It Is; Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces; More Pricks Than Kicks; Murphy; Poems in English; Proust; Stories & Texts for Nothing; Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable; Waiting for Godot; Watt].
• Publisher: New York: Grove Press, 1970
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)