Nouvelles et Textes Pour Rien [Stories and Texts for Nothing] [Signed by Beckett]. This item is unavailable.Nouvelles et Textes Pour Rien [Stories and Texts for Nothing] [Signed by Beckett]

Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1958. First Illustrated Edition and Second Edition Overall, limited to 2000 copies of which this is no. 539. Small octavo (18.5cm); publisher's white pictorial wrappers in original glassine dust jacket; 220pp.; frontispiece and five leaves of line drawings. Light wear to wrapper and jacket margins, spine panels toned and textblock a bit toned, else a Very Good, unopened example. Signed by Beckett on title page. Compilation of thirteen short stories and prose pieces, including many of Beckett's earliest forays into writing in French. Beckett began these works as early as 1946, writing to the poet George Reavey, "I hope to have a book of short stories ready by the spring (in French). I do not think I shall write very much in English in the future" (No Symbols, p. 81). Nine years passed before the book in question was first published, in 1955. References: No Symbols Where None Intended: A Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, and Other Material Relating to Samuel Beckett in the Collections of the Humanities Research Center, pp. 81-8 Federman & Fletcher 263.1.…