beckett samuel edited eoin obrien (5 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 21x14cm. Soft cover. pp(2)XX(4)241(5). Illustrated card wrappers. VERY GOOD+ copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition, First Impression. 2011 first edition, first impression. Size octavo, 241 pages. Black hard cover with silver gilt titles to front cover and spine and paper vignette portrait of the author laid on to the front cover, blue end-papers, pale blue book mark ribbon. Condition fine, a very clean copy. First Edition, Limited edition of 1500 copies printed on Printed on 100 gsm Chinese Yulong Cream paper Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth, lettered and decorated in green to spine, front and rear panels, in the dustwrapper designed by Ted and Ursula O'Brien. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and lettering bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. 'Dream of Fair to Middling Women' (the title alludes to Chaucer's 'The Legend of Good Women' and Tennyson's 'A Dream of Fair Women') was Beckett's first novel, written in 1932 while the twenty-six year old author was living at the Trianon Hotel on the Rue de Vaugirard in Paris. The manuscript was submitted to a number of publishers at the time and rejected by all of them, later becoming the basis of the stories collected in 'More Pricks than Kicks' (1934) (both works share the central (autobiographical) character of Belacqua Shua). The novel had to wait sixty years to be published, the author forbidding the work's publication until, at the end of his life, he relented and agreed (in conversation with Eoin O'Brien) that it could be published, but not "until he was gone "for some little time". The book was to be published by John Calder but following a dispute O'Brien published the book in Dublin. Calder's UK edition and the American edition were subsequently published with a number of textual errors. The novel has recently been reissued by Faber and Faber, for which O'Brien's original Dublin text (and preface) has been reproduced. Beckett described the novel as "the chest into which I threw my wild thoughts". It is a work of tremendous energy and Joycean exuberance, as well as a key to many of the author's later works. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Condizione: Very Good. 1992. Paperback. A disbound publisher's copy from the collection of Édith Fournier, one of the editors of the book and Beckett's translator and friend. The work was published as a limited edition, this copy lacks the binding. Very good condition, nine (9) sections in total, each one alphabetised A-I, c 241pp. Presented in a leather book cover. Each section in very good condition, very lightly toned. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condizione: Very Good. 1992. Paperback. A disbound publisher's copy from the collection of ?dith Fournier, one of the editors of the book and Beckett's translator and friend. The work was published as a limited edition, this copy lacks the binding. Very good condition, nine (9) sections in total, each one alphabetised A-I, c 241pp. Presented in a leather book cover. Each section in very good condition, very lightly toned. . . . .