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Samuel Beckett

13th April 1906 - 22nd December 1989

Author

Overview

Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, poet, and literary translator

Works

Irish playwright, poet and novelist who spent much of his life in Paris and wrote in both French and English. His best-known work is the absurdist play Waiting for Godot (1955) appeared in French two years earlier.

Title Date Location Publication
Whoroscope 1930 Paris Hours Press
More Pricks than Kicks 1931 London Chatto & Windus
Echo's Bones 1935 London Europa Press
Murphy 1938 London George Routledge
En Attendant Godot 1952 Paris Editions de Minuit
Waiting For Godot 1954 New York Grove Press
Molloy 1955 Paris Olympia Press
Endgame 1958 New York Grove Press

 

 

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Beckett (Samuel) [A collection of 22 volumes of his works in translation], 1...

Hammer: £3,500

Beckett (Samuel) The Collected Works, 16 vol., 134 of 200 copies signed by a...

Hammer: £3,200

Beckett (Samuel) Nohow On, number 222 of 550 copies signed by the author and...

Hammer: £1,200

Beckett (Samuel) En attendant Godot: Pièce en Deux Actes, a little brow...

Hammer: £1,200

Beckett (Samuel) All That Fall, first edition, number 57 of 100 copies, sign...

Hammer: £1,100

Beckett (Samuel) Watt, first edition, one of 1,100 copies, original purple p...

Hammer: £700

Enitharmon Press.- Beckett (Samuel) The North, number 107 of 134 copies sign...

Hammer: £700

Beckett (Samuel) The North, number V of 15 copies signed by the author and w...

Hammer: £650

Beckett (Samuel) Lessness, first English edition, one of 100 copies signed b...

Hammer: £650

Beckett (Samuel) Echo's Bones, first edition, one of 327 copies, very li...

Hammer: £650

Beckett (Samuel) As No Other Dare Fail, number 26 of an edition limited to 5...

Hammer: £650

Beckett (Samuel) As the Story was Told, limited edition of 325 copies, origi...

Hammer: £550

Beckett (Samuel) The Theatrical Notebooks of ..., 4 vol., original cloth, du...

Hammer: £550

Beckett (Samuel) Imagination Dead Imagine, number 29 of 100 copies signed by...

Hammer: £550

Beckett (Samuel) Company, signed by author, this copy unnumbered, original v...

Hammer: £420

Beckett (Samuel) Waiting for Godot, first English edition, programme for the...

Hammer: £360

Beckett (Samuel) Watt, first hardback trade edition, jacket rubbed at head a...

Hammer: £260

Beckett (Samuel, author, 1906-89) Autograph Letter signed to &...

Hammer: £260

Beckett (Samuel) Murphy, first French edition, original wrappers and spine b...

Hammer: £200

Beckett (Samuel) Comédie et actes divers, first edition, number 50 of 8...

Hammer: £190

Beckett (Samuel) Endgame, first English edition, original cloth, dust-jacket...

Hammer: £190

Beckett (Samuel) Tous Ceux qui tombent, first edition in French of the autho...

Hammer: £160

Beckett (Samuel) Fin de Partie Suivi de Acte Sans Paroles, first edition, al...

Hammer: £160

Beckett (Samuel) Endgame, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, light ...

Hammer: £150

Beckett (Samuel) Watt, original boards, dust-jacket, light rubbing and minor...

Hammer: £140

Beckett (Samuel) En Attendant Godot, early reprint, 2 plain plates, uniform ...

Hammer: £75

Beckett (Samuel) 2 copies of subscription forms for Beckett's work S...

Hammer: £35

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