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godot Beckett, Samuel. EN ATTENDANT GODOT. Paris: Les Editions De Minuit, 1952. First trade edition. Printed wrappers. 8vo. Preceded only by the 35-copy large paper edition. Especially fine_._[together with]__Beckett, Samuel. WAITING FOR GODOT. Translated from the French by the author. New York: Grove Press, [1954]. First edition in English. 8vo. Illustrated with photographs. Hardcover. A fine copy in an equally fine dust jacket of this groundbreaking play in which: "Nothing happens, twice.".
$10,000.00
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Beckett, Samuel. STIRRINGS STILL. New York / London: Blue Moon Books / John Calder, [1988]. First edition. ISBN: 3518403435. Folio. Illustrated with drawings by Louis le Brocquy, including one original duotone lithograph. One of 200 numbered copies signed by author and artist (of a total edition of 226). Lithographically printed on deckle-edged Velin de Rives paper and quarter bound in parchment and natural linen stamped in 18-carat gold. This lovely livre d'artiste quickly went out of print. Beckett's last work of fiction, a haunting foreshadowing of his death in the following year. Hardcover. As new in publisher's cloth slipcase, as issued.
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Beckett, Samuel. Three Postcard-Sized Signed Autograph Letters on his letterhead, 1982-3. Writing from Paris, Beckett answers a request for information about the recipient of a copy of "Murphy" that Beckett had inscribed: "Laz Aaronson was a poet and economist from London. He taught I think at the London School of Economics. He wrote fine verse unjustly neglected. He died about 15 years ago ... He was a good friend and showed me great kindness ... Sam Beckett." In the second letter Beckett responds to a request for a written interview commissioned by the Los Angeles Times: "I am not good at answering questions about my work to which, once written, I give no further thought to unless for the tiresome business of self-translation. So please make your questions as few and simple as possible." The last letter finds Beckett digging in his heels: "I have no answers to such questions. I am sorry to disappoint you." Some 200 words in all. Fine in the original handwritten envelopes.
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whorescope Beckett, Samuel. WHOROSCOPE. Paris: Hours Press, 1930. First edition. 8vo. One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author. The rest of the edition comprised 200 unsigned copies. This copy bears the scarce original wraparound label that announces Beckett as the prize-winner of a contest sponsored by the Hours Press to compose a poem on the concept of time. Beckett, who was at the time indigent, wrote an elaborate Cartesian narrative as the contest deadline loomed, completing: "Half before dinner, had a guzzle of salad and Chambertin ... and finished it about three in the morning." He then put the poem in the mail. A just-about fine copy of this fragile rarity. Housed in a custom-made chemise and slipcase.
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boyle Boyle, Kay. SHORT STORIES. Paris: Black Sun, 1929. First edition of the author's first book. Small 4to. One of 150 numbered copies on Holland Van Gelder Zonen. Laid into this copy is a 1987 ALS from Boyle to a bookseller in which the 87-year-old author ruminates on the settling of her affairs: "I think there is no doubt that you should be my literary executor, not only because of my great affection for you as a person, and my respect, but because you know far more about my work than I do." Some 475 bittersweet words. Printed wrappers. Fine in original publisher's glassine and gold-foil chemise with ties as issued.
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Bukowski, Charles. THE DAYS RUN AWAY LIKE WILD HORSES OVER THE HILLS. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. First edition. 4to. One of 50 numbered copies signed by Bukowski and with an original illustration by him of a bespectacled creature tipped-in. Hardcover. Fine in acetate dust jacket, as issued.
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bukowski Horsemeat Bukowski, Charles. HORSEMEAT. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. First edition. Folio. Illustrated with tipped-in color photographs of Bukowski at the racetrack by Michael Montfort. One of 125 numbered copies signed by the author and the photographer (only 100 of which were offered for sale), this being the publisher's copy, so designated on the colophon page. Laid in is a pictorial prospectus (one of 26 lettered copies signed by Bukowski, this being copy "A"). A high-water mark for the press in terms of both inspiration and execution.   Hardcover. Fine in acetate dust jacket , as issued.
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bukowski Longshot Bukowski, Charles. LONGSHOT POMES FOR BROKE PLAYERS. New York: 7 Poets Press, [1962]. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with drawings by the author. An early title that ranks among the author's scarcest. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. Housed in a custom-made clamshell box.
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Bukowski, Charles. TRUE STORY, ON GOING OUT TO GET THE MAIL, TO KISS THE WORMS GOODNIGHT, THE GIRLS / FOR THE MERCY-MONGERS, and THE FLOWER LOVER / I MET A GENIUS. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, [1966]. First editions. 5 broadside poems. Folio. Each broadside is one of 27 numbered copies signed by the author (of a total edition of 30). Publisher John Martin remembers giving many of the broadsides away to random visitors in a time when Bukowski was virtually unknown. Broadsides. A fine, complete set of these rare Bukowski broadsides, which comprise five of the first six titles published by the Black Sparrow Press (Morrow & Lafourcade 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6). Early Bukowski and, at this late juncture, virtually unobtainable. Housed in a custom-made chemise and clamshell box.
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Bukowski, Charles. THE WEDDING. San Pedro: Brown Buddha Books, 1986. First edition. 4to. With eleven tipped-in photographs by Michael Montfort. One of 40 numbered copies signed by Bukowski and Montfort (the entire edition). Issued to celebrate the marriage of Bukowski and Linda Lee Beighle. This copy has the bride's surname misspelled on the colophon page. A corrected colophon appears in some but not all of the copies with the error. One of the book's photographs -- a portrait of Linda kneeling in front of Bukowski and mending his trousers -- was deemed perversely suggestive by the bride and most of the edition bears a replacement photograph that shows the couple dancing. Laid into this copy are two photographs, the first of which depicts Bukowski smiling ruefully as if he knew his leukemia was in its final stage, the second a color photograph of his headstone, beside which a single rose has been placed. Hardcover. Fine.
$6,500.00
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burroughs naked lunch Burroughs, William S[eward]. THE NAKED LUNCH. Paris: Olympia Press, [1959]. First edition, first issue. 12mo. Laid into this copy is a photo-postcard signed by Burroughs. The image is well-known, depicting Buroughs in Tangier in 1961, surrounded by other icons of the Beat Generation, including Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corse, Paul Bowles, and Peter Orlovsky. Decorated wrappers. A splendid copy of the author's magnum opus -- fine and in a fine dust jacket.
$10,000.00
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