Lessness by Beckett Samuel, Used (14 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st English Edition. Ist English edition. Slight cover wear . Internally fine. pp.21.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback in good condition. Covers are sunned. Corners are slightly bumped and rubbed. Page block is tanned. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First British trade edition, clothbound issue. Translated by the author. Endpapers slightly foxed, very good in a slightly soiled good only dust jacket with a 1" chipped tear on the front panel archivally mended on the verso, a few scratches on the front panel and light toning. Issued as Signature 9.

First English edition. 8vo, pp. 21. [Signature 9.] Originally published in French as Sans; translated by the author. Paper wraps. Slight soil on cover, o/w a nice copy. A short piece about the state of being a refugee.

Soft. Condition: Good. First UK Edition. Pages clean and bright, glue repair to cracked gutter at rear endpaper, light rubbing and some foxing to covers. Size: 12mo.

Soft. Condition: Good. First Edition. Signature Series, Number 9. 'Lessness has to do with the collapse of some such refuge as that last attempted in "Ping" and with the ensuing situation of the refugee.' Soft covers with clear plastic protective covering, reading edges and spine lightly browned, small stain to head of rear cover, 21 pages clean, unmarked, binding sound. Size: 12mo.

Original-Pappband mit Schutzumschlag, 8°. 21 Seiten Umschlag bestossen und stark gebräunt, sonst gut.

21, [3]pp. 1 vols. 12mo. First edition, issue in wrappers. First edition, issue in wrappers. 21, [3]pp. 1 vols. 12mo. White wrappers, slight soiling, otherwise near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Wie neu. Dust Jacket Condition: Wie neu. 1. Auflage. 1. Watt. London: Calder & Boyars, 1963. First English Edition, Second Printing (1970). A near fine copy. 2. Eh Joe & Other Writings. London: Faber and Faber, 1967. First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy in a (near) fine dustwrapper. 3. Lessness Signature 9. London: Calder & Boyars, 1969. First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy in a (near) fine dustwrapper. 4. Three Occasional Pieces. London: Faber and Faber, 1982. First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy in (near) fine original printed wrappers.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition thus. Designed, hand-set, and hand-printed by John Crombie. Square 24mo. Measuring approximately 5¾" x 5¾". Overlapping leaves with comb-binding on all four sides so that the leaves can be laid down in different sequences. Fine in fine slipcase. One of 100 copies printed. *Lessness* was first published by Calder & Boyars in 1970. An interesting publication. *OCLC* locates 10 copies, six in the U.S.

Condition: Fine. First Edition. Limited Edition. #16/100 copies, Numbered and SIGNED by the Author on the leaf after the copyright page. Fine in quarter polished leather stamped in glit at spine, dark army green cloth boards, all edges gilt, headbands, in slipcase of same green cloth hue, without dustwrapper as issued. 21pp. Slight toning to spine. Q20356 Hardcover in publisher's slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First English trade edition, clothbound issue,issued as Signature 9. Small octavo. 21pp. Cloth. A few small soil marks on endpapers and a few pages of text, else a near fine copy in near fine, bright dust jacket. Inscribed by Beckett to *New Yorker* author Brendan Gill: "for Brendan Gill with all good wishes Samuel Beckett, Paris April 1971". A nice association copy. Gill wrote at least two reviews of Samuel Beckett plays for the *New Yorker* on January 7 and January 21, 1980.

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, ownership inscription of Anglo-Canadian author John Metcalf to half-title, pp. 21, [1, series list], crown 8vo, original wrappers, near fine. Inscribed by the author on the title-page, 'For Colin Huggett, Samuel Beckett'.

Ringbound in Slipcase. Condition: As New. First Edition. Limited Edition, initially to 100 copies. This copy is For Presentation, hors commerce, INSCRIBED by the Publisher John Crombie to a third party on the colophon leaf. Eccentric "cloverleaf" binding, ringbound in four quadrants, each separate square sheet folding inward. There is no order to the sequence, which is thus random, honoring the spirit of Beckett's conception of the separate paragraphs. Illustrated with minimalist decorative pale sepia rectangles on some leaves. A Very Fine copy in publisher's Very Fine slipcase covered in light grey diagonal grid paper. Lessness was originally published as a traditional book in 1970 by Calder and Boyars. Q13192.