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BECKETT, Samuel.
Premier Amour. 1970
£150
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 99 numbered copies.
Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in blue and black. An excellent copy, unopened. Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
Séjour. 1970
£975
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 125 numbered copies signed by the author and artist on the verso of the half-title.
Long quarto. Set of 10 unbound, folded leaves in white paper wrappers printed in black. With the original cloth slipcase. Frontispiece and 4 engravings by Jean... Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
Sejour 1970
£950
First Edition First Printing. From a total run of 190 copies, this is one of 150 signed by Beckett and bearing the printed signature of Deyrolle who died just before publication. One...
Small Oblong folio. Unbound sheets in white paper chemise, titles to upper wrapper and backstrip in black. With the original unprinted glassine and buff cloth slipcase... Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
Signature Series. Lessness. 1970
£225
First English language edition, first impression, originally published in French as Sans in 1969. This copy bears on the front free endpaper the ownership inscription of Jack...
Octavo. Original light blue cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Evidence of bookplate removal from rear pastedown. An excellent copy in the very... Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
Solo suivi de catastrophe. 1982
£150
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 99 numbered copies.
Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black. An excellent uncut copy. Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
Texts For Nothing. 1974
£125
First UK edition, first impression, hardback issue.
Octavo. Original grey boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine slightly rolled and faded. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed and marked jacket. Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
That Time. 1976
£50
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black. An excellent copy. Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
The European Caravan. 1931
£1,250
First edition, first printing. This was the sole volume published of a far more extensive project designed to bring a cross section of cutting edge world literature to the American...
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in green, green top-stain. With the dust jacket. Light partial tanning and a few spots to endpapers, contents faintly... Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
Waiting for Godot. [1956]
£12,500
Evergreen paperback edition. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the title page, "For Nancy [Cunard] with love from Samuel Paris April 1956", and with Cunard's...
Octavo. Original wrappers printed in black. Housed in a quarter black morocco box. Browning to two leaves from inserted newspaper clipping, wrappers lightly marked... Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
Waiting for Godot. A tragicomedy in 2 acts. 1954
£1,875
First English language edition, first impression. Originally published in France in 1952.
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in silver and copper and to boards in blind, red endpapers. With the dust jacket. 4 plates from photographs. Ownership... Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
Waiting for Godot. A tragicomedy in two acts. 1965
£575
First revised edition, first impression. Originally published in 1956.
Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine in red. With the dust jacket. A few faint spots to spine, faint partial tanning to free endpapers. An excellent copy in... Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
Waiting for Godot. A Tragicomedy in Two Acts. 1956
£600
First UK edition, first printing.
Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine in red. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the dust jacket that is slightly rubbed at the head and tail of the spine... Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
Watt. 1953
£9,750
First edition, first impression. One of just 25 lettered copies printed on handmade paper each signed by the author. The smallest limitation of any of the author's major works and a...
Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box made by The Chelsea Bindery. Wrappers a little toned, particularly to... Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
Watt. 1959
£3,750
First US edition, first printing, clothbound issue. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the title page, "for Dan Pope from Sam Beckett" and signed beneath by Barney...
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Very minor rubbing at the bottom tips of the spine but an excellent copy in the nicked and... Read more
BECKETT, Samuel.
Watt. 1959
£150
First US edition, first printing, clothbound issue.
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. A superb copy in the very lightly rubbed jacket. Read more
BECHET, Sidney.
Treat in gentle. 1960
£60
First edition. One of the great jazz autobiographies, transcribed from tape recordings made just the year before Bechet's death. Jacket design by Saul Lambert.
Octavo. Original orange cloth lettered in black on the spine, orange top-stain. With the dust jacket. 16 plates, illustrated title page/frontispiece by David Stone... Read more
BEAUVOIR, Simone de.
Force of Circumstance. 1965
£225
First US edition, first printing of the third volume of the author's autobiography, originally published in France in 1963. This copy inscribed on the front free endpaper by...
Large octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt on blue ground and to upper board gilt, red top-stain. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the rubbed... Read more
BEATTIE, William.
The Danube: its history, scenery, and topography... 1842
£525
Quarto. Original brown morocco heavily blocked in brown, spine and upper cover elaborately lettered in gilt, spine with gilt leaf motifs in compartments, gilt inner dentelles,...
Quarto. Original brown morocco heavily blocked in brown, spine and upper cover elaborately lettered in gilt, spine with gilt leaf motifs in compartments, gilt inner... Read more
BEATSON, Stuart, Brigadier-General.
A History of the Imperial Service Troops of Native States, 1903
£375
First and only edition, print-run of 250 copies only and consequently uncommon. COPAC has BL and SOAS only, OCLC adds just 3 more at the universities of Minnesota and Pennsylvania,...
Octavo. Original blue cloth with white corners, title gilt to spine and upper board, pale blue patterned endpapers. Folding map, part hand-coloured in a front-pocket.... Read more
BEATSON, Robert.
Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain, 1804
£2,250
Second edition, the first, published in 1790, was in three volumes, this continues the account down to the conclusion of the War of Independence, "Particularly useful for the army's...
6 volumes octavo (208 × 129 mm) Contemporary red morocco, title gilt direct to flat spines, compartments formed by greek key rolls containing foliate devices,... Read more
(BEATON, Cecil.) MELLOR, David.
Cecil Beaton. 1986
£50
First edition, first impression. A hardbound exhibition catalogue to coincide with Beaton's retrospective at the Barbican Art Gallery, London.
Quarto. Original grey cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout. Near fine in toned dust jacket, corners rubbed, one closed tear... Read more
BEATON, Cecil.
British Photographers 1944
£50
First edition, first impression. One of Collins's Britain in Pictures series, conceived as "cultural propaganda" to promote British values and to accurately describe aspects of...
Octavo. Original light brown paper covered boards, titles to front cover and spine in white. With the dust jacket. 4 plates in colour, 8 in sepia and 20 in black and... Read more
BEATON, Cecil.
India. 1945
£750
First de luxe edition, first impression, from the library of the author, purchased from Elkin Matthews in 1981 and sold as lot 14 at Sotheby's Hodgson's sale on April 9, 1981. With...
Quarto. Original red boards, titles to upper board gilt. Black and white illustrations by Cecil Beaton throughout. Bookplate of David John Gilson. Boards lightly... Read more
BEATON, Cecil.
Near East. 1943.
£500
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To dearest, Bianca, with all good wishes, from Cecil, 1949".
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board in yellow, top edge stained red. With the pictorial dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece and 23... Read more
BEATON, Cecil.
Sketch of Pierrot. ca. 1930
£1,500
Signed by the artist.
Size: 360 x 240 mm. Framed size: 530 x 430 mm Ink on paper. Excellent condition. Read more
