Beckett, Samuel

8vo (201 x 133mm.), first British edition of the English translations of these works, translated by the author, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO ALAN CLODD ("For | Alan Clodd | from | Samuel Beckett | Paris May 1971") on title page, original reddish-brown cloth, dust-jacket, collector's chemise and black cloth slipcase

Federman & Fletcher 376.1

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, when appropriate.
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PRESENTATION COPY OF ONE OF BECKETT'S MOST IMPORTANT AND POWERFUL STAGE WORKS.

The recipient Alan Clodd (1918-2002), grandson of Edward Clodd (friend of Meredith, Gissing and Hardy), was an Irish publisher, book collector and dealer, who worked with the Friends Ambulance Unit in Egypt in the Second World War and latterly lived in London, where he worked in the book trade, at the London Library and finally as a publisher (creating the distinguished Enitharmon Press). The bulk of his fine book collection, comprising over 20,000 volumes, was dispersed through Maggs Bros.