BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). Watt. Paris: Collected Merlin, Olympia Press, 1953. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 368 of 1,100 copies.
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BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). Watt. Paris: Collected Merlin, Olympia Press, 1953.
8vo. Original printed plum wrappers (a few soft creases to covers, corners very slightly rubbed).
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 368 of 1,100 copies. Beckett wrote the majority of Watt, his second novel published in English, from the south of France during the Second World War. Narrated in four parts, the novel describes Watt's journey to and within Mr. Knott's house; the novel concludes with a fifth section of unincorporated addenda, which Beckett apparently intended for the novel, but never included. Federman & Fletcher 32.
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