8vo. Half-title. Original cream gilt-lettered calf, edges gilt; original flexible cloth slipcase (some minor soiling).

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 73 of 100 "Series A" copies SIGNED BY BECKETT, and printed in advance of the first trade edition. No's Knife comprises a collection of 20 of Beckett's prose works, including 19 which were originally written in French. The translations are by Beckett, occasionally in collaboration with Richard Seaver. In a variant full calf binding not called for in the publisher's limitation statement. Federman & Fletcher 386.1.