BECKETT, Samuel. -- GOREY, Edward, illustrator. Beginning to End. NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1988. LIMITED EDITION, number 252 of 300 numbered copies SIGNED BY BECKETT AND GOREY of a total edition of 326.
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BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). -- GOREY, Edward (1925-2000), illustrator. Beginning to End. New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1988.
8vo. Illustrated. Original black cloth-backed pictorial boards.
LIMITED EDITION, number 252 of 300 numbered copies SIGNED BY BECKETT AND GOREY of a total edition of 326, the second of two collaborations between Beckett and Gorey. "Beginning to End is composed of extracts from my work (prose, verse, theatre) connected to form a dramatic monologue. It was devised and performed over the years...by my friend Jack MacGowran, who died recently in New York....I had nothing to do with this production. It's [sic] validity depended entirely on the personality of MacGowran, his Irishness and extraordinary feeling for and affinity with my work. It was uniquely his property and objectively is quite untransmissible" (The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1966-1989, pp. 34-35). Not in Federman & Fletcher; Toledano B76b.
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