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8vo. (A few tiny pale spots.) Original printed red wrappers, stapled as issued (some fading to outer margins, some staining, rust stains from staples).

FIRST EDITION OF BECKETT'S FIRST BOOK,  LIMITED ISSUE, number 213 of 300 numbered copies (100 signed, this copy being unsigned). WITH ONE HOLOGRAPH CORRECTION BY BECKETT ON PAGE 2.

Whoroscope was entered into a competition for the best poem on Time organized by Nancy Cunard's The Hours Press, where it was awarded the £10 prize.  Beckett later recalls in a letter to Cunard: "Whoroscope was indeed entered for your competition and the prize of I think 1000 francs. I knew nothing about it till afternoon of last day of entry, wrote first half before dinner, had a guzzle of salad and Chambertin at the Cochon de Lait, went back to the Ecole and finished it about three in the morning. Then I walked down to the Rue Guenegaud [the office of The Hours Press] and put it in your box. That's how it was and them were the days" (Lake, Eichhorn and Leach No Symbols Where None Intended, Austin, 1984). Federman & Fletcher 5; Published in Paris p.411.