BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). Molloy. --Malone meurt. --L'Innommable. Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1951, 1951, 1953. FIRST EDITIONS OF THE BECKETT TRILOGY, ordinary issues.
Sale 1023 - The Library of Jack Charles Davis, Sold to Support Charitable Institutions
May 3, 2022
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Sold for $594
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Lot Description
BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). Molloy. --Malone meurt. --L'Innommable. Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1951, 1951, 1953.
3 works in 3 volumes, 8vo. (Some overall browning as usual). All in original wrappers printed in blue and black, uncut and unopened or partially unopened (minor spotting to Malone meurt); Molloy in glassine.
FIRST EDITIONS OF THE BECKETT TRILOGY, ordinary issues. "The trilogy proceeds by way of collapse. Beckett’s successive monologuists, confined to a series of small rooms, try and fail to tell their stories; and each narrator is then revealed to be the alias, and each story the alibi, of its successor, until, pulling all of Beckett’s earlier creations down upon its nonexistent head, there is only the disembodied voice of the Unnamable" (Benjamin Kunkel, "Sam I Am," in The New Yorker, 30 July 2006). Federman & Fletcher 257, 258, 260.
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