Samuel Beckett
Shop our selection of Samuel Beckett's work, featuring rare finds and first editions from one of the 20th century's most pivotal Irish novelists, playwrights, and poets.
Samuel Beckett, celebrated for his profound influence on literature, crafted works that continue to captivate and intrigue collectors and literature enthusiasts worldwide. His oeuvre, marked by its existential depth and minimalist style, includes seminal works that have shaped modern literature. His contributions have been recognised with numerous awards, highlighting his enduring legacy in the literary world.
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En attendant Godot.
BECKETT, Samuel.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /Effectively the earliest obtainable manifestation of Godot.Written between October 1948 and January 1949, the play was not produced until January ...
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Waiting for Godot:
BECKETT, Samuel.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /True first edition in English. The true first edition in English of one of the most important plays of the twentieth century, preceded by Beckett's...
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Pre-publication radio script for Words and Music.
BECKETT, Samuel.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00| /Rare unrecorded Samuel Beckett item. A pre-publication script for Beckett's Words and Music, a radio play in one act for two voices, produced by M...
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En attendant Godot.
BECKETT, Samuel.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /Earliest obtainable manifestation of Godot. The best copy we have handled of what is effectively the earliest obtainable manifestation of Godot; a ...
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Collected Poems in English and French.
BECKETT, Samuel.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00| /Reprints pretty much all the poetry from Whoroscope and Echo's Bones onwards. One of the less common Calder printings.First edition, first impresi...
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Happy Days:
BECKETT, Samuel.Original price £225.00 - Original price £225.00Original price £0.00£225.00£225.00 - £225.00Current price £225.00| /A great play and a beautiful piece of book design.First edition in English, first impression; 8vo; publisher's red cloth, titles to spine gilt, wi...
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Ill Seen Ill Said.
BECKETT, Samuel.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00| /The first UK edition is particularly susceptible to fading, unlike this copy which has no fading at all.First UK edition, first impresion; 8vo; pu...
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Play
BECKETT, Samuel.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /The jacket reproduces a scene from Play which could not be more Beckettian if it took steroids!First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's r...
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How It Is.
BECKETT, Samuel.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /One of 100 copies - signed by the author. There were two limited issues of this first printing of How It Is. One in tan morocco, as here, and one i...
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Portrait photograph of Samuel Beckett.
[BECKETT, Samuel]. BRASSAI.Original price £4,250.00 - Original price £4,250.00Original price £0.00£4,250.00£4,250.00 - £4,250.00Current price £4,250.00| /With photographer's presentation inscription. A stunning portrait of Beckett in his absolute prime, showing his head and shoulders, leaning slightl...
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Comedie et Actes Divers.
BECKETT, Samuel.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /Inscribed presentation copy. Prints several dramatic pieces most of which were originally written in English and translated here by Beckett himself...
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Nouvelles et textes pour rien.
BECKETT, Samuel.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /One of 1100 numbered copies - inscribed by the author. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the half title page, 'for John and Vera...
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Ill Seen Ill Said.
BECKETT, Samuel.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /Inscribed by the author. Inscribed by the author to his cousin and his partner: 'For John and Ruth, with much love from Sam. Paris, 18.4.82'.First ...
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Murphy.
BECKETT, Samuel.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /An interesting association copy. An interesting association copy of the first American edition of Murphy by Samuel Beckett, with the contemporary g...
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Eh Joe
BECKETT, Samuel.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00| /The principal work in this volume was a monologue written for the great Jack MacGowran and produced in 1966 by the BBC. Also includes Film, Becket...
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The Lost Ones.
BECKETT, Samuel.Original price £1,150.00 - Original price £1,150.00Original price £0.00£1,150.00£1,150.00 - £1,150.00Current price £1,150.00| /One of 100 copies - signed by the author. First edition in English, number 15 of 100 specially bound copies signed by the author; 8vo; publisher's ...
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All That Fall.
BECKETT, Samuel.Original price £60.00 - Original price £60.00Original price £60.00£60.00£60.00 - £60.00Current price £60.00| /First British edition, 8vo; original pictorial wrappers with design by Peter Snow, spine slightly sunned and rubbed with small split, but overall ...
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Eh Joe
BECKETT, Samuel.Original price £70.00 - Original price £70.00Original price £70.00£70.00£70.00 - £70.00Current price £70.00| /Includes Film, Beckett's somewhat divisive foraying into writing for the silver screen, made into a film starring Buster Keaton in 1965.First edit...
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Imagination Dead Imagine.
BECKETT, Samuel.Original price £1,300.00 - Original price £1,300.00Original price £1,300.00£1,300.00£1,300.00 - £1,300.00Current price £1,300.00| /One of 100 copies - signed by the author. A short prose text, first published in French in Les Lettres Nouvelles the same year, it evolved from the...
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