Скачать или смотреть Samuel Beckett, More Pricks than Kicks, first edition.

Adam Blakeney inspects a first edition of the first published book of fiction by Samuel Beckett.

This is certainly Beckett’s scarcest regularly published book. With the author’s signed presentation inscription to the title page, “to Molly with much love 40 years later from Sam”.

And with the recipient Mollie Roe’s pencil ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Molly (or Mollie) Roe was Beckett’s first cousin with whom he had been particularly close from early childhood. They remained in contact throughout their lives as evidenced by this inscription which would appear to date from the mid 1970s.

Copies of the first edition of More Pricks than Kicks are of considerable scarcity in collectable condition; examples in dust jacket are rare. We know of a tiny handful of which only one other would seem to be inscribed.

More information about this edition can be found on the website here:

http://www.peterharrington.co.uk/rare...

While the rest of our shelves have been catalogued in their entirety here:

http://www.peterharrington.co.uk/rare...