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No's Knife: Collected Shorter Prose, 1945-1966
by Beckett, Samuel (signed, Limited edition)
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- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
London; (1967): Calder & Boyars. First Edition. Octavo. 168 pages. limited to 100 signed copies, the present copy is B-30 signed by the author. These pieces were ignored by critics of the era but now are considered distillations of his major thinking. For example, Ping existence of two very different kinds of literary politics. "Ping" is one of Beckett's "residua" texts from No's Knife, in this collection we have much on the battle between postmodern exhaustion and modernist epiphany. Bound in 1/4 pale green buckram lettered in gilt, backed in white calf lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, near fine in near fine publisher's cloth covered slipcase. Very nice.
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- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028871
- Title
- No's Knife: Collected Shorter Prose, 1945-1966
- Author
- Beckett, Samuel (signed, Limited edition)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Calder & Boyars
- Place of Publication
- London; (1967)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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- Calf
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- Buckram
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- Octavo
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