signed first edition Hardcover
1957 · New York
by BECKETT, Samuel
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1957. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Slim octavo. 59pp. A bit of faint offsetting on the rear endpapers else fine in a fine dust jacket with the spine lettering faintly sunned. Briefly Inscribed by Beckett on the title page: "For Dan Pope from Samuel Beckett." The title page is additionally Signed by Grove Press publisher Barney Rossett. It is hard to overestimate the importance of Rosset in promoting the publication of important out-of-the-mainstream literature, especially in the careers of Beckett, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsburg.
(Inventory #: 469480)