Apr 11, 2024 - Sale 2665

Sale 2665 - Lot 186

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989)
Echo's Bones.

Paris: Europa Press, 1935.

Deluxe limited first edition, small quarto, copy number 249 of 250 printed on alfa paper; bound in original publisher's printed wrappers; minor creases, tiny open corner tear to one leaf; offsetting to front panel; 8 7/8 x 6 1/2 in.

Beckett's first collection of poetry, published after the initial version was rejected as the final chapter to More Pricks Than Kicks in 1933, prompting Beckett to revisit Echo's Bones, and turn it into a poem.