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Malone Dies
by BECKETT, Samuel
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grove Press, 1956. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition and first edition in English, hardcover issue. Translated from the French by the author. Octavo. 120pp. Tan cloth. Spine a little toned, very good or better in very good publisher's acetate dust jacket with the original printed price on the front flap of jacket, and with a tear on the rear panel and a few small chips at the extremities. Limited to 500 numbered copies. This is copy number 166. Inscribed by Beckett on the title page: "for Dan Pope from Sam Beckett." Additionally Signed by Barney Rosset, publisher of Grove Press. An increasingly scarce title in the limited issue, in original acetate dust jacket, and especially uncommon when signed by Beckett.
Synopsis
Malone Dies is a novel by Samuel Beckett. It was first published in 1951, in French, as Malone Meurt, and later translated into English by the author. The second novel in Beckett's "Trilogy", it can be described as the space between wholeness and disintegration, action and total inertia.
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- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 499340
- Title
- Malone Dies
- Author
- BECKETT, Samuel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- IrishLiterature, NobelLaureate
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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