first edition Hardcover
2016 · Cambridge, UK
by Beckett, Samuel; Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Lois More Overbeck, and George Craig (Editors)
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Volume 1 is a later printing, volumes 2-4 are first printings. Hardcover. Near fine/very good +. 781; 791; 771; 838pp. Wide octavo [23 cm] Black cloth-effect paper over boards. In dust jackets, with only minor wear to the surfaces. In a slipcase with rubbing, and light edge wear (still very good). May require extra postage due to weight. Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. From the dust jacket- "The Cambridge University Press edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett offers for the first time a comprehensive range of letters of one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. Selected for their bearing on his work from over 15,000 extant letters, the letters published in this four-volume edition encompass sixty years of Beckett's writing life (1929-1989), and include letters to friends, painters and musicians, as well as to students, publishers, translators, and colleagues in the world of literature and theatre." (Inventory #: 52559)