Echo’s Bones and Other Precipitates

Paris: Europa Press, 1935. First edition. [38] pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers. Some minor creasing to covers, else fine. One of 300 copies on Alfa, of a total edition of 327 copies, this copy unnumbered. Inscribed by Beckett on the half-title, “‘Echo’s Bones were turned to stone’ Ovid Met. 3 --- for Alain and Norma Bosquet in friendship Sam Beckett Paris August 1956” Beckett retained copies of the book for decades as it had sold very poorly, and gave some out as gifts to friends. Beckett translated several of Bosquet’s poems. A rather uncharacteristically warm inscription. Federman & Fletcher 22.