L'Innommable

Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1953. First edition, ordinary paper copy, one of 3000 printed. Original wrappers, covers spotted, text paper browned as always, unopened. The third novel of Beckett's trilogy. Inscribed "for Austryn Wainhouse / cordially / Sam Beckett / Paris July 1953". A good association. Wainhouse had worked for Olympia Press and was one of the editors of Merlin, publishers of Beckett's "Watt". He was best-known as a translator (of Sade, Bataille, de Beauvoir, etc) and won a National Book Award for translation in 1971.