Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of Echo’s Bones by Samuel Beckett. First Grove Press Edition stated, 2014 Grove Press. First Printing with complete number line.
The exterior of the book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on a straight spine. Also with, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with an erased price on the second free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The dust jacket is in Very Good condition with mild surface wear and heavy edge wear and creases on the back. First state jacket with $22 price on the front flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
In 1933, Chatto & Windus agreed to publish Samuel Beckett’s More Pricks Than Kicks, a collection of ten interrelated storieshis first published work of fiction. At his editor’s request, Beckett penned an additional story, “Echo’s Bones”, to serve as the final piece. However, he’d already killed off several of the characters including the protagonist, Belacqua, and had to resurrect them from the dead. The story was politely rejected by his editor, as it was considered too imaginatively playful, too allusive, and too undisciplinedqualities now recognized as quintessentially Beckett.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
