Accession number
PML 127065
Creator
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.
Published
Paris : Hours Press, 1930.
Credit line
Purchase; Acquisitions Fund, 1990.
Notes
Cover title.
First edition.
No. 187 of 300 numbered copies.
With the original printed wrap-around slip (cf. R. Federman. Samuel Beckett, 1970, no. 5).
Label reads: "This poem was awarded the £10 prize for the best poem on time in the competition judged by Richard Aldington and Nancy Cunard at the Hours press, and is published in an edition of 100 signed copies at 5 s. and 200 unsigned at 1 s. This is also Mr. Samuel Beckett's first separately published work."
First edition.
No. 187 of 300 numbered copies.
With the original printed wrap-around slip (cf. R. Federman. Samuel Beckett, 1970, no. 5).
Label reads: "This poem was awarded the £10 prize for the best poem on time in the competition judged by Richard Aldington and Nancy Cunard at the Hours press, and is published in an edition of 100 signed copies at 5 s. and 200 unsigned at 1 s. This is also Mr. Samuel Beckett's first separately published work."
Description
[2], 4, [2] p. ; 25 cm.
Provenance
The Henry Bradley Martin copy.
Classification
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