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Beckett, Samuel. Nouvelles et Textes pour rien. Paris: les Editions de Minuit, 1958
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8vo, second edition, one of 2,000 numbered copies with six illustrations by Avigdor Arikha, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY BECKETT TO HIS CLOSE FRIENDS HENRI AND JOSETTE HAYDEN (``Pour Henri et Josette leur ami bien affecteuses, Sam...1962'') original printed wrappers, some minor foxing This lot contains 1 item(s).
Catalogue Note
The first edition, without the illustrations by Avigdor Arikha, appeared in 1955. The line drawings by Arikkha illustrate not just this text but other works such as Waiting for Godot, Molly, and Malone Dies.
The author maintained an intimate association over the course of several decades with the Polish emigré painter Henri Hayden and his much younger wife Josette. He had first met them in Roussillon d'Apt (a village in the Vaucluse) in Vichy France during the difficult war years when Beckett was working for the French resistance. Like Beckett and his wife Suzanne Henri and Josette had come here to find refuge from the German Gestapo. In the post-war years Beckett was a keen champion of Hayden's work.
References: Federman & Fletcher 63.1
The author maintained an intimate association over the course of several decades with the Polish emigré painter Henri Hayden and his much younger wife Josette. He had first met them in Roussillon d'Apt (a village in the Vaucluse) in Vichy France during the difficult war years when Beckett was working for the French resistance. Like Beckett and his wife Suzanne Henri and Josette had come here to find refuge from the German Gestapo. In the post-war years Beckett was a keen champion of Hayden's work.
References: Federman & Fletcher 63.1