Beckett, Samuel

Come and Go. Dramaticule. Calder and Boyars, 1967, first edition, no. 55 of 100 signed copies, illustrated with photographs from the Berlin production, original buckram gilt, publisher's slipcase, [Federman and Fletcher 46 (deluxe issue)]; No's Knife. Collected Shorter Prose 1945-1966. Calder and Boyars, 1967, first edition of this collection, no. 80 of 100 numbered copies in the 'A' series signed by Beckett,  original light calf gilt, all edges gilt, publisher's slipcase, [Federman and Fletcher 386.101]--Beckett, Samuel, transl. Apollinaire, Guillaume. Zone. Dublin and London: the Dolmen Press and Calder and Boyars, 1972, first edition of this translation, trade issue, French and English, warmly inscribed by Beckett to William Targ, original cloth, dust-jacket; 8vo or 4to (3)

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Beckett wrote the short play Come and Go in English in 1965 while receiving treatment for what turned out to be a benign tumour in the roof of his mouth. Three women comment on their illnesses or imminent deaths. "When directed like a subtle piece of delicate chamber music and hauntingly choreographed and acted, this little play has a start visual beauty that make it as compelling as anything that Beckett wrote" (James Knowlson, Damned to Fame. The Life of Samuel Beckett).