Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates
Paris: Europa Press, 1935.
First edition, the first copy of the limited issue, #I of 25 copies printed on Normandy vellum and signed by Samuel Beckett. Unpaginated (36 pp.). Bound in publisher's fawn French wraps lettered in black. Near Fine with nearly imperceptible glue repair to binding, light toning to wraps and contents, faint foxing to upper edge of textblock, and trivial thumbing.
The standalone limited issue of Beckett's short story, written in 1933 at the request of his publisher Chatto and Windus and then rejected by the editor for being too nightmarish. Europa Press published the story in a run of 327 copies, of which 25 were signed by Beckett in an upright hand that contrasts markedly with the flattened signature of later years.
Price: $12,500