BECKETT, Samuel.

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Drunken Boat. First edition, number 87 of 100 copies signed by Beckett and specially bound, with the publisher's compliments slip loosely inserted.Beckett's translation of Rimbaud's poem appears here for the first time, though it was written more than 40 years earlier. He undertook the translation at the suggestion of Edward Titus, the editor of This Quarter, a French literary magazine, but it was never published. Beckett's translation is printed in parallel with Rimbaud's original in French, and the edition includes a facsimile of Beckett's charred fair copy of the typescript, which narrowly survived a house fire.

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