[BECKETT, Samuel]. KNOWLSON, James. Samuel Beckett: An Exhibition. Held at Reading University Library, May to July 1971.

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[BECKETT, Samuel]. KNOWLSON, James. Samuel Beckett: An Exhibition. Held at Reading University Library, May to July 1971. London: Turret Books. 1971. 8vo. Original black cloth; silver lettering on spine; upper edge gilt; grey endpapers; black and white photographs between p. 30 and p. 31; pp. [14], 13-123, [3]; slight scuffing to head and foot of spine, else near fine. First edition, number 6 of 100 copies, inscribed by Beckett to Edward Lucie Smith, Jamaican born English writer and art critic. This catalogue was written by James Knowlson for an exhibition held at Reading University Library from May-July 1971. With a foreword by A.J. Leventhal. "The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh" ( Waiting for Godot , 1953). SKU: 2120135

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