BECKETT, Samuel.

£1,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

How It Is. First UK edition, out of series from a limitation of 200 copies printed on handmade paper and signed by the author; this is one of 100 "Series A" copies bound in full vellum. Written without punctuation of any form, this is widely considered Beckett's darkest and most difficult novel, in which the solitary narrator worms their way through mud, dwelling in recollections and reminiscences, briefly forming a couple "with Pim", and finally returning to solitude, this time motionless.Despite the limitation stating that the signed issues were printed in advance of the trade issue, they were, according to Federman & Fletcher, issued shortly after. The work was first published in French as Comment c'est in 1961; Beckett's English translation first appeared in the US in early 1964. There were also 100 copies of this limitation issued bound in full morocco as "Series B".

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