BECKETT, Samuel Sans. (Paris) Éditions de Minuit (1969) Pet. in-8°. Br. with white cover (min. russeting on lower cover). First edition. Edition of 742 copies on B.F.K. de Rives vellum, of which 100 are on paper. One of these (H.C. XLVIII). Autogr. letter signed to Kay Boyle "for Kay with love from Sam Paris febr. 70". Prov. Kay Boyle (1902-1992), American novelist, short story writer, poet and political activist who lived in Paris between 1923 and 1941; she met there a.o. Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Hart Crane and Samuel Beckett (consignment and aut. note).

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