Ill Seen Ill Said.: Translated from the French by the author.
by BECKETT, Samuel
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About This Item
Northridge, California: Lord John Press,, 1982. Things and imaginings Signed limited edition, number 221 of 299 copies signed by the author on the half-title; originally published as Mal vu mal dit (Paris, 1981) and in Beckett's English translation by Grove Press (New York, 1981). Octavo. Original blue quarter calf, spine lettered in gilt, marbled paper sides, untrimmed. Title page printed in blue and black, opening sentences printed in blue. Spine faintly sunned, tiny scuffs to tips, a near-fine copy. Not in Federman & Fletcher.
Synopsis
Ill Seen Ill Said is a short novel by Samuel Beckett. It was first published in French as Mal vu mal dit in 1981, and was then translated in English by the author in 1982. Together with Company and Worstward Ho, it was collected in the volume Nohow On in 1989.
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- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 161934
- Title
- Ill Seen Ill Said.
- Author
- BECKETT, Samuel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Place of Publication
- Northridge, California: Lord John Press,
- Date Published
- 1982
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