Paris

First edition on ordinary paper.

Precious copy inscribed by Samuel Beckett to his friend the painter Geer (Van Velde) and his wife Lise.
Small holes on the first cover.

“What to say of the sliding planes, the shimmering contours, the cut-out figures in the fog, the balance that any little thing can break, breaking and re-forming themselves under our very eyes? How to talk about the colors that breathe and pant? Of the swarming stasis? Of this world without weight, without force, without shadow? Here everything moves, swims, fells, comes back, falls apart, re-forms. Everything stops, non-stop. One would say it’s the revolt of the internal molecules of a...

First edition, of which there were no large paper copies.
Contemporary half red shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt.
A little spotting.
A rare copy in its contemporary binding.