More Pricks Than Kicks
Chatto & Windus, 1934.
First edition. Original tan cloth with blue titles to the spine in very rare dustwrapper. Author's presentation copy, inscribed to his cousin, Molly Roe on the title page, "For Molly, with kind love 40 years later! from Sam" A near fine copy with just a bit of wear to the particularly susceptible spine lettering, in a good only dustwrapper, which shows some minor chipping to the top of the spine, a couple of internal closed tears to the spine and a little internal loss to the front fore edge.
Beckett's first work of prose fiction, essentially extracts from his nascent novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, written a few years earlier when Beckett was living in Paris, but never published in his lifetime. It contains ten linked stories about a young Dublin intellectual.
The recipient of this presentation copy, Molly (or Mollie) Roe, was Beckett's first cousin, to whom the author was very close in childhood, and with whom he remained in contact throughout his life. Following the death of their mother Rubina in 1913 Sheila and Molly Roe were sent to the boarding school in Dublin known locally as "Miss Wade's" and with their father away in Africa the two cousins spent many school holidays at the Beckett house at Cooldrinagh. The cousins and their mother seem to have been the inspiration, at least in part, for the three characters in Come and Go (1965).
Of 1500 copies printed only 500 were sold, making the book rare in any state, only a handful of which will have survived in dustwrapper.
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