BECKETT, Samuel. Watt. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit. 1968.
8vo. Original white wrappers, title lettered to spine and front cover in black, with a glassine wrapper, housed in a black morocco-backed black cloth solander box, titles to red label on spine; pp. [4], 7-268, several pages unopened, near fine.
First French edition, number 63 of 92 copies printed on Bouffant and reserved for La Librarie des Editions Minuit.
Although it remained unpublished until 1953, Watt, Beckett’s second published novel, was written a decade earlier in the South of France while in hiding from German occupying forces during WWII (having done significant work as part of the French Resistance). One of the strangest, and funniest, works of the twentieth century.
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