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Beckett, Ill Seen: Ill Said, Barney Rosset's copy

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Title: Ill Seen: Ill Said
Author: Beckett, Samuel
Description: 8x6, ¼ navy morocco & marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. Special Presentation Copy, this copy designated for Barney Rosset; designed and printed by Henry Morris; bound by Bela Blau. Limited First Edition.Signed by Beckett on the half-title page. Printed "Barney Rosset's copy" in the colophon. Rosset (b.1922) was the owner of Grove Press (during 1950's-70's) and he is perhaps best known as the American publisher of the controversial and sexually charged novel Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller. Rosset introduced Americans to writers such as Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Eugène Ionesco, Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, and Kenzaburo Oe.
Heading: Place Published: Northridge, CA
Publisher: Lord John Press
Date Published: 1982