Watt

Paris : The Olympia Pres, 1958.

First edition in hardback, second overall, of Beckett's second published novel in English, written in the south of France during the Occupation. Publisher's pale green flecked cloth boards with black, gold rimmed title labels to spine and front board. With the excellent and unclipped dust-jacket, spine of which is slightly faded and rubbed at the top edge. Bright red endpapers. Text clean and fresh. without old inscriptions etc. A VG+ copy. It was originally issued by Olympia in 1953 as a paperback in the familiar olive green covers.