Various — Beckett at Sixty: A Festschrift

London, Calder and Boyars, 1967. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated collection of writings published in honour of Irish writer Samuel Beckett. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and four plates. Collated complete. A collection of essays and writings published in honour of Samuel Barclay Beckett, an Irish-born writer of novels, plays, short stories and poems. He is considered one of the last modernist writers, and a key figure in "the Theatre of the Absurd". With contributions from A. J. Leventhal, Jack MacGowran, Harold Hobson, Madeleine Renaud, Harold Pinter, Mary Hutchinson, Alan Simpson, Jocelyn Herbert, and many others. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor fading. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also very smart with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Light spotting to the panels with minor sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine/Very Good.