Raymond Federman's Private Collection of Samuel Beckett

VARIOUS ISSUES OF MAGAZINES
IN WHICH WORKS BY SAMUEL BECKETT APPEARED


1. EVERGREEN REVIEW -- issues selected from complete set in Raymond Federman's library in which works by Samuel Beckett appeared. [Fourteen issues in excellent condition].
a) Vol. 1, no. 3, 1957.
Contains opening pages From an Abandoned Work.
b) Vol. 2, no. 5, 1958.
Contains complete text of Crap's Last Tape.
c) Vol. 3, no. 9, Summer 1959.
Contains Text For Nothing I (translated by the author).
d) Vol. 3, no. 10, November-December 1959.
Contains complete text of radio play Embers.
e) Vol. 4, no. 14, September-October 1960.
Contains From an Unabandoned work (translated by the author). [Opening pages of How It Is].
f) Vol. 4, no. 15, November-December 1960.
Contains The End (translated by Richard Seaver in collaboration with the author).
g) Vol. 6, no. 22, January-February 1962.
Contains The End (translated by Richard Seaver in collaboration with the author).
h) Vol. 6, no. 27, November-December 1962.
Contains the complete text Words and Music (written for the BBC, with music by John Beckett).
I) Vol. 8, no. 34, December 1964. [New large format].
Contains complete text of Play.
j) Vol. 10, no. 39, February 1966. [New large format]. Contains complete text of Imagination Dead Imagine.
k) Vol. 11, no. 47, June 1967. [New large format].
Contains The Calmative (translated by the author).
l) Vol. 13, no. 62, January 1969. [New large format]. Contains complete text of television play Eh Joe.
m) Vol. 14, no. 80, July 1970. [New large format].
Contains complete text of Lessness (translated by the author).
n) No. 98, 1984. [No volume # -- new issue, new format].
Contains complete texts of Three Plays: Ohio Impromptu/ Catastrophe/ What Where.
2. MINUIT (Revue P‚riodique, published by Les ditions de Minuit). [Seven issues in excellent condition].
a) No. 1, Novembre 1972.
Contains complete texte of Foirade [dated "Ann‚es 50"].
b) No. 2, Janvier 1973.
Contains complete texts of Foirades II et III [dated "Ann‚es 50].
c) No. 4, Mai 1973.
Contains complete texts of Foirades IV et V [dated "Ann‚es 50/60"].
d) No. 5, Septembre 1973.
Contains Esquisse Radiophonique [dated "vers 62-63?]
e) No. 8, Mars 1974.
Contains Fragment de Th‚ƒtre [dated "Ann‚es 60"].
f) No. 12, Janvier 1975.
Contains complete text of play Pas Moi (French version by the author).
g) No. 16, Novembre 1975.
Contains Pochade Radiophonique [dated "Ann‚es 60].
3. LES CAHIERS DU CHEMIN (Published by Les ditions Gallimard)
No. 12, Avril 1971.
Contains the complete text of the "intermŠde" Souffle. [Excellent condition].
4. LES LETTRES NOUVELLES (Published by Les ditions de N”el) [Three issues in good condition].
a) PremiŠre ann‚e, no. 3, Mai 1953.
Contains Trois Textes Pour Rien.
b) DouziŠme ann‚e, Nouvelle S‚rie, Juin-Juillet-Ao–t 1964.
Contains complete text of play Com‚die (translated by the author).
c) TreiziŠme ann‚e, Octobre-Novembre 1965.
Contains complete text of Imagination Morte Imaginez.
5. SPECTRUM [Two issues -- fair condition. One issue published by Santa Barbara college, the other by the University of California at Santa Barbara].
a) Vol. 2, no. 1, Winter l958.
Contains "first publication in English" of the opening pages of The Unnamable (translated by the author).
b) Vol. 4, no. 1, Winter l960.
Contains "Mercier and Camier -- Two excerpts" (Translated by Hugh Kenner and Raymond Federman), "first appearance of any of it in any form" from the then unpublished novel Mercier et Camier.
6. STAND: A Quarterly Review of Literature and the Arts (Published in London, England). [Excellent condition].
Vol. 5, no. 1, undated.
Contains Four Poems under the title "Dieppe" (French versions and English translations by the author).
6. TRACE (Published in London, England) [Excellent condition].
No. 42, Summer 1961.
Contains "Waiting for Beckett" -- an interview with Samuel Beckett by Gabriel d'AubarŠde (translated by Christopher Waters). [A note indicates that the original interview in French was published in Les Nouvelles Litt‚raires of February 16, 1961].
7. NEW DURHAM (Published by Ramsden Williams Publications, Consett) [Excellent condition].
Unnumbered/Undated. [Handwritten dates given as "June, 1965" by John Fletcher who dedicates this issue to Raymond Federman.
Contains "Jem Higgins' Love-Letter to the Alba" -- [Note states: "This excerpt from his unpublished novel Dream of Fair to Middling Women (c. 1932) is printed her for the first time by kind permission of Samuel Beckett, Copyright, Samuel Beckett, 1965].
8. ART (Hebdomadaire Complet de la Vie Cutlruelle; Suppl‚ment Loisirs) [Poor condition].
No. 15, 5-11 Janvier 1966.
Contains the complete text of Dis Joe (translated by the author).
9. ENCOUNTER (Published in London, England)
Vol. 28, no. 2, February 1967.
Contains the complete text of Ping (translated by the author). [Excellent condition].
10. LA QUINZAINE LITTRAIRE (Published in Paris, France)
No. 82, 1-15 Novembre 1969.
Contains the complete text of Sans. [Good condition].
11. THE IOWA REVIEW (Published by the University of Iowa)
Vol. 4, no. 3, Summer 1973.
Contains "In the Train with Mr. Madden" -- excerpt from Mercier et Camier (translated by the author). [Excellent condition].
12. THE PARTISAN REVIEW (Published by Rutgers University)
Vol. 41, no. 3, 1974.
Contains excerpts from Mercier and Camier (translated by the author). [Excellent condition].
13. LITERATURA NA SWIECIE (Polish periodical published in Warsaw)
Vol. 49, no. 5 , 1975 & Vol. 120, no. 4, 1981.
Two issues entirely devoted to Beckett. Contains several Beckett texts translated into Polish. [Good condition].
14. JOURNAL OF BECKETT STUDIES
Seven issues [all in excellent condition].
No. 1, Winter 1976. Contains the complete text of the television play Ghost Trio.
No. 2, Summer 1977. Contains a poem by Samuel Beckett, In Memoriam: George Reavey, dated 5 February, 1977.
No. 9, 1983. Contains "photographic record of recent Beckett productions."
Vol. 1, nos. 1-2, 1992 [new series]. Contains two poems by Samuel Beckett, L… and Brief Dream, both dated 1987.
Vol. 2 , no. 1, 1992 [new series]. Contains revised text of What Where.

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