[Rarebooks] FS: Samuel Beckett: MURPHY, 1/100 SIGNED, this publisher Barney Rosset's own signed copy

[Charles Agvent]

BECKETT, Samuel. MURPHY [Publisher's Copy]. New York: Grove Press, 
[1957]. First Edition. First American Edition of his first published 
novel, first published in England in 1938. Copy #22 of only 100 numbered 
copies SIGNED by the author and specially bound in gilt-stamped brown 
cloth and tan boards. Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset's copy with 
the following in his hand on the front endpaper: "publisher's 
copy/Barney Rosset - GROVE PRESS." Rosset introduced American readers to 
numerous significant writers, including Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, 
and Stoppard. He led a successful legal battle to publish the uncensored 
version of D. H. Lawrence's novel LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER, and later was 
the American publisher of Henry Miller's controversial novel TROPIC OF 
CANCER. The right to publish and distribute Miller's novel in the United 
States was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1964, 
in a landmark ruling for free speech and the First Amendment. Near Fine 
without dustwrapper, as issued.         $5,000.00

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