[Rarebooks] FS: Publisher Barney Rosset's Copy of the SIGNED Limited First Edition of Samuel Beckett's MURPHY, 1/100

[Charles Agvent]

BECKETT, Samuel. MURPHY [Publisher's Copy]. New York: Grove Press, 
[1957]. First American Edition in cloth-backed boards 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. (#014825)        $5,000.00

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