Lessness. London: Calder & Boyers, 1970. First Edition, Limited Issue. Quarter velum green cloth boards, title lettered in gilt along spine, housed in publisher’s cloth slipcase. Light toning along spine, otherwise fine bright copy.

Limited Edition of 100 Numbered Copies, Signed by the Author.

Lessness is a prose piece by Samuel Beckett in which he used random permutation to order sentences & is regarded as one of the most enigmatic texts of the twentieth century. Like interactive artworks, the piece is experienced as a process that depends upon the participant’s attempts to comprehend and create meaning. Although Lessness is linear prose, its orderly disorder sets up a non-linear reading process in which contradictory perspectives are viewed simultaneously.