Malone Dies. A Novel Translated From the French by the Author. London: Calder and Boyars, 1958. First UK Edition. Pp, 120. Black cloth boards, title lettered in gilt to spine, in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. Jacket lightly worn, otherwise a good copy.

Beckett’s second novel first published in French and regarded as a contemporary classic worthy to stand beside that of Proust, Gide and Joyce.