More Pricks Than Kicks. London: Calder & Boyars, 1970. First Edition, Limited Issue. Quarter cream calf, rust cloth boards. Titles to upper board and spine in gilt. Housed in publisher’s slipcase. A fine bright copy.

One of 100 numbered copies, Signed by Samuel Beckett.

This was Beckett’s first published book of fiction in 1934; here published for the first time in limited edition form.

More Pricks Than Kicks is a collection of ten interconnected short stories tracing the life and death of its anti-hero, Belacqua Shuah. The themes are quintessentially early Beckett, steeped in the Dublin of Beckett’s youth, offering a savage, often hilarious satire of its literary circles, bourgeois society, and intellectual pretensions.