Limited to 550 Copies Signed by Beckett and Ryman

BECKETT, Samuel. RYMAN, Robert; LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB.

Nohow On [LEC]. With Etchings by Robert Ryman.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1989.

LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. RYMAN, Robert, [artist]. Nohow On [LEC]. With Etchings by Robert Ryman New York: Limited Editions Club, 1989.

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BECKETT, Samuel. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. RYMAN, Robert, [artist]. Nohow On [LEC]. With Etchings by Robert Ryman New York: Limited Editions Club, 1989.

Limited to 550 copies, signed by Beckett and the artist Ryman on limitation page. This being number 37. Quarto (10 5/8 x 7 1/4 inches; 269 x 185 mm). With 6 aquatints by Ryman on Arches and handmade Japanese paper. Samuel Beckett designed a new typeface for the text.

Publisher's original full black goatskin. Front board and spine lettered in gilt. Housed in a black cloth clamshell lined in gred ultrasuede. Box with morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. A fine copy.

"Beckett wrote this series of short, intense novels in the late 1970's. Company is about old age, about childhood, young love and parental memories. Ultimately, the narrator realizes that all the voices are his own invention, created to keep him company. Ill Seen Ill Said concerns an old woman living in a ghostly cabin who can sometimes be seen, sometimes not. The God of Genesis is very much involved. Worstword Ho is Beckett's modern equivalent of The Tempest. He literally becomes Prospero--or God-- bringing life into being. Nohow On-- the title for the trilogy- is paradoxical. "Nohow" is the situation all of us confront every day. "On" suggests hope. In any event, we must go "on." Robert Ryman's six aquatints, firmly anchored in Beckett's text, invite the viewer to find something profound in seeming nothingness. By being able to discern anything, even the most delicate "white space next" to another, we are able to discover something." (From the publisher).

LEC Bibliography.

HBS 69338.

$2,000.

Price: $2,000.00

Item #69338