London: John Calder, 1962. First UK edition. 208pp. Black textured-paper boards; silver spine titles; dust jacket. Top corners light bumped; mild offsetting to endpapers. Very good in a very good jacket, unclipped, moderately rubbed and edgeworn, with small chip at head of front panel.
First UK and first hardcover edition of the Canadian scholar Hugh Kenner's artful and penetrating literary study, which according to his preface is "meant not to explain Samuel Beckett's work but to help the reader think about it." This hardcover issue somewhat uncommon, particularly in such presentable condition.
