How It Is [Signed] [original title: Comment c'est]

London: John Calder, 1964. Very Good/Very Good. London: John Calder, 1964. First UK Edition. Signed by Samuel Beckett without inscription at title page. Octavo; illustrated dust jacket; gray cloth boards stamped in gilt; 160pp. Mild rubbing and spotting to unclipped dust jacket. Boards show light shelfwear and corners bumped; binding sound; smudge to front free endpaper, else unmarked. A Very Good and sound copy of Beckett's stylistically and structurally challenging 'novel' which the author called his "most difficult ever."

Carlton Lake, "No Symbols Where None Intended." University of Texas at Austin, 1984; no. 286.