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Limited Edition. Hardcover. "This late work from Samuel Beckett is the haunting picture of an old woman alone in a cabin, who watches the evening and the morning star and ventures out chiefly to visit a grave. In prose of great poetic beauty, which the author translated from his original French text Mal vu mal dit in 1982, Beckett returns to the imagery of the Old and New Testaments to speculate on the great questions of human existence. " Tight, bright, and unmarred; fine. Original half navy morocco fore-edge binding by David Bourbeau, with blue paste paper covered boards, two vertical dotted gilt rolls to each of the covers, and spine lettered in gilt. The present volume was designed and printed by Henry Morris. The text was set in Bembo type, with paragraph openings printed in blue, on Bugrabutten moulded paper. [viii], 9-45, [i + colophon] pp. Letter DK of 26 specially-bound copies, from a total edition of 325 copies. Signed by binder.

Mal Vu Mal Dit, translated as Ill Seen Ill Said, is a novel by Samuel Beckett, first published in French by Les Éditions de Minuit in 1981. The book combines Beckett's sparse and poetic style with a narrative that exists between the realms of the visible and the invisible, playing with the ineffable qualities of experience and memory.