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Signed limited first edition of the author's own translation of his short novel. ILL SEEN ILL SAID is a spare stream-of-consciousness portrait of a solitary old woman, first published in French as MAL VU MAL DIT in 1981 and later collected with two other short pieces in NOHOW ON. Handsomely bound, a nearly untouched copy. 8'' x 6''. Original marbled blue boards with gilt-lettered blue leather spine. 46, [3] pages. Edition of 299 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies; this copy no. 81. Designed and printed by Henry Morris for the Lord John Press on mouldmade Bugrabutten paper. Binding by Bela Blau. Signed by Beckett on half-title page. Minimal edgewear.

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.