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Signed limited edition, number 221 of 299 copies signed by the author on the half-title; originally published as Mal vu mal dit (Paris, 1981) and in Beckett's English translation by Grove Press (New York, 1981). Not in Federman & Fletcher. Octavo. Original blue quarter calf, spine lettered in gilt, marbled paper sides, untrimmed. Title page printed in blue and black, opening sentences printed in blue. Spine faintly sunned, tiny scuffs to tips, a near-fine copy.

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.