Krapp's Last Tape. Translated into Hebrew by Helit Yeshurun. Portrait of Beckett and Moshe Spitzer by Avigdor Arikha

AUCTION 17 | Tuesday, November 12th, 2002 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic and Ceremonial Art From Various Owners

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Lot 68

Beckett, Samuel

Krapp's Last Tape. Translated into Hebrew by Helit Yeshurun. Portrait of Beckett and Moshe Spitzer by Avigdor Arikha

ONE OF 96 NUMBERED COPIES (of an edition of 330) with an additional numbered etching of the Beckett portrait laid in Printed wrappers. Thin 8vo

Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Press 1983

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $150

The very last book designed by Moshe Spitzer (1900-82), one of the 20th century’s most outstanding and creative publishers of Hebrew books. See L. Avrin, The Art of the Hebrew Book in the Twentieth Century, in: New York Public Library Catalogue, A Sign and a Witness (1988) pp.134-6