New Durham

Consett [County Durham]: Ramsden Williams Publications, [June 1965].

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Softcover. Magazine. Cover by Elizabeth Mew. Small quarto. 24pp. Stapled stiff glossy wraps. Wear along the spine, bumping at the spine end, and some light rubbing to the rear wrap, about near fine. A literary journal published by Durham University with the first appearance of Samuel Beckett's "Jem Higgins' Love-Letter to the Alba," an excerpt from his first novel, *Dream of Fair to Middling Women*, published posthumously in 1992. *Federman and Fletcher* 43. With additional contributions from Christopher Ramsden, John Fletcher, Jon Silkin, Ken Smith, W. Price Turner, J. Roger Little, and Peter Jackson. Seven copies in *OCLC*.

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Item #379547 New Durham. Samuel BECKETT, J. Roger Little, W. Price Turner, Ken Smith, Jon Silkin, John Fletcher, Christopher Ramsden, Peter Jackson.
New Durham
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Samuel Beckett
birth name: Samuel Beckett
born: 4/13/1906
died: 12/22/1989
nationality: Ireland

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Author, critic, and playwright who in 1969 won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He wrote in both French and English and is perhaps best known for his preoccupation with essential issues of the human condition--existence and communication.more

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