How It Is. London: John Calder, 1964. First Edition, Limited Issue. Pp, 160, uncut, top edge gilt. Vellum boards, title in gilt to spine, printed on handmade paper housed in publisher’s slipcase. A fine bright copy.

Series A (Hors Commerce), bound in vellum. One of 100 numbered copies, Signed by Beckett.

This special limited edition was issued in advance of the first trade edition.

Beckett’s sixth novel first published in French as Comment c’est by Les Editions de Minuit in 1961.