Samuel Beckett's Malone meurt [Malone Dies]
First edition, a fine copy in original wrappers

"I could die today, if I wished, merely by making a little effort, if I could wish, if I could make an effort."

BECKETT, Samuel. Malone meurt. (Paris): Les Editions de Minuit, (1951). Small octavo, original wrappers; glassine. $500. 

First edition of the second novel of Beckett's great trilogy (with Molloy and The Unnamable). "In the trilogy, Beckett is creating his own death in prose, quarrying right down to that subterranean country of his heart... What remains is a terminal vision, a terminal style and, from the point of view of possible development, a work at least as aesthetically terminal as Finnegans Wake" (A. Alvarez). Slight toning to spine and edges; a fine copy.