NMLP P-039583 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

Watt

Samuel Beckett · Olympia Press, Collection Merlin (Paris) · 1953

No book-club edition is documented. The standing trap is that both later editions are commonly catalogued as firsts of a kind: Grove 1959 is the first trade edition and Calder 1963 is the first UK edition, and each is "first thus" only. Because Olympia wrappers are described in more than one colour, a wrapper that does not match a given dealer photograph is not by itself evidence of a later state — but any copy lacking the limitation leaf and the 31 August 1953 Imprimerie Richard colophon should be treated as a later printing or edition until proven otherwise.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-039583 for "Watt" by Samuel Beckett (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-039583, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).