NMLP P-041994 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates

Samuel Beckett · Europa Press (George Reavey), Paris · 1935

No territorial precedence question: this is a Paris-printed English-language original with no contemporaneous London or New York edition — Chatto and Windus, Beckett's London publisher, had turned the poems down. The serious trap here is a title collision. 'Echo's Bones', the suppressed 1933 short story written as a coda to More Pricks Than Kicks and rejected by Charles Prentice, is an entirely different work, first published only in 2014 by Faber and Faber (UK) and Grove Press (US), edited by Mark Nixon. A 2014 'Echo's Bones' has no relation to the 1935 poetry collection beyond the shared title.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-041994 for "Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates" by Samuel Beckett (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041994, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).