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Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts.

Name: Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts.
Author: BECKETT, Samuel.

Book Description

J.B. Priestley’s copy. First UK edition of one of the most important plays of the twentieth century, with the bookplate of J.B. Priestley. Preceded by Beckett’s original French version (En attendant Godot, 1952) and a New York edition in 1954, the present edition is the first to publish the play as performed in London in 1955, its English-language premiere, with the alterations to comply with censorship of British theatres.

Dealer Notes

First UK edition; 8vo; publisher’s printed note tipped in (now detached); publisher’s yellow cloth, spine lettered in red, printed dust-jacket with photographic halftone illustration, a few small marks, endpapers a little foxed, joints split but firm, otherwise a very good copy; [8], 9-94pp.

Author BECKETT, Samuel.

Date 1956

Publisher Faber and Faber Limited

Condition very good

Price: £475.00

Offered by Shapero Rare Books Ltd

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