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1977x-0521291941Cambridge University Press 1977. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 232 pages. 8.30x5.40x0.70 inches. Cambridge University Press paperback
62512110Cambridge University Press CUP pp. 232 . Papeback. New. Cambridge University Press CUP unknown
40263london Faber and Faber 1956 Hardcover book First edition second impression same year as First in dustjacket. 94 pages . A Very Good copy in a poor dustjacket. Covers clean and bright foxing to front and rear end-papers. Previous owners name to front end-paper otherwise contents clean. Jacket is poor however The front illustration is complete and clear but the rear panel illustration of Beckett has been damaged and worn away in places by damp or silverfish. Pictures available. london, Faber and Faber , 1956 hardcover
19540310521954. Softcover. Fair Condition. Grove Press E-33. Presumed first printing no later printings noted. First American Paperback edition. Inside back cover lists Evergreen titles through E-32 Storm at Castelfranco by Chester Kallman. $1.00 cover price. First page and title page spread have numerous long tears looks like a cat got to it. Some chipping to foot of early pages from attached pages being separated with not enough care. A few missing page corners. Coffee stain to front and some mottling to back. Vintage paperback. Quality sewn binding. Binding solid. Moderate to heayy age-darkening to spine. Some toning and rubbing to edges. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 Pounds. Category: Theater & Performance; Inventory No: 031052. BZDB373 paperback
2000mon0000071763The Folio Society 2000T. hardcover. Very Good. 2.5381 cent in x 28.9340 cent in x 18.0203 cent in. The Folio Society hardcover
195424-02-22-GW-31279-lczGrove Press 1954-01-01. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. As pictured. 1st thus Grove Press 1970. some light wear. in a clipped jacket. Jacket has smalll closed tear. Good copy. Grove Press hardcover
1956172530London: Faber and Faber 1956. Rare inscribed copy signed following a rehearsal for Happy Days First UK edition first impression inscribed by the author on the title page "For Michael Curtis Sam. Beckett. London June '79". The recipient was Dr Michael Curtis a correspondent whom the playwright had invited to view a technical rehearsal for Happy Days on 4 June during the rerun at Royal Court Theatre. Curtis 1922-2002 was a London-based medical practitioner who befriended Beckett while collecting a substantial library of 20th-century literature including many signed and inscribed copies. Beckett's own English translation of En attendant Godot 1952 was first published by the Grove Press in New York in 1954. The publisher's tipped-in notice explains that this first UK edition was subject to occasional textual deletions by the Lord Chamberlain and uses the version of the text as performed at the Criterion Theatre from 12 September 1955. The unexpurgated text was not published in the UK until 1965. The play premiered on 5 January 1953 at the Théâtre de Babylone Paris. "The extraordinary success of this first production in French was responsible for Beckett's rise to worldwide fame as the play rapidly became an object of intense international interest and controversy" ODNB. The English-language theatrical premiere took place on 3 August 1955 at the Arts Theatre London. This copy later passed into the theatre collection of Clive Hirschhorn b. 1940 who spent decades as the Sunday Express's film and theatre critic and whose various histories of Hollywood include The Warner Bros. Story 1978 and The Hollywood Musical 1981. Hirschhorn's ownership inscription is pencilled on the front pastedown. Octavo. Original yellow cloth spine lettered in red. With dust jacket. Housed in custom black cloth folding box. Partial browning of free endpapers; bright unclipped jacket with minor rubbing and single nick: a fine copy in like jacket. hardcover
1997mon0000135466Turtleback 8/1/1997 12:00:01 AM. school. Good. 0.6000 in x 8.2000 in x 5.3000 in. Contains marginalia and/or underlining. Former borrowers' names and sticker inside front cover. Mild general wear. Pages clean. Binding sound. Mild shelf wear. Turtleback unknown
1954005561New York: Grove Press Evergreen 33 1954. Third printing. Wraps. Very Good -. 61pp. i-iii. 21 cm. Softcover. Photo-illustrated wraps. Cover price is $1.00. Portrait of Beckett for rear panel. Book condition: wear pretty much throughout spine is heavily soiled with chipping also spine is creased. Still its so real! <br/><br/> Grove Press, Evergreen 33 paperback
19572408033Faber and Faber 1957. third. hardcover. very good/very good. 3rd UK impression 1957. Book very good foxing and discoloration to end papers. Dust jacket very good minor wear along edges toning to edges foxing to inside of dj. Faber and Faber unknown
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195621207301956. London: Faber and Faber Limited. 1956. 8vo. Publisher's maize-yellow coloured cloth lettered in red to spine in photographic dustwrapper with a scene from the play to upper panel and a photographic portrait of Beckett to lower one; pp. viii 9-94 complete with tipped-in Publisher's Note following the title-page regarding the deletions required by the Lord Chamberlain; externally near fine with extremely faint foxing to foreedge of book block with upper edge toned internally fresh minus offsetting from pastedown rubbbing to spine ends and forecorners and with small nicking to head and heel of dust jacket; otherwise very good copy. First UK edition Waiting for Godot was first published in French as ""En attendant Godot"" by Les Editions De Minuit in Paris in 1952 three months before the play's debut performance. It was published in English translated by the author in the U.S. in 1954 by Grove Press New York. The first production in English directed by Peter Hall was staged at the Arts Theatre Club in London in August 1966. hardcover
06162London: Faber and Faber Limited 1956. First Edition of "The Most Significant English-language play of the 20th Century<br /> <br /> BECKETT Samuel. Waiting for Godot a tragicomedy in two acts. London: Faber and Faber Limited 1956.<br /> <br /> First edition second impression without tipped-in publisher's note.<br /> <br /> Octavo 8 x 4 7/8 inches; 203 x 124 mm. 1-8 9-94 pp. <br /> <br /> Publisher's yellow cloth spine lettered in red typical toning and light foxing to endpapers. Pictorial dust jacket slightly chipped at extremities. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket.<br /> <br /> Waiting for Godot is a play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett that follows two characters Vladimir Didi and Estragon Gogo as they engage in conversations and encounters while waiting for the elusive Godot who never appears. The play is an adaptation of Beckett's original French work En attendant Godot and carries the English subtitle "a tragicomedy in two acts." <br /> <br /> Beckett wrote the original French text between October 9 1948 and January 29 1949. It premiered on January 5 1953 at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris under the direction of Roger Blin. The English-language production debuted in London in 1955.<br /> <br /> In a 1998-99 poll conducted by the British Royal National Theatre it was voted "the most significant English-language play of the 20th century.<br /> <br /> Samuel Barclay Beckett 1906-1989 was an Irish-born writer of novels plays short stories and poems. His literary and theatrical work features bleak impersonal and tragicomic experiences of life often coupled with black comedy and nonsense. Beckett is best remembered for his 1953 play Waiting for Godot and he is considered to be one of the last modernist writers as well as a key figure in what Martin Esslin called the "Theatre of the Absurd London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1956 unknown
127841Faber & Faber 1956. Second impression. 8vo 94pp. A very good hardback copy in a price-clipped lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Offsetting to end pages and light foxing throughout. . Faber & Faber, 1956. Second impression hardcover
19561397072London UK: Faber and Faber Limited 1956. First UK Edition Second Impression. Hardcover. Small octavo 94 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is black and cream with black and cream lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering price uncut: "9s 6d" on front flap has mild general agetoning shelving wear along extremities mild chipping to fore corners and faint brown stains along flaps. Boards have mild shelving wear along extremities creasing along joints and bumping wear to rear tail fore corner. Textblock edges have mild scuffing foxing and age-toning; end papers and p.94 moderately foxed. Has previous bookseller's sticker adhered to front pastedown. Shelved in Room C. 1397072. Special Collections. Faber and Faber Limited hardcover
19545486<p>Grove press/An Evergreen Book. 1954. Fourth printing stated. $1.00 cover price. Bookstore sticker front wrap a stain also affecting 1st blank page and some creases. Tight unmarked. Author photo rear wrap. Good. 60 pp.</p> Grove Press paperback
40974London: Faber And Faber Ltd 1956. . Third impression 8vo. pp.94 Naples yellow cloth lettered in red; light foxing and toning to free endpapers slight foxing to fore-edges else very good indeed in complete and unclipped dust-jacket which has light rubbing and chipping to extremities without loss and light foxing to rear upper margin. London: Faber And Faber Ltd, 1956. hardcover
34171Hardback. Very Good. Faber & Faber London. April 1957 - third impression. Very Good in Very Good – Dust Jacket minor pencil notes in margins. DJ protected by high-grade removable clear cover. hardcover
53643477-6Used - Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. unknown
19541405490New York New York: Grove Press 1954. First US Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 60 pages. In Good plus condition. Spine is black with silver and gold lettering. Boards fully bound in publisher's black cloth and have moderate shelving wear fraying and chipping along extremities. Ex-library with call number in white pen on front cover. Binding split ~1in. along front tail joint backing boards exposed mild creasing and small tears along gutter between front endpapers. Spine moderately cocked. Textblock has moderate age-toning along edges and throughout interior; interior has non-archival tape and paper adhered to front pastedown likely covering a library book pocket surface tearing to free-endpapers and moderate staining from age-toned glue along gutter and on pages title page through p.7. Previous owner's underlining and marginalia consistent throughout text. Tipped-in photographs of Samuel Beckett and stage performances of WAITING FOR GODOT stained with age-toned glue and detached completely. CM consignment. Shelved Room C overflow. 1405490. Special Collections. Grove Press hardcover
54977London: Faber and Faber 1956. First UK edition. 8vo. pp.94 small printed slip with a note from the publisher tipped in after title-page. Clean and bright within. Yellow cloth red title to spine. Top edge a little dusty a little very faint toning and a few pencilled booksellers' notes to ffep rear pastedown not properly glued down resulting in a little cockling at the hinge very good indeed. Dust jacket a little tattered at head and tail of spine a bit rubbed along top edge but also very good indeed. This first UK edition marks the third appearance of the play in text form. First came En Attendant Godot Beckett's initial subtly different French-language version. It was published by Les Éditions de Minuit in Paris in 1952 in advance of the first theatrical performance with only 2500 copies being printed. Next the first English-language edition was published in New York by the Grove Press in 1954 ahead of the its debut performance at the Arts Theatre London on 3rd August 1955. The Faber edition of 1956 here marks the first publication of the play in the UK and contains the censored text as performed in a slightly later production at the Criterion Theatre. A tipped-in slip added by the publisher notes that when the play transferred from the Arts Theatre to the Criterion 'a small number of textual deletions were made to satisfy the requirements of the Lord Chamberlain.' It would be nearly a decade before the unexpurgated text had its first performance in England at the Royal Court Theatre on 30 December 1964. London: Faber and Faber, 1956. hardcover
19568165London: Faber & Faber 1956. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo 21cm; chickpea yellow cloth with titles stamped in dark red on spine; dustjacket; 89-942pp with "Publisher's Note" slip tipped-in following the copyright page. Some offsetting to endpaper with mild bubbling to pastedowns and light foxing to text edges; cloth is bright and clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 9s.6d. net showing minute wear to spine ends and upper corner tips; very Near Fine with the spine panel notable absent the usual toning. <br /> <br /> Attractive copy of the author's best-known work first published as En attendant Godot in Paris in 1952 and translated into English here by Beckett himself. Federman & Fletcher 373.1. Faber & Faber unknown
2001070010London: The Folio Society 2001. Book. Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 110pp cream green and brown pictorial boards with title in black to spine with dark green slipcase. Second Folio Society printing. Some shelfwear some foxing to rear board slight fading to spine. The Folio Society Hardcover
2006HVD-74852-A-0New York NY: Grove Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2006. Bilingual Edition. Hardcover. 6.25 X 1.25 X 9.25 inches; 357 pages; very minor shelf rubbing on the covers. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence. . Grove Press hardcover
195621248691956. New York: Grove Press. 1954. 8vo. Original black cloth spine lettered in gilt and silver and in blind across boards and spine red endpapers in the dust-jacket priced $4.75 to upper edge of front flap; pp. 7 ff. 7-60 pp. 5; 2 ff. photographic plates after p. iv; extremities of dust-jacket lightly rubbed spine a little toned small pink stain to lower edge of rear flap; a near-fine copy in a very good jacket.A crisp bright copy of the first printing in English of Beckett's most famous work preceding the expurgated UK issue by two years.En attendant Godot was first published by Les Editions de Minuit in 1952 and premiered on 5 January 1953 at the Theatre de Babylone in Paris. Beckett's English translation completed later the same year was first staged on 3 August 1955 at London's Arts Theatre directed by Peter Hall the American premiere directed by Alan Schneider taking place on 3 January 1956 at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami. The US edition of the translation issued by Grove Press in September 1954 predates the UK edition which was published by Faber and Faber in February 1956. The Faber edition included cuts to the text required by the Lord Chamberlain the play described by censor C. W. Heriot as an 'ugly little jet of marsh-gas' and 'two hours of angry boredom'; the cuts would remain unrestored in UK editions until 1965.Federman & Fletcher 373. hardcover
