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Samuel Beckett. En attendant Godot. Editions de Minuit, 1952.
Price: US$3.31 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.
Seller: Ammareal, Morangis, France
Samuel Beckett. En attendant Godot. Editions de Minuit, 1952.
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: Traces d'usure sur la couverture. Petite(s) trace(s) de pliure sur la couverture. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Signs of wear on the cover. Slightly creased cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.
Seller: Ammareal, Morangis, France
Samuel Beckett. En attendant Godot. Editions de Minuit, 1952.
Price: US$3.31 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Salissures sur la tranche. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Stains on the edge. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.
Seller: Ammareal, Morangis, France
Samuel Beckett. En attendant Godot. Editions de Minuit, 1952.
Price: US$3.31 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Légères traces d'usure sur la couverture. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.
Seller: Ammareal, Morangis, France
Beckett, Samuel. En attendant Godot. Editions de Minuit, 1952.
Price: US$4.31 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Editions de Minuit collection , 1952. 1 volume format In-8 très bon.
Seller: Librairie Thé à la page, Montélimar, France
Samuel Beckett. En Attendant Godot. French & European Publications, Inc., 1952.
Price: US$5.88 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: THE SCRIPT! Not so pretty. ACTING EDITION SCRIPT will serve as a useful Starving Student Edition when you need an extra! Some shelf wear and edge wear to the covers. Economically priced ACTING EDITION for your performance needs. This Acceptable THEATER SCRIPT has ENTIRE TEXT IN FRENCH. STAIN MARKS. PAGE TANNING.
Seller: The Yard Sale Store, Narrowsburg, NY, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. En attendant Godot. Editions de Minuit, 1952.
Price: US$6.52 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: Résumé : L'attente comprend deux phases, l'ennui et l'angoisse. La pièce comprend donc deux actes, l'un grotesque, l'autre grave. Préoccupé de peu de choses hormis ses chaussures, la perspective de se pendre au seul arbre qui rompt la monotonie du paysage et Vladimir, son compagnon d'infortune, Estragon attend. Il attend Godot comme un sauveur. Mais pas plus que Vladimir, il ne connaît Godot. Aucun ne sait au juste de quoi ce mystérieux personnage doit les sauver, si ce n'est peut-être, justement, de l'horrible attente. Liés par un étrange rapport de force et de tendresse, ils se haranguent l'un et l'autre et s'affublent de surnoms ridicules. Outre que ces diminutifs suggèrent que "Godot" pourrait bien être une synthèse qui ne se réalisera qu'au prix d'un anéantissement, Didi et Gogo portent en leur sein la répétition, tout comme le discours de Lucky, disque rayé qui figure le piétinement incessant auquel se réduit toute tentative de production de sens. Cette pièce composée en 1952, quinze ans avant que Beckett ne soit couronné par le prix Nobel de littérature, est un tour de force qui démontre les profondeurs que peut atteindre un langage en apparence absurde. LIVRAISON GRATUITE DANS LE MONDE ENTIER. LIVRE (S) ENVELOPPÉ (S) DANS DU PLASTIQUE A BULLES, ENVOI RAPIDE ET SOIGNÉ.
Seller: books-livres11.com, NOTRE DAME DE MONTS, France
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: White stiff wraps, lettered in dark blue and black, French flaps. Covers slightly soiled, mildly toned along spine panel and upper rear edge. Square, uncreased binding, clean interior, typically a bit toned by age. 164 pp. 1966 printing, reasonably scarce. Text in French. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$61.33 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: RO80270925: 1952-1964. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 163 + 124 + 77 + 217 pages - couverture jaunie. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne
Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France
SAMUEL BECKETT. En attendant Godot, 13e mille. Les éditions de Minuit, 1952.
Price: US$165.73 + shipping
Description: Les éditions de Minuit 1952. in-12. 164 pages. Les éditions de Minuit 1952. in-12. 164 pages. Nb de volume : 1. Copyright de 1952 sans mention d'édition, il est indiqué toutefois au second plat la mention "13e mille". Il est en outre indiqué qu'En attendant Godot a été créé pour la première fois le 5 janvier 1953 au théâtre Babylone. . Copyright de 1952 sans mention d'édition, il est indiqué toutefois au second plat la mention "13e mille". Il est en outre indiqué qu'En attendant Godot a été créé pour la première fois le 5 janvier 1953 au théâtre Babylone. . Bon état de la couverture, quelques traces au coin inférieur droit, aspect jauni, pages coupées, léger décollement du dos à la coiffe inférieure sinon bon exemplaire en bon état .
Seller: Librairie des Possibles, ROUFFACH, France
Price: US$248.60 + shipping
Description: Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 163 pages ; 19 cm. Subjects; Beckett, Samuel 1906-1989; history. French drama. Irish drama Irish authors. French history. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$280.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 163 pages ; 19 cm. Subjects; Beckett, Samuel 1906-1989; history. French drama. Irish drama Irish authors. French history. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. En attendant Godot [Waiting for Godot]. Les Editions de Minuit, Paris, 1952.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Very Good copy of the first trade edition, following the 35 signed copies. A fragile softcover book. Front wrapper reattached and a tear repaired on p 29. Spine creased and a bit toned, text block also a bit browned, as often. One of the masterpieces of 20th century theatre - Beckett's hugely influential tragicomedy. Beckett had originally written the play in French between the Fall and Winter of 1948-1949. (Beckett would not translate the play into English until its London premier, in 1955) In fact, this edition of the play - the Minuit edition - was released in 1952, before the play's first performance the next year. Beckett was thought to have been inspired to write the work after viewing Caspar David Friedrich's painting "Mann und Frau den Mond betrachtend" (Man and Woman observing the Moon). Upon its French premier, the play was met with positive reviews and though it was first received somewhat coldly in London, it would soon become a popular and critical success there and worldwide. Some critics, like Norman Berlin, credit the play's wide appeal to its "stripped down" nature - its simplicity encourages a myriad of readings and interpretations that otherwise could not exist. Beckett would later win the Nobel Prize for Literature and "Waiting for Godot" appears on Le Monde's list of the "100 Books of the Century." "It arrives at the custom house, as it were, with no luggage, no passport and nothing to declare: yet it gets through as might a pilgrim from Mars. It does this, I believe, by appealing to a definition of drama much more fundamental than any in the books. A play, it asserts and proves, is basically a means of spending two hours in the dark without being bored." (Contemporary Observer review from the famed drama critic Kenneth Tynan.). Very Good.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. EN ATTENDANT GODOT Pièce en deux actes. Editions de Minuit, 1952.
Price: US$1657.34 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Editions de Minuit, 1952 - In-12 broché, couv. cart. 163 pages, dos bruni avec petite trace d'humidité ancienne en pied (n'affectant que la couverture), légère trace du temps sur les plats, petite griffure au coin inférieur du premier plat, sinon bon état. Edition originale du tirage courant (après seulement 35 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin), achevé d'imprimer en date de septembre 1952.
Seller: Librairie AU SUD DE NULLE PART, Le Landreau, France
BECKETT Samuel. En attendant Godot Pièce en deux actes. Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris, 1952.
Price: US$1767.82 + shipping
Description: 1 volume in-8° Broché Édition originale sur papier ordinaire:il n'a été tiré que 35 exemplaires sur vélin supérieur. Très rare. Rousseurs habituelles, mais couvertures très belles. Peut-être la plus importante pièce de théâtre du XXè siècle ? 1 volume in-8°
Seller: Librairie Seigneur, VOINGT, France
Beckett, Samuel. En attendant Godot. Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1952., 1952.
Price: US$1974.86 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First Trade Edition, First Printing. A near fine copy in near fine original printed wrappers in the original glassine. One of 2'500 copies preceded by a first edition of just 35 numbered copies.
Seller: Yves G. Rittener - YGRbookS, Zürich, Switzerland
Beckett, Samuel. En attendant Godot [Waiting for Godot]. Les Editions de Minuit, 1952.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: Inscribed and initialed by Samuel Beckett on half title page. Some wear, creases and toning overall, lower front hinge starting, in plain custom clamshell case. Later printing of first edition (16th thousand.).
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
BECKETT (Samuel).. En attendant Godot. Pièce en deux actes.. Editions de Minuit, Paris, 1952.
Price: US$2486.00 + shipping
Description: In-12, broché, couverture imprimée.Edition originale, pour laquelle le tirage sur grand papier a été limité à 35 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin supérieur. Bel exemplaire du tirage ordinaire.
Seller: Librairie Blaizot, Paris, France
Beckett, Samuel. En attendant Godot. Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris, 1952.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: First trade edition (after 35 signed copies on large paper), one of 2,500 copies. 162, [4] pp. 8vo. Beckett's masterpiece, and one of the defining works of the 20th century. A major innovation in modern drama, possibly the most important play of the 20th Century, and certainly the first theatrical success of the Theatre of the Absurd. Waiting for Godot was the play that secured Beckett's lasting fame. No matter that he'd been publishing since the 1920s or was Joyce's amanuensis. This play, in which "nothing happens," set him on a course that led to the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. Overall, a very well-preserved copy: these trade editions from Les Éditions de Minuit are delicate in construction and notoriously fragile. Federman & Fletcher 259; En français dans le texte, 395 Original printed wrappers, with author's photograph and blurbs on rear wrapper. A very good plus copy, the pages skillfully opened without damage to the margins, the spine toned and lightly cockled, and with narrow shadow along top edge of front wrapper, paper somewhat toned as usual First trade edition (after 35 signed copies on large paper), one of 2,500 copies.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2568.87 + shipping
Description: Paris, Les Editions De Minuit, 1952. 8°. 163 Seiten, 2 Bl. OKarton. "WE ARE WELLKNOWN FOR BOOKS ONLY IN BEST CONDITION!" Erste Ausgabe. First edition. - 'Dépot legal 3e trimestre 1952': September. Fletcher gibt Oktober an. - Schön geschriebener Name auf fliegendem Vorsatz. Deckel hinten leicht fleckig. - Gutes Exemplar. - Original printed wrappers. The issue on ordinary paper. Nice ownership signature on first leaf. As usual, slight darkening to wrappers. No tears, no wear. Very good copy. Scarce. Sprache: Französisch. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie mich immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact me always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***
Seller: Antiquariat CoBrA, Oberrohrbach, Austria
Beckett, Samuel. En attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot). Minuit, Paris, 1952.
Price: US$2700.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good in original wrappers, which are creased with light additional wear. One of 2500 copies of the first printing of the original edition of En attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot).
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. En Attendant Godot. Pià ce en Deux Actes.. Les Ãditions de Minuit, Paris, 1952.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 2500 copies printed of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original wrappers printed in blue and black. In excellent condition with light rubbing to the extremities. âOne of the most influential plays of the post-war periodâ and a central document of the Absurdist school, Waiting for Godot earned Beckett worldwide acclaim (Drabble, 1038). âBeckettâs work invented an entirely new theatrical language, palpable and comprehensible images of the absurd, and unforgettable metaphors of the human conditionâ (Hollier, 1010). "One of the true masterpieces of the century" (Clive Barnes, The New York Times).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. En Attendant Godot. Les Editions Du Minuit, Paris, 1952.
Price: US$2999.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original publisher's printed wrappers, lettered in blue and black. Spine lightly toned and lightly dampstained, with a reading ridge. A few penned words have been partially removed from ffep. Pages lightly toned. In plastic DJ and housed in a fine custom clamshell case. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. En Attendant Godot. Les Editions de Minuit, Paris, 1952.
Price: US$3200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First trade edition, first printing, in the original French. Approaching Near Fine, with toning to pages, spine and lightly to wraps, light soiling and light wear to wraps, with light wear to base of spine. Beckett's masterpiece was first composed and published in French and performed in 1953 at the Theatre de Babylone in Paris. It would later be translated into English by Beckett himself.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. En attendant Godot [Waiting for Godot]. Les Editions de Minuit, Paris, 1952.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A Near Fine copy of the first trade edition, following the 35 signed copies. A fragile softcover book, uncommon in this condition. Spine slightly toned and a crease running the length, slight nicks at the spine ends and a small stain on the rear wrapper. Pages a bit toned, as usual, otherwise an excellent copy internally. One of the masterpieces of 20th century theatre - Beckett's hugely influential tragicomedy. Beckett had originally written the play in French between the Fall and Winter of 1948-1949. (Beckett would not translate the play into English until its London premier, in 1955) In fact, this edition of the play - the Minuit edition - was released in 1952, before the play's first performance the next year. Beckett was thought to have been inspired to write the work after viewing Caspar David Friedrich's painting "Mann und Frau den Mond betrachtend" (Man and Woman observing the Moon). Upon its French premier, the play was met with positive reviews and though it was first received somewhat coldly in London, it would soon become a popular and critical success there and worldwide. Some critics, like Norman Berlin, credit the play's wide appeal to its "stripped down" nature - its simplicity encourages a myriad of readings and interpretations that otherwise could not exist. Beckett would later win the Nobel Prize for Literature and "Waiting for Godot" appears on Le Monde's list of the "100 Books of the Century." "It arrives at the custom house, as it were, with no luggage, no passport and nothing to declare: yet it gets through as might a pilgrim from Mars. It does this, I believe, by appealing to a definition of drama much more fundamental than any in the books. A play, it asserts and proves, is basically a means of spending two hours in the dark without being bored." (Contemporary Observer review from the famed drama critic Kenneth Tynan.). Near Fine.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$4186.85 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, trade issue, scarce in such nice condition. This masterpiece of absurdist theatre and 20th-century literature was published on 17 October 1952. The theatrical premiere took place at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris on 5 January 1953. Its extraordinary success "was responsible for Beckett's rise to worldwide fame, as the play rapidly became an object of intense international interest and controversy" (ODNB). The trade issue consisted of 2,500 copies bound in the fragile wrappers. There were also 35 numbered copies issued on vélin supérieur and designated "L'edition originale". Beckett's own English translation of the work appeared two years later, published in New York by the Grove Press. Federman & Fletcher 259. Octavo. Original white wrappers, spine and covers lettered in blue and black, blue rules to covers, small photographic illustration of author on rear cover, edges untrimmed. Gentle vertical crease to spine, negligible soiling to wrappers, toning to contents as usual, otherwise clean. A near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
BECKETT, Samuel.. En attendant Godot. Pièce en deux actes.. Paris Les Éditions de Minuit, 1952.
Price: US$5445.00 + shipping
Description: First trade edition, first printing (only preceded by the private edition of just 35 numbered copies); small 8vo; somewhat browned internally as always with the papier courant issue; original wrappers printed in blue and black, in the very early, if not original glassine, very light vertical crease to backstip but an absolutely stunning copy and rare thus; contained in a custom-made, blue cloth drop-down box. The best copy we have handled of what is effectively the earliest obtainable manifestation of Godot; a beautiful thing. Written between October 1948 and January 1949, the play was not produced until January 1953, with Roger Blin directing at the Theatre de Babylone (the English language version premiered some two years later in London). First published in September 1952 by Les Editions de Minuit, ahead of the first full performance, only 2500 copies were printed. Thirty 'reviewers came to the générale of En attendant Godot before the public opening. Contrary to later legend, the reviewers were kind. Some dozen reviews in daily newspapers range[d] from tolerant to enthusiastic. Reviews in the weeklies [were] longer and more fervent; moreover, they appeared in time to lure spectators to that first thirty-day run' (Cohn, From Desire to Godot). Federman & Fletcher 259.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Beckett, Samuel. En attendant Godot [Waiting for Godot]. Les Editions De Minuit, Paris, 1952.
Price: US$20000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY BECKETT on the title page; one of the most influential works of modern drama. "Voted the most significant English language play of the 20th century in a British Royal National Theatre poll of 800 playwrights, actors, directors and journalists. Beckett's naked play about two tramps waiting for Godot has tapped into our 20th-century public consciousness. It seems to express our deepest fears and our deepest knowledge of ourselves and our predicament" (Norman Berlin). Notably, the first edition of the text provided the public with their first experience of the complete play-Les Editions de Minuit published it three months before the play's debut (in French) in January 1953. "The first production of Beckett's own English translation, directed by Peter Hall, was staged at the Arts Theatre Club in London in August 1955. Kenneth Tynan's and Harold Hobson's reviews made it into an intellectual hit which has since been regarded as having transformed the British stage" (DNB). Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1952. Octavo, original wrappers; custom half-leather box. Text in French. Some browning and rubbing to spine. Extremely rare signed.
Seller: Manhattan Rare Book Company, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$90178.41 + shipping
Description: True first edition, first printing, number 19 of 35 copies on vélin supérieur, here with the original wrappers bound into a particularly elegant binding by Pierre Lucien Martin, one of the best respected French binders of the century. This is only the second copy we have handled. The original French text was composed between 9 October 1948 and 29 January 1949, although the full theatrical premiere was not until 5 January 1953, at the Théâtre de Babylone, Paris. Beckett's translation into English, Waiting for Godot, premiered in London in 1955 and was published that same year. Federman & Fletcher 259. Octavo. Finely bound in blue morocco by P. L. Martin (184 x 115 mm), with the original wrappers bound in, spine and sides decorated in gilt and blue, spine lettered in gilt direct, blue endpapers, all edges gilt. In matching slipcase, morocco entry with blue paper sides. A fine copy inside and out.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom