Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot: A tragicomedy in two acts. Faber, 1956.
Price: US$24.86 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Paperback book in good condition.
Seller: The Book Squirrel Limited, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom
Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot. Faber & Faber Paper Covered Editions, London, UK, 1956.
Price: US$25.67 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Clean, neat and tightly bound copy. 94 pages. Size: Approx 5" Wide - 8" Tall
Seller: Eaglestones, Oudtshoorn, South Africa
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot. Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1956.
Price: US$32.08 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First published February 1956, Second impression February 1956.Cream/yellow boards,red lettering to spine.Some rubbing to lettering, some fading to colour on boards,page edges tanned,previous owner's name on fep,spotting to first few pages,contents clean, no annotations.
Seller: eclecticbooks, BOLTON, United Kingdom
BECKETT, SAMUEL. Waiting for Godot. Faber and Faber 1956, 1956.
Price: US$36.68 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION 2ND IMP., LACKS D/W, octavo, yellow buckram boards, brown lettering to spine, 94pp, VG (sl bruising & scuffing to spine & extrems, moderate fading & soiling to spine & board edges, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & eps, prev. ownership markings in ink to ffep, light foxing sporadically throughout)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting For Godot. Faber, 1956.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The jacket is a bit edgeworn.Previous ownership stamp.Some foxing.Excellent binding.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
BECKETT SAMUEL. Waiting for Godot. Faber, 1956.
Price: US$99.19 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hard cover. Second UK edition published same year as the first. 94pp VG+ Mustard cloth with owner's inscription to ffep minimal foxing tight binding. Price clipped DW has one inch chip missing top of spine. Actually a nice copy of this seminal work.
Seller: Trinity Books, Boyle, ROSCO, Ireland
Samuel Beckett. Waiting For Godot. Faber & Faber, 1956.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Faber and Faber Limited; London, 1956. Hardcover. Second UK Printing (publication same month as First Edition). A Very Good, yellow cloth binding with red lettering on spine, binding sturdy and intact, some rubbing to board and spine edges, spine lean, previous owner handwritten ink name top front free endpaper, small bookstore sticker bottom front pastedown, starting front hinge, very mild scattered foxing to text block edges, bit of age toning to pages, bit of discoloration to pastedowns and endpapers, in a Very Good, some handling/scuff marks to panels, bit of edge/corner wear, sunned spine and verso, small tear top front panel edge, bit of age toning to panels/flaps and verso, Dust Wrapper. A nice and overall clean copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9], 94pp. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. Please Note: Depending on site, actual book for sale may differ physically from picture listed. Additional scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.
Seller: Lavendier Books, Foster, RI, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.38 + shipping
Description: 2nd impression, February 1956 of Waiting for Godot; dustwrapper shows and image from an early production to front panel, and photo of Beckett to rear; clay cloth boards with red titling to spine; small bookshop stamp to front pastedown, former owner's name/date to front endpaper, tape-stains and foxing (med-heavy) to endpapers, lighter foxing to text block and prelims, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper with light foxing to flaps, price clipped, o.w. Very Good. Dustwrapper. 94pp. 8vo. Good-Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper Good-Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper
Seller: Gotcha By The Books, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot. Faber and Faber, London, 1956, 1956.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good in a Very Good jacket. 2nd Printing. A nice clean firm copy with light offsetting to first and last endpaper. The dust jacket is complete with light edge wear.
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Price: US$187.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 94 pages, a very good hardback, publisher's original mustard cloth boards, with red lettering to the spine. INCLUDES Publisher's Note bound in after the copyright page alluding to cuts to the play after leaving The Arts Theatre and transferring to The Criterion Theatre to satisfy The Lord Chamberlain. Tightly bound and clean throughout, although endpapers are lightly foxed.
Seller: G. & J. CHESTERS, TAMWORTH, United Kingdom
Beckett, Samuel. WAITING FOR GODOT. Faber and Faber, London, 1956.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 94 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Good plus dust jacket. Black and tan spine with black and tan text. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has chipping to head edge of spine, bending to spine edges, and slight chipping to corners. Boards have bending to spine edges. Textblock has partial toning to endpapers. Shelved Case 13. 1373954. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$224.57 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First UK edition. Publisher's original mustard cloth boards, red titles to spine. Some light staining to boards. Plain endpapers. Prior owner's name in ink to fep. Publisher's note inserted after the copyright page alluding to cuts to the play after leaving The Arts Theatre and transferring to The Criterion Theatre to satisfy The Lord Chamberlain. No jacket. First UK edition of one of the most important plays of the 20th Century. Preceded by Beckett's original French version ("En attendant Godot", 1952) and a New York edition, 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.
Seller: Caffrey Books, Oundle, United Kingdom
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot a tragicomedy in two acts.. Faber and Faber, London, 1956.
Price: US$256.65 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Second impression. A fresh copy in collectible condition. Slight rubbing to spinr ends.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot. A Tragicomedy in Two Acts. Faber and Faber, London, 1956.
Price: US$270.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 94pp. Yellow cloth binding stamped in red on spine. Endpapers browned, dust has has wear with small loss ot spine ends and tips. 9s 6d net on dust jacket flap. Photos on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Valley Books, AMHERST, MA, U.S.A.
BECKETT,SAMUEL. Waiting for Godot. faber and faber london 1956, 1956.
Price: US$305.68 + shipping
Description: first UK edition 94pp VG+ (mustard cloth,v.sl.soiled,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed,owner's inscr.to ffep,publisher's note slip loosely inserted,spine cracked at half-title gutter but contents are tight and clean) in VG- d/w (rubbed and soiled,chipping and wear to extrems.,3cm closed tear and crease to foot of front cover,small splits to head of hinges)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot. Faber & Faber, 1956.
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1956 Faber & Faber Hardcover 1st Edition 2nd Impression. Very good+ clean tight binding in very good+ dustjacket. Wonderful jacket design as shown. Dustjackets have had a few small repairs over their lifetimes.
Seller: MacKellar Art & Books, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Second impression of the first UK edition, published in February 1956 (the same month as the first), preceded by Beckett's original French version "En Attendant Godot" published by Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris in 1952, and an American edition published by Grove Press, New York in 1954. ***The UK edition was 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, as noted in the publisher's note which is printed at the beginning of the book (the first impression had this note tipped in to the book on a separate sheet). ***Near fine in yellow cloth-covered boards with red titles to the spine. The cloth is beautifully clean and unmarked, having been protected by the dustwrapper. No significant creases or bumps - just very slight creasing to the top corner tips of the boards. The top edge of the page block is slightly foxed, but the other edges are clean. Internally, the book is also near fine, with a neat contemporaneous gift inscription in pencil on the front free endpaper. The interior pages are really clean, with no foxing and no annotations. None of the usual offsetting to the endpapers. There is a small fold crease to the top corner of p.29/30 - otherwise no creases or tears. Spine tight. ***In a near fine monochrome-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 9s 6d net (most copies of the second impression have been price-clipped by the publisher with a revised printed price of 10s 6d net). The dustwrapper is only slightly rubbed and scuffed at the extremities, mainly at the top of the spine. No significant creases or tears, and no chips. The back panel of the dustwrapper is unusually clean, with just a very small stain near the spine. The spine of the dustwrapper is also very clean - just slightly browned and marked. Dustwrapper bright. ***210mm x 130mm. 94 pages. ***'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).' ***'"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). ***A second impression of the first UK edition, complete in its original first-state dustwrapper, in beautiful collector's condition. Early impression copies of this most famous work are seldom found now in such nice condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts. Faber and Faber, 1956.
Price: US$354.18 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First British Edition, Second Impression, in same year as first. A Fine copy in soft goldenrod cloth stamped in dull red at spine, in a Near Fine first issue dustwrapper (with "9s 6d" on front flap). Mild offset to front free endpaper. One short closed tear top front panel of jacket, and tiny loss to crown. 94pp. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Nobel Prize winner's masterpiece.
Seller: BazaarofBooks, London, United Kingdom
Samuel Beckett. Waiting For Godot. London: Faber and Faber, 1956.
Price: US$375.78 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, second print. Near fine in near fine jacket. DJ is unclipped, has minor chipping to spine and corners. Previous owner's ink inscription to front free endpaper. Book comes protected in mylar cover.
Seller: The Scribe Bookstore, ABAC, Toronto, ON, Canada
BECKETT Samuel. Waiting for Godot. Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1956.
Price: US$378.56 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 94pp. Yellow cloth boards with titles in red to spine in protected price clipped dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Publisher's Note tipped in stating that the text printed here is that used in the Criterion Theatre production. Dustwrapper lightly bumped at extremities. Endpapers lightly foxed. Textblock clean tight and bright. A very nice copy indeed.
Seller: David Kenyon, King's Lynn, United Kingdom
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot. Faber & Faber, 1956.
Price: US$384.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1956 Faber & Faber Hardcover 1st Edition 2nd Impression. Very good+ clean tight binding in very good+ unclipped dustjacket. Together with playbill from Grand Theatre Leeds with 2 ticket stubs, plus a review from The Listener dated January 24th 1957.
Seller: MacKellar Art & Books, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
BECKETT, Samuel. Waiting for Godot. Faber, London, 1956.
Price: US$384.98 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 94. Original yellow boards, lettered in red to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, photographic portrait of the author to rear panel. Contemporary (1956) ownership signature to front free endpaper (see below). Publisher's note tipped in. Pencilled notes to rear endpapers, small bookseller's label to front pastedown, offsetting to endpapers, a very good copy in a worn and rubbed dustwrapper, with a chip to head of spine affecting dustwrapper text. First UK edition. Publisher's note tipped in, explaining textual deletions made 'to satisfy the requirements of the Lord Chamberlain.' Margaret Braund's copy, with her ownership signature dated 1956 to front free endpaper. She taught at the Central School of Speech and Drama and at the ArtsEd drama schools in London. Her notes on the first London production of the play, directed in 1955 by Peter Hall, cover the rear endpapers: '1st night audience in London, yawns, ironic laughs, audience walking out - attacked. Interminable evening, the actors felt. [.] Peter Hall "It has no literal or final meaning.".'.
Seller: Neil Pearson Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Beckett, Samuel. WAITING FOR GODOT. Faber & Faber, London, 1956.
Price: US$384.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Often incorrectly described as the first edition - there was an American edition in 1954, as well as the original French edition of 1952. This edition differed slightly from the American one thanks to the strict censorship that existed in British theatres until 1968. This copy has the tipped in publisher's note referring to the 'small number of textual deletions', but does not give details. The Lord Chamberlain had insisted on the removal of the world 'erection' and 'the clap' was replaced by 'warts' - among others. The top edge is a little dulled and the dustwrapper, which is not price-clipped, has minimal traces of wear to head and tail of spine and a minor crease to the front flap.
Seller: Left On The Shelf (PBFA), Kendal, United Kingdom
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts. Faber and Faber, 1956.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Second printing. Yellow cloth lettered in red. Very slightly cocked, else fine. Dust jacket a trifle worn at corners and head of spine. Still an eminently collectible copy of the greatest play of the 20th century.
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel.. Waiting for Godot. A Tragicomedy in Two Acts.. Faber & Faber Ltd, London, 1956.
Price: US$435.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First British Edition, Second Impression, in same year as first. A Fine copy in soft goldenrod cloth stamped in dull red at spine, in a Near Fine first issue dustwrapper (with "9s 6d" on front flap). Mild offset to front free endpaper. One short closed tear top front panel of jacket, and tiny loss to crown. 94pp. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Nobel Prize winner's masterpiece. Q17878
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot A Tragicomedy in Two Acts. Faber & Faber, E-194, 1956.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Faber and Faber Limited. 1956. 94 pgs. First Edition/Second Printing (printed the same month as the first). DJ has shelf-wear present (chip present to the crown & heel of the DJ spine). Bound in cloth boards. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name stamp to the FFEP. Damp stain present to edge of text. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. E-194; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 94 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
BECKETT Samuel. Waiting for Godot. A Tragicomedy in Two Acts. , 1956.
Price: US$606.35 + shipping
Description: First English edition. 8vo. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in red, dust jacket. London, Faber and Faber. The first issue, with the jacket price of 9s 6d and with the publisher's advertisements for their James Joyce titles and containing the publisher's tipped-in announcing that ?When Waiting for Godot was transferred from the Arts Theatre to the Criterion Theatre, a small number of textual deletions were made to satisfy the requirements of the Lord Chamberlain. The text printed here is that used in the Criterion Theatre production? From the library of the British poet and Oxford Professor of English literature Jon Stallworthy (1935-2014). A very good copy, with wear to the extremities of the jacket, spine lightly age toned, and offsetting to endpapers.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot. Faber, UK, 1956.
Price: US$609.55 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition 1956. This is the true first UK (British) edition, first printing (with "First published in England in mcmlvi stated on the copyright page, and with no later printings listed). The Publisher's Note is tipped in after the copyright page as required for the true first printing. Book is very good++ and quite bright. Contents good. Endpapers darkened. The wrapper is very good+ and bright with light rubbing to edges. Spine age toned. More images can be taken upon request. Ref16514
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting For Godot. Faber & Faber 1956, London, 1956.
Price: US$609.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First English Edition. 94pp. Yellow hardback in black & white pictorial jacket, not price clipped. Jacket yellowed with minor wear around edges. Boards clean. Slight offsetting to endpapers and ink name to ffep., but otherwise internally clean. With a publisher's note on page 5 explaining that the play text is that used in the transferred English production at the Criterion Theatre - censored by the Lord Chamberlain. One of the most written about and performed plays of the 20th century, 'Godot' is a paramount example of the Theatre of the Absurd. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot: a Tragicomedy in Two Acts. Faber & Faber, London, 1956.
Price: US$699.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Yellow cloth titled in orange. First printing. Boards faintly askew and slightly bowed. Offset/darkening to endpages else tight, square and unmarked. Trace scuffing/rubbing to cloth. Publisher's note tipped in. The DJ in mylar is lightly edgeworn/nicked, tiny bit of foxing and some darkening to top edge of flaps. Price 9s 6d to flap. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting For Godot. Faber & Faber 1956, London, 1956.
Price: US$705.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First English Edition. 94 pp. Yellow hardback in black & white pictorial jacket, not price clipped. Lightly rubbed to spine ends and extremities, a few small tears around edges. Small marks to panels. Slight darkening to top of back board, otherwise boards clean. Offsetting to endpapers and a W. S. Kennedy bookplate, designed by Thomas Sturge-Moore, to front pastedown; otherwise internally clean. With a publisher's note on page 5 explaining that the play text is that used in the transferred English production at the Criterion Theatre - censored by the Lord Chamberlain. Also included are some contemporary newspaper clippings from the Times Literary Supplement immediately after this first edition was published, offering some different interpretations of the play in letters to the editor, including one from William Empson. Viewers and readers might find references to religion, war, the philosophical and psychoanalytical in its extremely pared back style. One of the most written about and performed plays of the 20th century, ' Waiting for Godot' is a paramount example of the Theatre of the Absurd. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
BECKETT, Samuel.. Waiting for Godot - a tragicomedy in two acts.. Faber and Faber, London., 1956.
Price: US$737.88 + shipping
Description: First U.K. edition. Octavo. 94 pages. Tipped in is the small printed slip regarding the requirements of the Lord Chamberlain.Small address label on front free endpaper. Some spotting to endpapers. Very good in very good, very slightly nicked dustwrapper with some rubbing to edges.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot. Faber & Faber, London, 1956.
Price: US$739.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK edition. Gold cloth with bright red lettering to spine. Spine head slightly softened. Glue darkened/puckering of paper to endpages. Publisher's note tipped in following copyright page. Unmarked, sharp-cornered. The unclipped jacket in mylar slightly chipped at spine ends and rubbed at spine edge. Jacket price reads 9s 6d net. A tight square unmarked copy in unclipped jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Beckett (Samuel).. Waiting for Godot; a tragicomedy in two acts. Faber and Faber Limited,, 1956.
Price: US$741.09 + shipping
Description: Free end-papers a little browned as usual, otherwise a very nice copy in slightly nicked dust-wrapper which has the slightest of wear at the corners. With the publishers slip relating to excisions made for the Lord Chamberlain Federman & Fletcher 373.1
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting For Godot. London; Faber & Faber; 1956;, 1956.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st U.K. edition; book is near fine with a small previous owner name on front pastedown, behind the DJ flap, publisher's note tipped in, in a VG DJ with light edgewear and a one inch closed tear and small chip at the bottom of the front panel; not price-clipped.
Seller: Walt Barrie Rare Books, gleneden beach, OR, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting For Godot. Faber & Faber, London, 1956.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Yellow cloth covers printed in red at spine. First UK edition with Publisher's Note tipped on to the page following the copyright page. 94 pp. Some darkening and offset to endpapers else a particularly bright and clean copy. The price-intact dustwrapper is in exemplary condition. Among the most important plays of the 20th century.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot. Faber & Faber, 1956.
Price: US$962.45 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1956 Faber & Faber Hardback 1st Edition 1st Impression. Very good+ clean tight binding in very good unclipped dustjacket. Yellow cloth boards. With publishers note re Criterion Theatre production.Wonderful Jacket design as shown.
Seller: MacKellar Art & Books, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot. Faber and Faber, 1956.
Price: US$1090.78 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Translated by Beckett from the original French, this is the first British edition of Becketts masterpiece, one of the most influential plays of all time. Published by Faber and Faber in 1956. Fine.
Seller: CASSIUS&Co., London, United Kingdom
BECKETT, Samuel. Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts. London: Faber and Faber, 1956.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition. Octavo. A pleasing, unsophisticated copy of Beckett's masterpiece, complete with Publisher's Note tipped-in after title page, referring to passages censored by the Lord Chamberlain's Office. Typical toning to endpapers, else a near fine copy in mustard cloth boards with red lettering to spine. Some rubbing to extremities of unclipped photo-illustrated jacket, else near fine.
Seller: Harper's Books, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
BECKETT, Samuel. Waiting for Godot. Faber and Faber, London, 1956.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First English edition. Toning on the endpapers and the boards a little bowed, about very good in a near very good dustwrapper with some rubbing and modest tears. From the library of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Peter Taylor and his wife, the National Book Award-nominated poet Eleanor Ross Taylor, with Peter Taylor's ownership signature on the front fly.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1989.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Beckett, Samuel (1956) Waiting for Godot. UK first edition, first printing, published by Faber and Faber. Together with a handwritten and signed Beckett letter on Becketts personal stationary card. Condition of the book: in very good condition and complete with the Publishers Note between the two copyright pages. Internally clean without any comments written or underlinings in the text. The mustard colour boards are generally clean with slight shelf wear and some dustiness to the top. A few foxing spots to page block, pastedowns/ endpapers and prelims. Typical ghosting to endpapers. The first state dust jacket shows some rubbing to the edges and has a tear on th efront flap. Small chips to edges. The letter: original hadnwritten small letter on Becketts personal stationary card, dated Paris 24 July 1984. Written in French Becketts charismatic hand. In the note the author mourns the death of a friend and expresses his condolences. Waiting for Godot is the most significant play of the 20th century which premiered in the English language in London in 1955. It was originally written in French and premiered in Paris in 1953. The story of Vladimir and Estragon who endlessly wait for someone called Godot is iconic, and many interpretations (existential, theological, Freudian, Jungian, political etc.) have surrounded the play. First and Fine
Seller: First and Fine, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Samuel Beckett. WAITING FOR GODOT ** Signed True First UK Edition **. Faber & Faber, London, 1956.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ***** This is the true first UK (British) edition, first printing (with "First published in England in mcmlvi" stated on the copyright page, and with no later printings listed). ***** The Publisher's Note is tipped in after the copyright page (as required for the true first printing). ***** This book is SIGNED by the author (Samuel Beckett) on the half-title page. The author has not inscribed this book to anyone; it is just signed by the author. ***** Hardcover, with the original dust jacket. There is NO writing, NO bookplates, and NO remainder marks. It is NOT a book club edition and NOT a former library book. ***** CONDITION: The book and the dust jacket are in VERY GOOD condition (toning to endpages, toning to dust jacket spine and inner flaps). The dust jacket is NOT price-clipped (9s 6d net). This is the true first issue dust jacket (with "books by James Joyce" listed on the rear inner flap). ***** OUR GUARANTEE TO YOU: All books are guaranteed to be as described. We believe that no sale is complete until you are happy. Any book is returnable for a full refund (including postage) if you're not 100% satisfied. Thank you! Richard Vick, Modern First Editions (Buying and Selling Modern First Editions since 1982).
Seller: Richard Vick, Modern First Editions, Coral Springs, FL, U.S.A.
Samuel Beckett. WAITING FOR GODOT ** Signed True First UK Edition **. Faber & Faber, London, 1956.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: ***** This is the true first UK (British) edition, first printing (with "First published in England in mcmlvi" stated on the copyright page, and with no later printings listed). ***** The Publisher's Note is tipped in after the copyright page (as required for the true first printing). ***** This book is SIGNED by the author (Samuel Beckett) on the half-title page. The author has not inscribed this book to anyone; it is just signed by the author. ***** Nice hardcover, with the original dust jacket. There is NO writing, NO bookplates, and NO remainder marks. It is NOT a book club edition and NOT a former library book. ***** CONDITION: The book and the dust jacket are in NEAR FINE condition. The dust jacket IS price-clipped, but it is the true first issue dust jacket (with "books by James Joyce" listed on the rear inner flap). ***** OUR GUARANTEE TO YOU: All books are guaranteed to be as described. We believe that no sale is complete until you are happy. Any book is returnable for a full refund (including postage) if you're not 100% satisfied. Thank you! Richard Vick, Modern First Editions (Buying and Selling Modern First Editions since 1982).
Seller: Richard Vick, Modern First Editions, Coral Springs, FL, U.S.A.
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting For Godot: A Tragicomedy In Two Acts.. Faber and Faber, London, 1956.
Price: US$11000.00 + shipping
Description: First British edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original black cloth. Signed by Samuel Beckett on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to the extremities. Translated by Beckett from the original French.ÂHoused in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed. 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. Waiting For Godot: A Tragicomedy In Two Acts.. Faber and Faber, London, 1956.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Description: First British edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Dr. Murray with all good wishes Samuel Beckett Paris July 1981." From the library of Irish book collector Dr. Philip Murray, author of The Adventures of a Book Collector. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket that shows some light rubbing to the spine. Translated by Beckett from the original French.ÂHoused in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed by Beckett. 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.
Price: US$16040.82 + shipping
Description: First UK edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Michael Curtis Sam. Beckett. London, June '79". 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 is from the significant 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.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom