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Price: US$2003.13 + 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$16154.31 + shipping
Description: 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 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.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom