Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$551.14 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: dem unsigniertem Buch liegt eine Karte bei signiert mit Widmung, Ort und Datum (Berlin sept 67 ) von dem irischen Schriftsteller und Nobelpreisträger Samuel Beckett (1906-89).leichte Gebrauchsspuren, etwas bestossen. with card signed by author 0 Size: 8°
Seller: Antiquariat Luna, Lüneburg, Germany
Samuel Beckett. Waiting For Godot. Grove Press, 1954.
Price: US$4100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American Edition; A Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on a card affixed to the front free paper. An outstanding copy of this first edition printed in English; originally published in French, the play debuted on stage in Paris in 1953; translated by the author into English and published by the Grove Press in 1954. Subtitled "A tragicomedy in two acts", this play has been voted "the most significant English language play of the 20th Century". Signed copies of this book are very rare, the first US even more so; as of this writing, this is the only US edition that includes the author's signature currently on the market. This copy is in near fine condition with a square, tight binding, bright silver and gold spine lettering, and clean pages throughout; the book does show some light soiling to the exterior text block, mild residue to the front pastedown from a removed bookplate, and a discreet PO inscription to the 2nd free paper, else fine. Housed in an original, intact, very good dust jacket that is clean and bright but does show light tanning to the spine and folds, some moderate rubbing and chipping to the spine ends, edges, and corners, a couple of short tears to the front flap fold (one small circular tear at the mid-spine area and one at the spine foot), and one dark stain to the back panel (please see pics for flaws). Overall, a presentable and highly collectible copy, greatly enhanced by the author's elusive signature. Not price clipped ($4.75 intact), not remaindered, and not ex-library; in a fresh Mylar cover and will ship in a sturdy box.
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA, Tomball, TX, U.S.A.
BECKETT, Samuel.. Waiting for Godot.. Grove Press, New York., 1954.
Price: US$12541.20 + shipping
Description: First edition in English, paperback issue in the Evergreen series, simultaneous with the hardback. Octavo. ff 60, [6]. Pictorial wrappers.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed by him on the title-page: ''for Laz and Margaret from Sam affectionately - Paris May 1956''. The recipients are Beckett's friends the poet and economist Lazarus Aaronson and his wife. It seems that the print run for the hardbound copies was so restricted that none was sent to Beckett himself, which meant that even people close to him were presented with these paperbacks. This is a very early inscription, as those usually encountered date from the Seventies and Eighties.Some marginal (tea?) staining to four pages. Covers rubbed and tanned at the spine and edges. Good. A copy of some significance.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot. Grove Press, New York, 1954.
Price: US$20000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: SIGNED BY SAMUEL BECKETT on the title page. A crisp, lovely copy to boot of the 1954 iconic Grove Press edition, not only the 1st American edition but also the first edition to appear in hardback AND the 1st English language edition (which Beckett himself translated from his native French). Clean and Near Fine to Fine in a beautiful, price-intact ($4.75), Near Fine dustjacket. Indisputably one of the three or four most celebrated plays of the 20th century, a remarkable triumph of existentialist theatre and the highwater mark of even as exalted a literary career as the Nobelist Samuel Beckett's (1906-1989). Very elusive in such lovely condition and signed by the author.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.