Waiting For Godot
by Beckett, Samuel
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/fine
- Seller
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Avon, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber, 1956. First UK edition. Cloth. Very Good +/fine. 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.
Synopsis
Beckett's existentialist play portrays two men who are trapped in endless waiting for the arrival of someone named Godot. They spend their time bantering and conjecturing and trying to anticipate the time and method of arrival. "Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful?"
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Details
- Bookseller
- Derringer Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35119
- Title
- Waiting For Godot
- Author
- Beckett, Samuel
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First UK edition
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- Drama
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature / First Editions;
Terms of Sale
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Derringer Books
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Avon, Connecticut
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- Spine
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- Copyright page
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- Cloth
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- Dustwrapper
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