Godot: An Imaginary Staging by William T. Wiley of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
by BECKETT, Samuel
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San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2006. ARION PRESS; WILEY, William T.. One of 300 Numbered Copies, Signed by the Artist
[ARION PRESS]. WILEY, William T.,[artist]. Godot. An Imaginary Staging by William T. Wiley of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2006.
Limited to 300 numbered copies, this being number 168. Signed by the artist on the colophon. Folio (15 x 10 inches; 381 x 255 mm). 68 pp. With fifty color illustrations by Wiley in black, blue and yellow, and two black and while illustrations including a frontispiece portrait and a tailpiece.
Publisher's quarter blue cloth over printed pictorial yellow paper boards. Yellow paper spine label, lettered in black. Housed in a cloth and paper pictorial slipcase. Mint. With prospectus laid in.
"This book is published in 2006 in honor of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Samuel Beckett. It is not the play Waiting for Godot. It is a book about the play: a critic's appreciation, a synopsis of the drama, and artist's comments, and fifty color prints inspired by the play. There are two other prints, in black only: a frontispiece portrait of the playwright and an explosive tailpiece." (From the Prospectus).
HBS 65447.
$850.
[ARION PRESS]. WILEY, William T.,[artist]. Godot. An Imaginary Staging by William T. Wiley of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2006.
Limited to 300 numbered copies, this being number 168. Signed by the artist on the colophon. Folio (15 x 10 inches; 381 x 255 mm). 68 pp. With fifty color illustrations by Wiley in black, blue and yellow, and two black and while illustrations including a frontispiece portrait and a tailpiece.
Publisher's quarter blue cloth over printed pictorial yellow paper boards. Yellow paper spine label, lettered in black. Housed in a cloth and paper pictorial slipcase. Mint. With prospectus laid in.
"This book is published in 2006 in honor of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Samuel Beckett. It is not the play Waiting for Godot. It is a book about the play: a critic's appreciation, a synopsis of the drama, and artist's comments, and fifty color prints inspired by the play. There are two other prints, in black only: a frontispiece portrait of the playwright and an explosive tailpiece." (From the Prospectus).
HBS 65447.
$850.
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- Bookseller
- Heritage Book Shop, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 65447
- Title
- Godot
- Author
- BECKETT, Samuel
- Illustrator
- ARION PRESS; WILEY, William T.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Arion Press
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- Illustrated Books|Fine Printing|Plays
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