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Waiting For Godot

Waiting For Godot

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Waiting For Godot

by Beckett, Samuel

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London: Faber & Faber 1956. 8vo. 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. . Very Good. Hardcover. First English Edition. 1956.

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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Bookseller
Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
71658
Title
Waiting For Godot
Author
Beckett, Samuel
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First English Edition
Publisher
Faber & Faber 1956
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1956
Size
8vo.
Keywords
Theatre,Modern,Avant-Garde,Theatre of the Absurd
Bookseller catalogs
Modern First Editions; Performing Arts - Theatre / Dance;

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