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[Paris]: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1952. 8vo. 187 x 120 mm., [7 ¼ x 4 ¾ inches]. 163 [iv] pp.  Original printed wrappers with small portrait of the author on the rear wrapper. Wrappers a bit dusty but in very good condition.  Discreet bookseller's stamp in the lower corner of the inside back wrapper.  House in a half morocco clamshell box. First edition with colophon which reads, "Il a été tire de cet ouvrage trente-cinq exemplaire sur velin supérieur numérotés de 1 a 35 et constituent l'édition original."  On the following leaf the imprint reads, "Achevé d'imprimer sur les presses de L'Imprimerie Habauzit a Aubenas (Ardéche), en Septembre mil neuf cent cinquante deux.  Dépôt legal 3e trimestre 1952.".

One of the most important works of modernist literature, Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot is a play in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait for the arrival of someone named Godot who never arrives, and while waiting they engage in a variety of discussions and encounter several other characters.