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1956. London: Faber and Faber Limited. 1956. 8vo. Publisher's maize-yellow coloured cloth, lettered in red to spine, in photographic dustwrapper with a scene from the play to upper panel and a photographic portrait of Beckett to lower one; pp. [viii], 9-94, complete with tipped-in Publisher's Note following the title-page to explain the textual deletions that were required by the Lord Chamberlain; externally near fine with extremely faint foxing to foreedge of book block with upper edge toned, internally fresh minus offsetting from pastedown, rubbbing to spine ends and forecorners and with small nicking to head and heel of dust jacket; otherwise very good copy. First UK edition of one of the most influential plays in modern drama. Waiting for Godot was first published in French, as "En attendant Godot", by Les Editions De Minuit in Paris in 1952, three months before the play's debut performance. It was then published in English, translated by Beckett himself, in the U.S., in…

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.