Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Beckett, Samuel
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- GD/VG/ND
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1990* Publisher: Faber & Faber.* Binding and cover condition: Illustrated soft card covers. B/w line drawing with orange, green and brown patterned frame. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly used. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean & crisp, tight but lightly tanned particularly to page edges and margins. This is a study copy with a number of annotations & inscriptions to 1/3 of the text mostly to Act I, (may be of interest to student). GD+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 93 pp. text.* Product Description:- Nothing happens, nobody comes,nobody goes, it is terrible was Jean Anouilly?s judgement after the first performance of Waiting for Godot. But, he went on to conclude, that evening at the Babylone in 1952 was the most important premiere put on in Paris for forty years. Nobody to whom the names of Pozzo, Lucky. Vladimir and Estragon are familiar, would now question this prescient recognition of a classic of twentieth-century European literature.* This is a NEAR VG copy of the 1st./1st. with minimal shelf wear, annotations & light tanning reducing it to GD.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5639
- Title
- Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
- Author
- Beckett, Samuel
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - GD/VG/ND
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- Reprint 1990
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London UK 94
- Date Published
- 1990-01-01
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- Reprint
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