Waiting for Godot - a tragicomedy in two acts.
by BECKETT, Samuel
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- first
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About This Item
Faber and Faber, London., 1956. First U.K. edition. Octavo. 94 pages. Tipped in is the small printed slip regarding the requirements of the Lord Chamberlain.Small address label on front free endpaper. Some spotting to endpapers. Very good in very good, very slightly nicked dustwrapper with some rubbing to edges.
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
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BECKETTS014791
- Title
- Waiting for Godot - a tragicomedy in two acts.
- Author
- BECKETT, Samuel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber, London.
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- irish nobel prize
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...