Samuel. En attendant Godot. Pièce en deux actes.

by BECKETT

£15,000 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd · No longer available

Alan Schneider’s First Encounter with Godot BECKETT, Samuel. En attendant Godot. Pièce en deux actes. Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit . 1952. 8vo. Publisher’s wrappers printed in black and blue, publisher’s advertisements to rear cover; pp. 163, [1], two photographic plates from the first production of the play tipped in between pp. 48–9 and pp. 144–5; spine cocked, paper uniformly toned, tiny burn hole to upper corner of p. 63, tear and associated creasing to upper edge of pp. 31– 32; small losses to corners of wrappers, short splits to spine at foot, a few small marks to upper wrapper, some slight creasing, small nick to upper wrapper at foot; a good copy; ownership inscription of Alan Schneider to first blank page, title-page inscribed ‘For Alan and Jean, with love from Sam’, dated Paris, July 1972. Alan Schneider’s copy of the uncommon 1954 second issue of En attendant Godot , presented in 1972 to Schneider – Beckett’s friend and the director of the earliest performances of Godot in the United States – and his wife Jean, likely inscribed during Schneider’s preparations for the Samuel Beckett Festival at Lincoln Center that November. Samuel Beckett had been experimenting with dramatic writing as early as 1937. The fragment Human Wishes , based on the final years of his beloved Samuel Johnson, and the full-length Eleutheria (1947), remained unperformed and unpublished for decades. En attendant Godot , written between October 1948 and January 1949 – between Malone meurt and L’

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