Waiting for Godot : a tragicomedy in two acts
by Beckett, Samuel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. (1965). Hardcover. School library rubber stamps on front endpaper. No other library markings. Small knock to lower corner of front board. Some wear to corners of dust-jacket and ends of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; Revised edition. "This revised and unexpurgated edition first published mcmlxv". 94, [2 (blank)] pages. Pale yellow cloth boards with crimson lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 203 x 119mm. "The author has made a number of revisions to the text of 'Waiting for Godot' since it was first published and this new edition, complete and unexpurgated, has been authorized by Mr Beckett as definitive." - from dust-jacket blurb. .
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24071
- Title
- Waiting for Godot : a tragicomedy in two acts
- Author
- Beckett, Samuel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1965)
- Keywords
- English Literature
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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