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Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett, 1954
BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). Waiting for Godot. New York: Grove Press, 1954.

First English-language edition of Beckett's masterpiece, inscribed: "for / Jean-Jacque Fliat / with all good wishes / Samuel Beckett / Paris / May 1982." Waiting for Godot would not only define the Theater of the Absurd but it would also play a large role in Beckett being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1969.

Octavo. Original cloth; pictorial jacket (very slight edgwear, a little toning to spine panel). Provenance: Jean-Jacque Fliat (inscription) – Leslie Barrette (bookplate).
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