Samuel Beckett

An inscribed first edition in English (translated by the author), of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, preceding the British edition.

• Samuel Beckett (Irish).
• New York: Grove Press, (1954).
• Octavo.
• Pagination irregular, [vii] pages.; 7-60 ff. (numbered on left page); [5] pages.
• Illustrated with portrait and three leaves of stills from the stage production.
• Inscribed by Beckett to another writer: "for Dan Pope from Sam Beckett".
• Additionally signed by Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset. 
• In dustwrapper, housed in a quarter morocco and cloth clamshell case.

Probably the scarcest and most preferred issue of the Nobel Prize winner's most famous title, one of the great works of the world stage. A major innovation in modern drama, possibly the most important play of the 20th Century, and certainly the first theatrical success of the Theatre of the Absurd.