A first edition in English of Beckett's influential and enigmatic "tragicomedy in two acts."<ul><li>Samuel Beckett (Irish).</li><li>New York: Grove Press, 1954.</li><li>60 pages.</li><li>Bound in the original blind-stamped black cloth with silver and gilt lettering to spine, in original unclipped ($4.75) black-and-white photographic dust jacket designed by Marshall Lee, with red endpapers, Grove Press postcard laid in.</li></ul> The defining drama of the twentieth century and Beckett's masterpiece; written in French, like all of Beckett's post-World War II works, and translated by himself into the English of this edition. Powerful, frustrating, agitating and allowing for endless allegorical interpretations, the text often bewilders, always disturbs, but never alienates. Vladimir and Estragon wait in their obscure holding place, captives of an unseen tormentor or their own self-inflicted tragedy of repetition, and the audience waits with them.

Waiting for Godot

An inscribed <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> in English (translated by the author), of Waiting for Godot by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=samuel%20beckett&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Samuel Beckett</a>, preceding the British edition.<ul><li>Samuel Beckett (Irish).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Grove Press,&nbsp;(1954).</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Pagination irregular, [vii] pages.; 7-60 ff. (numbered on left page); [5] pages.</li><li>Illustrated with portrait and three leaves of stills from the stage production.</li><li>Inscribed by Beckett to another writer: "for Dan Pope from Sam Beckett".</li><li>Additionally signed by Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset.&nbsp;</li><li>In dustwrapper, housed in a quarter morocco and cloth clamshell case.</li></ul> 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.

Waiting for Godot Inscribed First Edition in English

Signed limited-edition copy of Beckett's Nohow On with illustrations by Ryman.<ul><li>Samuel Beckett (Irish).</li><li>Robert Ryman (American).&nbsp;</li><li>New York:&nbsp;The Limited Editions Club,&nbsp;1989.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Illustrated with 6 original aquatint etchings by Robert Ryman.</li><li>Edition limited to 550 numbered copies signed by Beckett and Ryman.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in original full black morocco and includes a clamshell case.</li></ul>

Nohow On

A first-edition copy of Ill Seen Ill Said, which has been inscribed by the author.<ul><li>Samuel Beckett (Irish).</li><li>New York: Grove Press, 1981.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Inscribed by the author to his cousin and his partner: "For John and Ruth, with much love from Sam. Paris, 18.4.82."</li><li>Translated from French by the author.</li><li>Bound in publisher's black and white cloth-covered boards.</li></ul>

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