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Lot n° 1289

BECKETT, Samuel.

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Waiting for Godot. Play in two acts. Paris, Éditions de Minuit, 1952. In-8 [186 x 118] of 163 pp, (2 ff.) : paperback, in modern grey cloth slipcase. First edition. The emblematic play of the theater of the absurd suddenly made its author famous in 1953, date of the creation at the Théâtre de Babylone, in a staging by Roger Blin. Nice copy as issued: it is enriched with a reproduction of a portrait of the author, signed. In French in the text, Paris, BN, 1990, nº 395.