BECKETT, SAMUEL. En Attendant Godot. Piece en deux actes. [Paris]: Les Editions de Minuit 1952. 12mo, original printed wrappers, unopened, plain tissue outer wrapper (bit darkened at spine), half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 35 LARGE-PAPGER COPIES ON VÉLIN SUPÉRIEUR (this no. 14) of an edition of 2500, SIGNED BY BECKETT in black ink below his printed name on title-page AND ALSO INSCRIBED BY HIM in the 1970s at top of title-page in blue ink: "For William Targ With all good wishes from Samuel Beckett." Federman & Fletcher 259; Carlton Lake, No Symbols Where None Intended (Austin: University of Texas, 1984), no. 125. A fine copy and very rare in this limitation (not in the Gilvarry collection). The first edition in English of Waiting for Godot, translated by Beckett himself, appeared two years later.

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BECKETT, SAMUEL. En Attendant Godot. Piece en deux actes. [Paris]: Les Editions de Minuit 1952. 12mo, original printed wrappers, unopened, plain tissue outer wrapper (bit darkened at spine), half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 35 LARGE-PAPGER COPIES ON VÉLIN SUPÉRIEUR (this no. 14) of an edition of 2500, SIGNED BY BECKETT in black ink below his printed name on title-page AND ALSO INSCRIBED BY HIM in the 1970s at top of title-page in blue ink: "For William Targ With all good wishes from Samuel Beckett." Federman & Fletcher 259; Carlton Lake, No Symbols Where None Intended (Austin: University of Texas, 1984), no. 125. A fine copy and very rare in this limitation (not in the Gilvarry collection). The first edition in English of Waiting for Godot, translated by Beckett himself, appeared two years later.

Provenance:
1. Purchased by William Targ (editor at Putnam's at the time) from House of El Dieff, Inc. in the mid-1970s ($3000, before inscription).