Waiting for Godot. London: Faber & Faber, 1956. First U.K. Edition, First Issue. With publisher’s note tipped-in. Pp, 94. Yellow cloth boards with title in red with original pictorial dust jacket. Off-setting to endpapers, neat ownership annotations to pages 12/12 and 16/17. Minor wear to edges of jacket.

First issue with the publisher advertisements for their James Joyce titles to rear flap of jacket. A revised and unexpurgated edition was published by Faber in 1965.

Waiting for Godot – which has been famously described as a play in which nothing happens twice– scarcely seems recognisable as theatre at all. One memorable critical review by Benedict Nightingale commented:

“A cross-section of fallible humanity waiting in an infinitely insecure world for an infinitely improbable salvation”

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