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 endpaperswith neat ownership name ,otherwise a nice bright copy.

First issue with the publisher advertisements for their James Joyce titles. 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 commented:

‘Waiting for Godot jettisons everything by which we recognise theatre. It arrives at the custom-house, as it were, with no luggage, no passport, and nothing to declare; yet it gets through, as might a pilgrim from Mars.’