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BECKETT (SAMUEL) Marked-up copy of En attendant Godot, ninth edition, incorporating the alterations and excisions agreed by Beckett during rehearsals for the first performance, with a presentation copy of the theatre programme to Con Leventhal
27 November 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,625 inc. premium
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BECKETT (SAMUEL)
En attendant Godot ninth edition, MARKED-UP COPY INCORPORATING ALTERATIONS AND EXCISIONS AGREED BY BECKETT during rehearsals for the first performance, original wrappers, 8vo, Editions de Minuit, 1953; together with the programme for an early performance at the Théâtre de Babylone, SIGNED BY BECKETT ("Sam") below his photograph and inscribed to his close friend Con [Leventhal], Paris, "Sylvester" [31 December] 1953, also signed by Blin (director), Martin (Lucky), and Latour (Estragon), decorated wrappers, 16mo, Paris, 1953 (2)
Footnotes
'ORDURE! ARCHITECTE!' -- The annotations in this copy of En attendant Godot, made in a neat, seemingly female French, hand, correspond (in one instance at least, to the famous exchange of insults culminating in 'Architecte!') to those in Beckett's own marked-up rehearsal copy, now held among his papers at Trinity College, Dublin (TCD MS 10495). Both book and programme belong to the family of Marion Leigh, partner of Beckett's close friend A.J. 'Con' Leventhal (see further of his papers, sold in these rooms, lot 205, 20 June 2018).





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