BECKETT, Samuel Barclay (1906-1989). Waiting for Godot. Tragicomedy in 2 Acts . New York: H. Wolff for Grove Press, 1954. 8° (209 x 118mm). 4 pages of monochrome photographic illustrations. (Some very light browning to margins.) Original black cloth, titled in blind across the boards and spine, spine lettered in silver and gold, dustwrapper (dustwrapper light spotted and marked, spine darkened, extremities lightly rubbed and chipped). Provenance : Jack Garfein (b. 1930, inscription on title in Beckett's hand 'For Jack , affectionately , from Sam ,20·11·89!'). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY BECKETT TO THE ACTOR AND DIRECTOR JACK GARFEIN. Jack Garfein studied at the New School for Social Research, before embarking on a career as a cinema director (directing the films The Strange One , 1957 and Something Wild , 1961), theatre director and actor, and educator at both the Actor's Studio and Studio Jack Garfein. Garfein has staged productions of Beckett's works in both America and Europe, including an Alan Schneider-directed Beckett triple-bill of 'Ohio Impromptu', 'Catastrophe', and 'What Where' at New York's Harold Clurman Theatre in 1983 and a series of works by Beckett at New York's Samuel Beckett Theatre including Endgame , All Strange Away , and Krapp's Last Tape . For a series of letters from Beckett to Garfein, see lot 44. Davis, Bryer, Friedman and Hoy, 54A1; No Symbols Where None Intended 131.
BECKETT, Samuel Barclay (1906-1989). Waiting for Godot. Tragicomedy in 2 Acts . New York: H. Wolff for Grove Press, 1954. 8° (209 x 118mm). 4 pages of monochrome photographic illustrations. (Some very light browning to margins.) Original black cloth, titled in blind across the boards and spine, spine lettered in silver and gold, dustwrapper (dustwrapper light spotted and marked, spine darkened, extremities lightly rubbed and chipped). Provenance : Jack Garfein (b. 1930, inscription on title in Beckett's hand 'For Jack , affectionately , from Sam ,20·11·89!'). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY BECKETT TO THE ACTOR AND DIRECTOR JACK GARFEIN. Jack Garfein studied at the New School for Social Research, before embarking on a career as a cinema director (directing the films The Strange One , 1957 and Something Wild , 1961), theatre director and actor, and educator at both the Actor's Studio and Studio Jack Garfein. Garfein has staged productions of Beckett's works in both America and Europe, including an Alan Schneider-directed Beckett triple-bill of 'Ohio Impromptu', 'Catastrophe', and 'What Where' at New York's Harold Clurman Theatre in 1983 and a series of works by Beckett at New York's Samuel Beckett Theatre including Endgame , All Strange Away , and Krapp's Last Tape . For a series of letters from Beckett to Garfein, see lot 44. Davis, Bryer, Friedman and Hoy, 54A1; No Symbols Where None Intended 131.
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