Collected Shorter Plays, The – Samuel Beckett
NF Paperback

Description

For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, first printing Paperback Edition of The Collected Shorter Plays by Samuel Beckett.  First Grove Press Edition stated, 1984 Grove Press. First Printing with no subsequent printing.

The exterior of the paperback edition is in Near Fine condition, with clean, lightly rubbed front cover with no creases, clean page blocks, no spine tilt, lightly rubbed spine ends, and mild edge and corner wear.

The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with the ghost of an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or  signs of ownership inside. The rear end paper and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.

Samuel Beckett, the great minimalist master and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, produced some of his most widely praised work for the stage in the form of the short play. This complete and definitive collection of twenty-five plays and “playlets” includes Beckett’s celebrated Krapp’s Last Tape, Embers, Cascando, Play, Eh Joe, Not I, and Footfalls, as well as his mimes, all his radio and television plays, his screenplay for Film, his adaptation of Robert Pinget’s The Old Tune, and the more recent Catastrophe, What Where, Quad, and Night and Dreams.

Paperback volume ships promptly in a manila envelope with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.