BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). Come and Go. Dramaticule. London: Calder & Boyars, 1967. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 77 of 100 copies SIGNED BY BECKETT.
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BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). Come and Go. Dramaticule. London: Calder & Boyars, 1967.
8vo. Photographic illustrations. Original gilt-lettered buckram; original board slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 77 of 100 copies SIGNED BY BECKETT. Beckett's Come and Go, considered to be one of his most "perfect" plays, varies between 121 and 127 words, and is accompanied by exacting and precise stage directions. The photographs were taken by Ilse Buhs of Deryk Mendel's Berlin production featuring Lieselotte Rau, Charlotte Foeres, and Sibylle Gilles, as staged at the Schiller Theater, January 1966. See Federman & Fletcher 46 (the present copy with a slight variation to the wording in the colophon and in a variant binding, both unrecorded).
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