ENDGAME, A Play in one Act; followed by ACT WITHOUT WORDS, A Mime for one Player.

First UK edition, first printing. Original brown cloth with blue titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with a previous owner's name and date, and red circular sticker to the front endpaper, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the very good, lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has a scuff to the bottom of the spine. Not price-clipped (10s 6d net to the lower front flap).

The original French version of Beckett's second full-length play was premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 3 April, 1957, directed by Roger Blin with Blin himself playing Hamm and Jean Martin as Clov. The author's own English translation was first performed at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York in January 1958, directed by Alan Schneider, with Lester Rawlins as Hamm and Alvin Epstein as Clov, the UK premiere following on 28 October at the Royal Court, with George Devine, like Roger Blin, directing as well as playing Hamm, and Jack MacGowran as Clov. The UK edition of play was first published by Faber on April 25, 1958. (Federman and Fletcher 376.1).