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FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, a handful of words to the text glossed in pencil with the French originals (by Margaret Drabble, see below), pp. 60, crown 8vo, original terracotta linen, backstrip lettered in pale blue, a few small spots to top edge, contemporary ownership inscription of Margaret Drabble to flyleaf (see below), dustjacket browned to white areas (this the version with white strip at fore-margin of front panel) with a few light marks, slightly chipped, nicked and creased at extremities, very good. The copy of author Margaret Drabble, during her undergraduate years at Newnham College, Cambridge; she had initially embarked on a career as an actor (joining the RSC upon graduation, in 1960) and was married to actor Clive Swift - into whose library this copy then passed, and whose later fame in 'Keeping Up Appearances' need not encourage any speculation as to how his on-screen wife might have pronounced the playwright's last name. Drabble's continuing interest in Beckett is evinced by her 2018 essay 'The Maternal Embrace: Samuel Beckett and His Mother May'. (Federman & Fletcher 376.1). Seller Inventory # 76833
Bibliographic Details
Title: Endgame. A Play in one Act, followed by 'Act...
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Publication Date: 1958
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