Endgame

Previous owner's name in pencil. Pencil underlinging and marginalia on many pages. New Zealand bookseller's rubber stamp on front endpaper. 25mm tears at corner of dust-jacket and at head of dust-jacket spine. 8mm chips at ends of dust-jacket spine. Some foxing and fading to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First edition in English. 60 pages. Red cloth boards with blue lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 203 x 118mm. A play. Translated from the French "Fin de Partie" by the author. "Two men, one of them blind, with a numb and inactive horror watch the universe freeze into immobility. But it is not all terror. There is love, remembered happiness, an odd courtesy, a peculiar precision and deliberation that show that man may remain undemoralised even if defeated, poetrt, and perhaps a hint of salvation." - from dust-jacket blurb.

Product Info

Publisher: Faber and Faber

Year: (1962)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

Seller Info

RenaissanceBooks

Address: PO Box 335 Dunedin, Not Required

Website: https://renaissancebooks.co.nz

Country: New Zealand