NMLP P-037255 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett · Faber and Faber (London) / Grove Press (New York) · 1954/1956

True first overall is the French Minuit 1952. The first edition in English is Grove Press 1954 (New York), which PRECEDES the UK Faber 1956 by two years — so the English-language true first is American, not British. Faber 1956 carried Lord Chamberlain-required cuts, restored only in the 1965 Faber text.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-037255 for "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-037255, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).