Taken from inside dust cover: "In Happy Days, Samuel Beckett's first full-length play since Endgame, things are stripped once again to their barest essentials. There are only two characters: Winnie, a woman of about fifty, and Willie, a man of about sixty. In the first act Winnie is buried up to her waist in a mound of earth, but still has the use of her arms and a few earthly possessions - a toothbrush, tube of toothpaste, small mirror, revolver, handkerchief, spectacles; in the second act she is imbedded up to her neck and can only move her eyes. Willie lives and moves - on all fours - behind the mound, appearing intermittently and replying only occasionally to Winnie's long monologue". First published in 1961 in the USA, and the first performance of Happy Days was given on 17th September 1961 in New York, directed by Alan Schneider. This is a First British Edition, published in 1962 and is a rare find. Fair (approaching Good) condition overall. Red cloth boards with dust jacket d