A Collection on the Works of Eugene O'Neill
Published by Horace Liveright; Random House; Yale University Press; McGraw-Hill Book Company 1929-1973, New York; New Haven, 1929
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
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A smart collection of seven volumes of work by and on American playwright Eugene O'Neill. Seven volumes. A collection of volumes by and on the works of Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, an American playwright whose poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism. This set contains: Dynamo, 1929. First edition. A play in three acts, following a conflict between two families, the Lights and the Fifes, that is marked by their religious differences and has soured into personal hatred. A Bibliography of the Works of Eugene O'Neill, 1931. Limited to five hundred copies of which this is number one hundred and thirty-three. Illustrated with a frontispiece, seven plates and numerous in-text figures. Collated complete. Written by Ralph Sanborn and Barrett H. Clark, American writers and editors. A Touch of the Poet, 1957. First edition. Intended with its sequel, More Stately Mansions, be part of a nine-play cycle entitled A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed. This work is set in the dining room of Melody's Tavern, near Boston, and centers on ageing pub owner Major Cornelius Melody. A Moon for the Misbegotten, 1952. First edition. A sequel to O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, in four acts, with the Jim Tyrone character as an older version of Jamie Tyrone. The Curse of the Begotten: A Tale of the House of O'Neill. First edition, first printing. Exploring the themes of disease, alcoholism, suicide, dissension, and unhappy death which so often occurred in the plays of O'Neill, with reference to his own life and the personal lives of his family. Written by Croswell Bowen, an American political reporter, activist journalist, and biographer. Ten "Lost" Plays by Eugene O'Neill, 1964. First edition, first printing. A collection of short plays displaying the creative mind of a young dramatist practicing his art. Eugene O'Neill and the American Critic, 1973. Second edition. A serious study of the domestic critical reception of the works of Eugene O'Neill, with a complete listing of all publication dates. Written by Jordan Y. Miller, an American literary critic. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light wear and minor rubbing to the extremities. The odd small mark to the boards with minor fading to the spines. Original dust wrappers are unclipped other than Dynamo, A Moon for the Misbegotten, and A Touch of the Poet which have been price-clipped. Wrappers are smart with light wear and minor chipping to the extremities. Light sunning to the spines with the odd small mark to the panels. The odd small closed tear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light age toning to the endpapers. Very Good.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- A Collection on the Works of Eugene O'Neill
- Author
- Eugene O'Neill; Various
- Publisher
- Horace Liveright; Random House; Yale University Press; McGraw-Hill Book Company 1929-1973, New York; New Haven
- Publication year
- 1929
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Book Type
- book
- Binding
- Cloth
- Illustrator
- None
- Edition
- First edition.
- Item weight
- 2 kilograms
- Dimensions
- 8.5" by 5.5"; 9" by 6"
- Seller catalogs
- Literary Criticism
Rooke Books PBFA
Bath, United Kingdom
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