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Mourning Becomes Electra: A Trilogy (in oriignal dust jacket)
by Eugene O'Neill
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/near fine
- Seller
-
Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Horace Liveright, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First edition (no statement as is correct). Hardcover on green cloth stamped in light blue and with gilt facsimile author signature front cover. Illustrated endpapers. 256 pp. A tight, near fine example, bit of light spotting lower front cover. in the original Robert Edmund Jones designed dust jacket, near fine, spine and outer edges a touch toned. Trilogy cycle of O'Neill plays: "Homecoming", "The Hunted" and "The Haunted", a retelling of the ancient Greek Orestia by Aeschylus. The characters parallel those of the original work. The statgeplay of the trilogy debuted on Broadway in Octover, 1931 and ran for 150 performances. It was the basis for the 1947 film starring Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave, and Raymond Massey as well as for a 1967 opera by Martin David Levy.
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- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E24473
- Title
- Mourning Becomes Electra: A Trilogy (in oriignal dust jacket)
- Author
- Eugene O'Neill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Horace Liveright
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- theater, theatre, plays, stage, broadway, orestia, greek, agamemnon
- Bookseller catalogs
- Theatre;
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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- Fine
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Facsimile
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- Jacket
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