A TRILOGY MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA by O'Neill, Eugene - 1931

Horace Liveright, January 1931. Hardcover. Acceptable.

NY, Liveright, 1931. Hard Cover. 256 p.; 21.5 cm. The three plays of the trilogy place the Greek Orestaia theme in the post-Civil War United States. "Ninth printing." Stock# 32,604. Vg,blue boards, ink owner's inscr./ no dj.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1931. 256 pages, spine and board extremities bumped and rubbed, former owner's name stamp on front free endpaper, endpapers and pages lightly toned, good reading copy.. Hb.. G+/No DJ.

UsedGood. Fifth Printing, November 1931. Harcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on cover and faded gilt on spine. Some fraying near the spine. Edge tanning. Freshly cut pages. Pages are clean and unmarked. Overall, good copy

256 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and faux gilt signature to cover with green edge ruled decoration in original pictorial jacket. Ninth printing. Mourning Becomes Electra, trilogy of plays by Eugene O Neill, produced and published in 1931. The trilogy, consisting of Homecoming (four acts), The Hunted (five acts), and The Haunted (four acts), was modeled on the Oresteia trilogy of Aeschylus and represents O Neill s most complete use of Greek forms, themes, and characters. O Neill set his trilogy in the New England of the American Civil War period. Condition: Spine dulled, covers lightly rubbed and soiled. Jacket price clipped, corners, spine ends chipped, 1/2" x 1" chip at back head edge, spine age toned else very good in like jacket.

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1932. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1932. First Edition. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with heavy foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have been moderately rub worn, with noticeable shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a little frayed and spine ends are crushed, with small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1931. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Second printing, November, 1931".Gold-and pale-blue stamped blue cloth, dulled spine. Inked name FEP, clean text. Usual age-toned paper. 6543 shelf

New York: Horace Liveright, Inc.. 256pp. Green cloth hard cover with gilt titles. Minimal abrasions to the cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. E . Near Fine. Hardcover. Second Printing.. 1931.

New York: Horace Liveright, Inc., 1931. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Sixth Printing.. New York: Horace Liveright, Inc., 1931. Sixth Printing. Very Good/No Dustjacket. Clean green cloth boards (three very small faint spots on cover) with gold author's signature on front board, gold lettering on spine. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. A little wear at top & bottom of spine. Decorated endpapers. Small P/O name on half-title. 256 pgs. 8vo. Play..

Horace Liveright, 1931. Hardcover. Good. 1931. Sixth Printing. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Moderate tanning to pages with pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and visible tanning to text block edges. Boards have minor rubbing and visible bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and heavier tanning to spine as well.

NY: Putnam, 1989. FINE condition in FINE covers. NY. Putnam. SOFTCOVER. 1989. UNCORRECTED ADVANCE READING copy as issued by publisher for the hardcover edition, February 1989. AS NEW, bound in dust jacket image cobalt-blue stiff paper wraps. Square and tight, UNREAD, NO spine crease. Stored in Archival sleeve.. Uncorrected Proof. Soft Cover. Fine/Fine Original Wraps.

NY: Hyperion, 1993. FINE condition in FINE covers. NY. Hyperion. SOFTCOVER. 1993. UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF as issued by pubisher for the hardcover edition, Spring 1993. AS NEW, bound in dust jacket image stiff paper wraps. Square and tight, UNREAD, NO spine crease. Very thin light rub top of cover, see image, else FINE. Sixth in the series featuring Dave Robicheaux. Stored in Archival sleeve.. Uncorrected Proof. Soft Cover. Fine/Fine Original Wraps.

NY: Arbor House, 1988. FINE condition in FINE covers. NY. Arbor House. SOFTCOVER. 1988. UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOFS as issued by publisher for the hardcover edition, April 1988. AS NEW, bound in red stiff paper wraps. Square and tight, UNREAD, NO spine crease. Author's first novel. Features LAPD Detective Jack Gold. Stored in Archival sleeve.. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Fine/Fine Original Wraps.

New York: Farber Brothers, 1941. First Edition, First Printing. Staplebound Wraps. Near Fine. 47 pp. primarily illus. 31 cm. Folio. Softcover. Staplebound stiff wraps in shiny silver and aqua, lettering in black, watercolor decorations to upper cover. [Title from cover]. Book Condition: Near fine with bits of salt and pepper wear to extremities. A very handsome copy. The original Krome Kraft product catalog with a profusion of half-tone illustrations, depicting hundreds of named and numbered Krome Kraft pieces in all their chromium plated hollowware glory. This product catalog is further distinguished by a constant stream of flowery prose: "Make drinking a joy! Make hospitality a delight! Welcome becomes double welcome when offered in these sparkling hostess sets of fine glass and finest quality Chromium Plate." Lacking any laid-in price lists but otherwise an exhaustive survey of the Krome Kraft product line from the days when they manufactured at the factory on 15 Crosby Street in New York City… Read More

016MacLeod, Charlotte. THE RECYCLED CITIZEN, by popular Canadian author Charlotte MacLeod. Mysterious Press ISBN 96187-2.1988. Published January 21, 1988. Softcover. Advance Uncorrected Proof. 199 numbered pages. Signed." The reigning queen of the whimsical whodunit brings back amateur sleuth Sarah Kelling and her art detective husband, Max Bittersohn, in this tasty mystery involving a black-tie charity auction, scandal, and more than one murder." Stated First Printing January, 1988. Number line 1090807060504030201 . Flat-Signed by the author on title page. Used VG Condition.

London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, 1989 UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF BOUND COPY for the cased and paperback editions (actually copied by Faber from corrected page proofs). Prepublication first edition. [Probable publication date: 18 September 1989.] 55pp. Green soft cover. Clean text pages. "Wolfwatching" was Hughes' 14th collection of poetry - he digs deeply into his own childhood and his family history, as well as writing about nature's violence and the meaning he finds in it. Included in the collection is the poem "The Black Rhino" written for the purpose of raising funds to save this endangered animal. The Library Journal considered reading Wolfwatching was "like visiting a zoo envisioned by Hieronymus Bosch: we're caught between fright and fascination". He was married to the American poet Sylvia Plath until her death in 1963. Ted Hughes is considered one of England's finest modern poets - winning the Whitbread Book of the Year in two… Read More

London, Hutchinson, 1969. 1st edition. Uncorrected proof copy on proofing paper and the property of the publisher. Provisional price 27/6. Provisional date 3rd March 1969. Second book in Douglas Reeman's new Richard Bolitho series. Map of the Mediterranean Sea inside front and rear boards. In paper covers, slightly soiled and with spine slightly pulled at top left, otherwise in very good condition.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Unrevised, Uncorrected Proofs in plain, mustard-yellow wrappers. Kincaid's first book, a collection of short stories. Uncommon in this format, and in excellent condition other than what was done to it in FSG's mailroom: a small photocopy of the dustjacket copy proof, with ISBN, publication date, and price, was taped to the inner front cover. Once FSG would get these proofs from Crane Duplicating Service, they'd put an ink stamp on the cover in which they would fill in the price and publication date, which they did here in red ballpoint pen. A couple of small smudges to the rear cover and light toning to the edges, else Fine. In stock, ready to ship now from Evanston, IL!

Fine copy of the "Advance Uncorrected Bound Manuscript" in wrappers of this acclaimed biblio-mystery. Translated by Lucia Graves.

New York: Random House, 1994. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Near Fine, front cover crease (visible only on inside)..1st page excised by publisher, as with all other copies of this advance edition.. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Uncorrected Proof.