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Lot 185
Sale 1262 - Summer Reading: 20th Century Literature and Biography from a Private Collection
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Jul 6, 2023
Lots Close
Jul 26, 2023
Timed Online / Chicago
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300
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$126
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Lot Description
O’NEILL, Eugene (1888-1953). Mourning Becomes Electra. New York: Horace Liveright, Inc., 1931.
8vo. Original boards (covers detaching); publisher’s printed dust jacket (spine sunned, some minor chipping and soiling).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of O’Neill’s retelling of Oresteia by Aeschylus, which premiered on Broadway on 26 October 1931 at the Guild Theatre.
[With]: O’NEILL. The Moon of the Caribbees and Six Other Plays of the Sea. New York: The Modern Library, 1923. 8vo. Original roan.