(Cohan, George M.), (Eugene O'Neill)

"Broadway Boy" (about Cohan's life and review of performance in "Ah! Wilderness" with Cover Portrait of Cohan

0. 1st Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Near fine (light wear to spine edge) com0lete issue dated October 9, 1933. Over 4 columns, the article, "Broadway Boy", appears in the "Theater" section on George Cohan's performance of the lead in "Ah! Wilderness". Cover portrait of Cohan, photo of O'Neill inside. Rare item. Near Fine.

Library Books / Clayton Fine BooksProfessional seller

Book number: dn572

Eugene O'Neill [Starring John Abbott, Craighall Sherry, Enid Price Hill, John Ford, Waldo Wright, Basil Gignam in]

Mourning Becomes Electra The Westminster Theatre Programme 1937

London, The Westminster Theatre, 1937. First Edition. Paperback. offsettingf to cover Very Good.

The Victoria BookshopProfessional seller

Book number: 500035625

Keywords: THEATRE

AESCHYLUS, SOPOCLES, EURIPIDES, ARISTOPHANES (AUTHORS); OATES, WHITNEY J.; O'NEILL JR., EUGENE (EDITORS)

Seven Famous Greek Plays (Modern Library #158. 2)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1952]. Hardcover. A selection of seven notable plays from ancient Greece. Includes Agamemnon and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus; Oedipus the King and Antigone by Sophocles; Medea and Alcestis by Euripides and The Frogs by Aristophanes. Edited, with introductions and notes by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. Volume wrapped in grey & tan jacket variant. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 365 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1952 (though 1950 date appears in book). ML #158.2. --- A well-preserved copy: clean, tightly-bound and with unmarked interior but with a little age-toning to leaves & prior owner's inked name to front free endpaper. Price-clipped dust jacket with a darkened spine, a few small tears and chafing to edges, otherwise intact and wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xxvi, 446, (6, ads) pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 87207

Keywords: >>Modern Library Editions >>Drama/Theatre; Movies/Tv >>Greek & Roman Classics

AESCHYLUS, SOPOCLES, EURIPIDES, ARISTOPHANES (AUTHORS); OATES, WHITNEY J.; O'NEILL JR., EUGENE (EDITORS)

Seven Famous Greek Plays (Modern Library #158. 2)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1966]. Hardcover. A selection of seven notable plays from ancient Greece. Includes Agamemnon and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus; Oedipus the King and Antigone by Sophocles; Medea and Alcestis by Euripides and The Frogs by Aristophanes. Edited, with introductions and notes by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. Volume wrapped in blue, red & grey variant jacket. --- In Toledano spine 11 / rust cloth / ML hex torchbearer device blindstamped to front cover / gilt-stamped spine titling & torchbearer / tan Kent endpapers / jacket style l, verso blank. Likely published c.1966 (though 1950 date appears in book). ML #158.2. --- A clean, tightly-bound, bright copy lacking apparent damages. Price-clipped dust jacket with chipping, small tears along edges and some rubbing, else bright, intact and in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xxvi, 446, [8, ads] pages. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 89003

Keywords: >>Modern Library Editions >>Drama/Theatre; Movies/Tv >>Greek & Roman Classics

Eugene O'Neill

Beyond the Horizon and Gold; All God&Apos;S Chillun Got Wings, Desire Under the Elms and Welded

London, Jonathan Cape, 1924-1925 . First edition. Cloth. A pair of first editions comprised of the theatrical works of Eugene O'Neill. First edition, in the original publisher's blue cloth binding. Written by American playwright, Eugene O'Neill, who was known for his poetically titled plays, and for introducing realism in theatre to the US. This collection is comprised of 'Beyond the Horizon' and 'Gold' in the 1924 work, and 'All God's Chillun Got Wings', 'Desire Under the Elms' and 'Welded', in the 1925 work. These were all full-length plays, with themes of greek tragedy, english countryside and spiritualism. In the original publisher's blue cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with light rubbing and the occasional mark to the boards, causing a touch of discolouration. Fading to the spine and darkening to spine label. Light bumping to the extremities. Odd mark to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 877Q27

Catalogue: Plays

Keywords: plays eugene o'neill collection first edition eugene o'neill None

Eugene O'Neill; Donald Gallup

The Calms of Capricorn

New Haven and New York, Ticknor and Fields, 1982 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this posthumously published play from Eugene O'Neill, expanded into a complete play by Donald Gallup from O'Neill's notes. With a signed presentation inscription from Gallup. The first edition, first printing.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.A posthumously published play from acclaimed American playwright Eugene O'Neill, developed from O'Neill's 'scenario' and rough outline by noted bibliographer, editor and art and book collector Donald C. Gallup.With a presentation inscription from Gallup to the front free endpaper, reading 'For M. G. W. another tome for the (groaning) shelf, D.C.G. 24 May 1982&apos. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Light chipping to dust wrapper back strip head, otherwise excellent. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 951F16

Catalogue: Plays

Keywords: Eugene O'Neill Long Day's Journey into Night Pulitzer Prize for Drama Donald Gallup Long Day's Journey into Night None

Eugene O'Neill; Various

A Collection on the Works of Eugene O&Apos;Neill

New York; New Haven, Horace Liveright; Random House; Yale University Press; McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1929-1973. First edition. Cloth. 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 . Ill.: None. Very Good/Very Good.

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 952T19

Catalogue: Plays

Keywords: O'Neill Dynamo Bibliography Curse Dynamo Lost Critic None

Eugene O'Neill

Desire Under the Elms

New York, Boni & Liveright, 1925 . First edition. Cloth. Costume and set designer Frank Poole Bevan's own copy of the first separate edition of Eugene O'Neill's New England-set play. The first separate edition of this play, the 'Provincetown-Greenwhich Plays' edition.O'Neill's play was inspired by the myth of Phaedra, Hippolytus, and Theseus, and presents an attempt to adapt the elements and themes of Greek tragedy to a rural New England setting.With the inscription of Fr. Pool Bevan to the front free endpaper. Frank Poole Bevan was an American costume and set designer renowned for his contributions to theatre design and education. He joined the Yale School of Drama as a faculty member in the 1930s, where he served as a professor of theatrical design until his retirement in 1971.Working in the theatrical scene of New York in the same time period, it is possible that Bevan and O'Neill new one another. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bump and small closed tear to back strip tail, otherwise externally excellent. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 951F38

Catalogue: Plays

Keywords: long day's journey into night Eugene O'Neill Frank Poole Bevan Eugene O'Neill None

Eugene G. O'Neill

The Emperor Jones, Diff&Apos;Rent, the Straw

New York, Boni and Liveright, 1921. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of plays from American writer Eugene Gladstone O'Neill. First edition, binding A with middle initial G in author's name on spine and upper cover. A collection of the early plays 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. Containing: The Emperor Jones, a 1920 tragic play that tells the tale of Brutus Jones, a resourceful, self-assured African American and a former Pullman porter, who kills another black man in a dice game. Diff'rent, a 1921 two-act tragedy concerning a woman who rejects her fiancée over a single act of infidelity and later becomes engaged to another man who turns out to have poor character. The Straw, a 1919 three act play following characters Eileen Carmody and Stephen Murray during their time at Hill Farm Sanatorium. In the original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, very smart with light wear to the extremities and fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with minor age toning to the endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 952T18

Catalogue: Plays

Keywords: Emperor Jones Diff'rent Straw Jones None