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O'NEILL, EUGENE. The Emperor Jones, Gold, The First Man, The Dreamy Kid. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1928.

Price: US$18.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Fifth printing of this collection of four early O'Neill plays, first published in 1925. Very good plus, with inconspicuous owner blindstamp on front endpaper and light shelfwear, lacking the dustjacket.

Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.

O'Neill, Eugene. The Works of Eugene O'Neill : The Emperor Jones, Gold, The First Man, the Dreamy Kid. Boni & Liveright, NY, 1928.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Bound in blue cloth, stamped in gold in matching dust jacket. The book and the dust jacket (save for some light wear to spine ends) looks like they were published this year. A tight, clean copy. 232 pp.

Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.

O'NEILL, Eugene. Plays: The Emperor Jones, Gold, "The First Man," The Dreamy Kid. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1928.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Fifth printing. Page toning, slight edgewear, and previous owner name on the front free endpaper else near fine in a very good dustwrapper with chips, tears, and rubbing.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Eugene O'Neill. The Emperor Jones, Gold etc. Boni & Liveright, 1928.

Price: US$25.99 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1928. Fourth printing. 252 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Tape repairs to hinges. A previous owner's name to front pastedown and front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Some additional mild marks and staining.

Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom

O'Neill, Eugene; King, Alexander [Illustrator]. The Emperor Jones. Boni & Liveright, 1928.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Number 558 of 775 copies, signed by O'Neill on the limitation page. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Patterned paper boards are bright and colorful. Text and images unmarked. No dust jacket. The slipcase has a 1.5" piece out at the top and bottom of the open edge, some splits, scuffs and edgewear. Paper panel shows some age toning. 4to. 90pp.

Seller: Chaparral Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

O'Neill, Eugene. THE EMPEROR JONES. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1928.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: New York:Boni and Liveright. 1928. Signed limited edition, copy no. 181 of 775 copies, signed and numbered by O'Neill on the limitation page. 90pp. Illustrated by Alexander King, Hardcover. Missing slip case and dust jacket.  Book in very good condition, with colors to boards and gilt on spine strip still bright. Internally clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. A very good, bright copy.

Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.

Eugene O'Neill. The Emperor Jones. Boni & Liveright, 1928.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: #412/775cc, signed by the playwright. Illustrated by Alexander King. bottom edges of covers shelfworn. Bookplate inside front cover. Dust jacket shelfworn and chipped along the edges.

Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

O'NEILL, Eugene. The Emperor Jones. Boni and Liveright, 1928.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1928 Boni and Liveright O'neill signed limited edition (#578 0f 775) with illustrations by ALexander King. In jacket and shop worn slipcase (missing top panel). From the library of actor Jean Hersholt with his book plate to front paste down. Tight binding text unmarked. oversized and overweight. D55 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal

Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.

O'Neill, Eugene; Illustrated by Alexander King. The Emperor Jones. Boni & Liveright, 1928.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: #164/ 775 copies signed by Eugene O'Neill; Signed by Author

Seller: Books End Bookshop, Syracuse, NY, U.S.A.

OÕNEILL, EUGENE.. The Emperor Jones. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928, 1928.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: Special edition; illustrated by Alexander King; one of 750 numbered copies signed by O'Neill. Near fine in a very good dust jacket; in a cracked, very good, but worn publisher's slipcase. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.

Eugene O'Neill. The Emperor Jones. Boni and Liveright: New York, 1928.

Price: US$293.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: This is number 447 of a limited edition of 775 copies. Eugene O'Neill's signature is beneath this number. There are eight illustrations by Alexander King. The book, with rough cut pages with a bit of age toning at the edges, is tight, bright, and clean, free of names and markings. The inside pages are fine. There is light shelf wear at the edges and wear at the extremities. The spine ends are lightly bumped with a bit of rubbing. There is no slip case.

Seller: George Kent, Bookseller, Silverhill, AL, U.S.A.

O'Neill, Eugene. The Emperor Jones.. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1928.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Description: Signed limited first edition, one of 750 examples, this is number 472. Signed by Eugene O'Neill.ÂIllustrated by Alexander King. In fine condition. Brutus Jones, a former Pullman car porter wanted in the United States on two murder charges, has established himself as the self-proclaimed ruler of a West Indian island. Warned that his subjects are about to rebel, he flees to the jungle â€" sick with fright â€" where he is plagued by ghosts of the men he has murdered and haunted by visions of injustices done to his race. Powerful scenes, punctuated by beating tom-toms, suggest Jones's panic as he flees his angry countrymen and his own personal demons. First produced in 1920, The Emperor Jones helped establish O'Neill's reputation as one of America's most important dramatists. Bold and expressionistic, the play was an instant success on the stage and has remained one of the staples of the dramatic repertoire.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

O'Neill, Eugene. The Emperor Jones.. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1928.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Description: Signed limited first edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author, this is number 274. Quarto, original boards. Signed by Eugene O'Neill. Illustrated by Alexander King. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Brutus Jones, a former Pullman car porter wanted in the United States on two murder charges, has established himself as the self-proclaimed ruler of a West Indian island. Warned that his subjects are about to rebel, he flees to the jungle â€" sick with fright â€" where he is plagued by ghosts of the men he has murdered and haunted by visions of injustices done to his race. Powerful scenes, punctuated by beating tom-toms, suggest Jones's panic as he flees his angry countrymen and his own personal demons. First produced in 1920, The Emperor Jones helped establish O'Neill's reputation as one of America's most important dramatists. Bold and expressionistic, the play was an instant success on the stage and has remained one of the staples of the dramatic repertoire.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

O'Neill, Eugene. Emperor Jones. Boni & Liveright, NY, 1928.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8 illus by King Signed by O'Neill Ed of 750

Seller: Weyhe Art Books, Mount Desert, ME, U.S.A.

O'NEILL, Eugene.. Emperor Jones.. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1928.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: With eight illustrations by Alexander King. 91 pp. 4to, decorated paper-covered boards, black cloth spine, in slipcase with printed paper label. No. 325 of 775 copies, signed. Volume very fine; slipcase with slightly discolored label and very minor wear.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

OÕNEILL, EUGENE.. The Emperor Jones. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928, 1928.

Price: US$575.00 + shipping

Description: Special edition; illustrated by Alexander King; one of 750 numbered copies signed by O'Neill. Near fine in a very good plus dust jacket and a broken publisher's slipcase; in a custom clamshell box with a leather spine and red morocco label titled in gilt. [with] a very good. signed copy of the first edition (1925); [with] a student version of the film version, wrappers, chipped and marked, in a custom slipcase; [with] a first edition of the 'Prize Edition,' fine in a custom clamshell box. [with] Original Program for The Emperor Jones. New York: Princess Theatre, 1921. Publisher's wrappers; performed by the Provincetown Players, March 28, 1921. Excellent condition; in a custom slipcase. [with] 'The Emperor Jones' in The Golden Book Magazine, April, 1926. Publisher's wrappers; good to very good in a custom slipcase with a leather spine and a red morocco title label. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.

O'NEILL, EUGENE. A COLLECTION OF THREE LIMITED EDITIONS: THE EMPEROR JONES. [and] THE HAIRY APE. [and] STRANGE INTERLUDE. Boni and Liveright, Horace Liveright 1928, 1929, New York, 1928.

Price: US$676.00 + shipping

Description: 267 x 197 mm. (10 1/2 x 7 3/4"). 90 pp., [1] leaf (colophon); 114 pp., [1] leaf (colophon); 4 p.l., 298 pp., [1] leaf (blank), [1] leaf (colophon). Three separately published works in three volumes. First two works in publisher's patterned cloth backed with black buckram, both with pictorial dust jacket and in (somewhat worn) publisher's slipcase with paper label; "Strange Interlude" in publisher's stiff vellum over bevelled boards, with original tissue dust jacket and (very worn and crudely repaired) original paper slipcase. First two works with 17 illustrations (eight in "Emperor Jones," nine in "Hairy Ape") by Alexander King, as called for. ◆Top of "Ape" dust jacket spine neatly replaced, "Interlude" vellum quite spotted (as almost always with this book), tissue jacket of "Interlude" rather torn and creased, otherwise very well preserved: the printed jackets generally clean and fine, and the volumes themselves unworn and internally without significant signs of use. This is a pleasing group of signed limited edition copies of three ground-breaking plays by the only American playwright to win the Nobel Prize for literature. The story of a railway porter who becomes the oppressive dictator of a West Indian island, "The Emperor Jones" (1920) was the play that made O'Neill (1888-1953) famous. In it, O'Neill begins to demonstrate the innovations Day considers his great contribution to American theater: "naturalism, expressionism, modern psychology, previously forbidden themes, and previously unknown plumbing of psychic and spiritual depths." It makes great use of the soliloquy, one of O'Neill's favorite devices: in six of the eight scenes, Jones is the only character who speaks. "The Hairy Ape" (1922) deals with issues of belonging and alienation, revealing O'Neill's sympathy with the laboring class oppressed by the wealthy and privileged elite. O'Neill won his third Pulitzer Prize in eight years for "Strange Interlude," an experimental play that was, in Day's words, "a surprisingly popular success although its nine acts consume five hours." Its story of a 20th century Everywoman touches on the issues of promiscuity, abortion, insanity, and adultery (the controversial content perhaps explaining some of its popularity). This grouping is intended to provide an opportunity to acquire three signed copies of important American plays at an advantageous price. Each work ONE OF 775 COPIES (750 of these for sale) SIGNED BY O'NEILL; FIRST EDITION of "Strange Interlude.".

Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.