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O'Neill, Eugene. Beyond the Horizon. Boni and Liveright Publishers, New York, 1920.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. An attractive First Issue dustjacket with the $1.50 printed price present on the spine. This ORIGINAL dustjacket has light wear to the spine and panels. The book is in nice condition with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy with the scarce dustjacket.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$3850.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. A Fine Association Copy, Inscribed and Signed by Eugene O'Neill to novelist Josephine Johnson ".with all pleasant memories of her visit to Old Peaked Hill Bar.". A copy with fine provenance. 8vo, publisher's original tan and terra-cotta cloth, the spine and upper cover lettered in black. Now housed and protected in a foldover box of terra-cotta cloth. [x], 165 pp. A very good plus copy of a book seldom found as such. Some evidence of age or use, light foxing to the endleaves as usual, but a very pleasing copy still. FIRST EDITION AND A SIGNED ASSOCIATION AND PRESENTATION COPY WITH PLEASING PROVENANCE. Josephine Johnson was an American novelist, poet, and essayist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1935 at age 24 for her first novel, NOW IN NOVEMBER, which she wrote while living in her mother's attic. To this day she remains the youngest person to win the Pulitzer for Fiction. Shortly thereafter, while still living on her farm, she published Winter Orchard, a collection of short stories that had previously appeared in The Atlantic Monthly and Vanity Fair among other periodicals. Of these stories, "Dark" won an O. Henry Award in 1934, and "John the Six" won an O. Henry Award third prize the following year. Johnson continued writing short stories and won three more O. Henry Awards: for "Alexander to the Park" (1942), "The Glass Pigeon" (1943), and "Night Flight" (1944). She visited Eugene O'Neill on Cape Cod and frequented a favorite area of the author and his friends. To this day, Peaked Hill Bars Historic District includes dune shacks that were home to American artists and writers from the 1920s to present day. The historic district, located in the Outer Cape towns of Provincetown and Truro, comprises 1,950 acres of the Cape Cod National Seashore. O'Neill worked on Beyond the Horizon for more than three years. Although he first copyrighted the text in June 1918, O'Neill continued to revise the play throughout the rehearsals for its 1920 premiere. His first full-length work to be staged, Beyond the Horizon won the 1920 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It played on Broadway for all of 1920 and was revived and produced on Broadway again in 1926. Nearly 50 years later, PBS created a fine presentation of the play for television. And in 1983 it was adapted into an opera by composer Nicolas Flagello. In 2009 and 2010 it was brought again to stage in both London and Northampton. "Theater historians point to O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon, which debuted in 1920, as the first native American tragedy. That play emerged from O'Neill's association with the Provincetown Players, one of many so-called 'little theaters' that developed in the 1910s to provide alternative fare to commercial drama of the time." "Playwrights in America" Wiki
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Description: INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Edith---/With all my best, and/in the hope that our dune-/hiking took off a pound or/two/Gene/Provincetown, Nov. 1920." Edith was the wife of Frank Shay, one of O'Neill's first publishers and one of the Provincetown Players (He appeared in John Reed's FREEDOM in 1916.). Shay bought the Boni brothers bookshop (Boni later joined Horace Liveright, becoming O'Neill's next, and major, publisher) and brought out the three Provincetown Plays series: the first appearance in print of BOUND EAST FOR CARDIFF and BEFORE BREAKFAST. In 1920, he and Edith, along with the Hutchins Hapgoods, the Wilbur Daniel Steeles, Susan Glaspell, and Jig Cook were frequent visitors at Peaked Hill Bar with Agnes and Eugene O'Neill, all having children who were playmates. Atkinson A 14-I-i.a: Binding A: 1250 copies published. Provenance: Parke-Bernet, 18 May 1971, lot 85. Both hinges split nearly completely with covers loose but still attached. Dampstain to bottom third of spine extending partly to the covers but not showing internally. A Good copy at best with a fine inscription
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
O'Neill, Eugene. Beyond the Horizon. Boni and Liveright Publishers, New York, 1920.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing authentically SIGNED by Eugene O'Neill on a laid in signature. This First Issue dustjacket is rich in color with minor wear to the edges. The book is in excellent condition and is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's cloth. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy SIGNED by the author in collector's condition. We buy SIGNED O'Neill First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.