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O'Neill, Eugene. LAZARUS LAUGHED. Boni & Liveright: NY, 1927.
Price: US$109.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 9 x 6", boards, 179pp, partially uncut, spine very stained, small chip from spine label. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 775 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY O'NEILL.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
O'NEILL, Eugene.. Lazarus Laughed.. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 179 pp. 8vo, publisher's art vellum backed batik boards, in slipcase and remnants of glassine wrapper. First edition; No. 87 of 775 copies signed by Eugene O'Neill. Very slightest of tanning to the spine; a bright unworn copy in a slipcase partially split along one joint and a few tiny areas of rubbing.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
O'NEILL, Eugene.. Lazarus Laughed.. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 179 pp. 8vo, publisher's art vellum backed batik boards, in slipcase. First edition; No. 120 of 775 copies signed by Eugene O'Neill. Spine a little tanned; but a fresh copy in a nice slipcase with a little use to the open end.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
O'Neill (Eugene). Lazarus Laughed.. NY: Boni & Liveright, 1927. First edition, limited issue., 1927.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Original patterned boards & white paper backstrip, printed paper label on spine. Rubbing to spine and some short tears to top of spine, a very good copy. This is copy #47 of 775 numbered copies, signed by O'Neill. Partly unopened.
Seller: William Matthews/The Haunted Bookshop, Sidney, BC, Canada
O'neill, Eugene. LAZARUS LAUGHED;. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$155.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: #16/775, signed on limitation pg., book body clean and tight, deckled edges, top edge dusted, sunning to spine, paper lable, sunning at top of front cover, japanese paper covered boards. Signed By Author.
Seller: Counterpoint Records & Books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
O'Neill, Eugene. LAZARUS LAUGHED. Boni & Liveright: NY, 1927.
Price: US$172.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 9 x 6", parchment backed batik boards, 179pp, very slight soil to spine else very good condition in slightly used slipcase. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 775 NUMBERED COPIES (#624) SIGNED BY EUGENE O'NEILL.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
O'Neill, Eugene. Lazarus Laughed. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, batik boards, white parchment spine. N.Y.: Boni & Liveright, 1927. Limited first edition. One of of 775 copies, signed by O'Neill.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 179 pages, 8vo. Limited Edition of 775 numbered and signed copies, of which 750 are for sale. This is copy no.503. SIGNED by Eugene O'Neill on limited page. Publisher's batik paper over boards, parchment paper spine label. Many pages remain uncut. Shelfwear: light tanning along spine. Otherwise, volume is tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Near Fine condition. Slipcase is heavily damages, missing entire rear spine, many tears and missing pieces. Slipcase is in Poor-minus condition.
Seller: Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
OÕNEILL, EUGENE.. Lazarus Laughed. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927, 1927.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Special edition; one of 750 numbered copies signed by O'Neill. Very good in a mediocre publisher's slipcase lacking the top. 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. LAZARUS LAUGHED. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 9 x 6". One of 25 Author's copies of signed limited edition of 775 copies. Signed by O'Neill with an additional inscription, "To Doctor Hamilton with all deep gratitude & friendship." Decorated paper covered boards with paper vellum spine. Spine browned with brown off-setting (from clipping) to front paste-down. Lacking slipcase. "At age 37, already famous but still an inordinate consumer of alcohol he (O'Neill ).volunteered to participate in a pre-Kinsey study of human sexuality conducted by a psychiatrist named Dr. Gilbert V. Hamilton.the fatherly physician explained that the playwright drank to bury his Oedipean problems, where upon O'Neill stopped drinking forever." (And stopped writing for 12 years! Notes taken from these sessions were the) "working memoranda for (O'Neill's last and his most famous play) Long Days Journey Into Night" -nytimes.
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
O'NEILL, Eugene.. Lazarus Laughed.. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927, 1927.
Price: US$257.33 + shipping
Description: First edition, signed limited issue, number 417 of 775 copies signed and numbered by the author, the first 25 of which were not for sale. Lazarus Laughed premiered at the Pasadena Playhouse in California in 1928, with more than 100 actors playing over 400 roles. "Being the first man to return from the realm whose boundary is never supposed to be recrossed, the multitude hangs upon Lazarus' words. He tells them that there is no death - only God's eternal laughter. That is the burden of the whole play. The succeeding scenes represent a series of tests by the Jews, Romans and Greeks to try Lazarus' faith. In turn the various members of his family are taken from him, but he continues ever to laugh, even to the end when Emperor Tiberius has him burned at the stake" (Stechan). H. O. Stechan, "Lazarus Laughed [Review]", Pasadena Community Playhouse, 9 April 1928. Octavo. Original quarter vellum, purple and cream patterned cloth sides, paper spine label, edges unopened and untrimmed. Housed in the original black card slipcase with title label. Title page printed in purple. Binding square and firm, spine toned, contents crisp. A very good copy indeed, in the slipcase with rubbed and worn edges.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
OÕNEILL, EUGENE.. Lazarus Laughed. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927, 1927.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Special edition; one of 750 numbered copies signed by O'Neill. Very good or better in a mediocre publisher's slipcase; in a custom clamshell box with a leather spine and red morocco label titled in gilt. 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. Lazarus Laughed [Limited Edition, Signed]. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Description: Limited to 775 copies of which this is no. 370. Octavo (23.5cm.); original parchment-backed decorative boards, printed paper spine label, in black paper-covered slipcase, printed label mounted to upper panel; 179pp.; title page printed in magenta. Spine rather toned with some light scratches and small dampstain at foot, some wear to slipcase extremities with shallow loss of paper, else Very Good or better in About Very Good slipcase. Signed by the author on colophon. ATKINSON A29-I-i-b.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
O'Neill, Eugene. Lazarus Laughed. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Number 358 from a limited edition of 775 copies, 750 of which were for sale, SIGNED by O'Neill. Art Deco decorated black with red batik paper boards, vellum spine with paper label title. Book is Fine, pages uncut, in a Very Good original black publisher's slipcase that is rubbed at the spine and opening edges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Limited and Numbered, Signed 1st Edition.
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
Eugene O'Neill. Lazarus Laughed [SIGNED & NUMBERED EDITION]. Boni & Liveright, 1927.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This is a nearly perfect example of this beautifully produced signed, numbered 1927 O'Neill epic play. This copy is unread, as shown by the number of uncut ends of the deckled pages. This is copy number 427 of the 775 copy limited edition. Please see my five attached photos. More available upon request.
Seller: Virginia Books & More, Spotsylvania, VA, U.S.A.
O'NEILL, Eugene. Lazarus Laughed. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 179pp., 8vo, rebound in half black leather over marbled boards; gilt-ruled and lettered spine with raised bands, uncut edges, t.e.g. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. Limited first edition. A fine copy. One of 775 copies, signed by O'Neill on the limitation page.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Three Different Editions: A Fine Copy Of The Signed Limited First Edition Of The Book, Signed By O'neill, In A Near Fine Original Slipcase. Also Included Is The First Trade Edition, Near Fine In A Near Fine, Unfaded Dust Jacket, Not Price-Clipped. Also Included Is A Unique Copy Of The Third Printing, February 1928, The Printing Just Before The First Production Of The Play, At The Pasadena Playhouse. Prepared By Or For Claude D. Seaman [Of The Standard Lighting Company, Los Angeles], With His Name On Front Endpaper Carefully Blocked In Ink. Printed Heading, By Hand, On First Blank "World Premiere/ Of O'neill's/ "Lazarus Laughed"/ Pasadena Community Playhouse/ April 9 - 1928"; Repeated On Verso; Half Title With Line For Author's Signature [But He Was Not Present And This Line Is Thus Blank]; Verso With "World Premiere." Text Repeated, With Lines For Director, Musical Director, Director Of Movement, Art Director, Production Manager, Business Manager, And The Chairman Of The Production Committee, Each Line Signed By The Person Holding That Position; Title Page; Verso Is Copyright Page; Synopsis Page; Verso Are Lines Drawn And Extended To Each Of The "Characters" Listed On The Following Page, Each Line Signed By The Person Who Played That Part, Maurice Wells Thus Signing Twice, 14 Signatures In All; "World Premiere" Text Repeated At Foot Of Characters Page And Again On Verso; "Act One" Title Page; Verso Repeats Then "World Premiere.' Text, Followed By Lijnes For Each Of The Producing Staff / Setting, Including The Designer James Hyde, And 11 Others. With, Laid In Loosely, The Los Angeles Newspaper Review By The Spectator Of The Production Which Shortly Moved To The Hollywood Music Box [Theatre], With A Clipped Newspaper Ad For The Production Citing A Cast Of 250 And A Production Cost Of $100,000. The Play Has Since Been Produced Only Four Times, Due In Part To The Expense And Difficulty, But Also To Its Philosophical, Didactic Yet Confrontational Tone Which Has Not Set Well With General Audiences Since The Original Use Of This Dramatic Form Several Thousand Years Past. Irving Pichel [1891-1954] Played The Title Role. He Also Played The Servant, Sandor, In Dracula's Daughter, Fagin In The 1933 Film Oliver Twist, And About 57 Other Films 1930-1939, With Minor Roles In Films He Later Directed. He Directed Films 1932-1954, Including The Most Dangerous Game, She, Earthbound, Hudson's Bay, The Moon Is Down, They Won't Believe Me, The Miracle Of The Bells, Destination Moon, And Santa Fe. In 1947 Hje Was One Of The Hollywood 19 Subpoened By The House Un-America Activities Committee; He Was Not Called To Testify, But Was Blacklisted, Requiring Him To Work Outside The Us. Victor Jory [1902-1982] Was Canadian, Attended School In Pasadena, Appeared In Theatre All Over The Us And Made His Motion Picture Debut In 1930, Later Appearing In Over 150 Pictures And Dozens Of Tv Episodes. [Note That This Book Is Not Signed By O'neill. Gilmor Brown, Producer Of The Play, Was Director Of Public Speaking And Dramatics At Caltech, Later Director Of The Pasadena Playhouse, And Responsible For Making It Into One Of The Premier Small Theatres In The U.S. From The 1920'S Into The 1950'S, Routinely Featuring Prominent Starring Actoirs And Furnishing An Entree For Many Actors Who Later Became Successful In Motion Pictures And Tv.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.