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Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: SIGNED BY JOSE QUINTERO AND ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY GERALDINE PAGE ON THE DUST WRAPPER - Octavo, 8-1/2 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Green cloth titled in gilt on the spine in color pictorial dust wrapper. The top inner corner of the front cover is lightly dampstained. The edges of the dust jacket are slightly chipped and the rear inner flap is detached. 352 pages. The front hinge is cracked. Very good in a fair dust wrapper. First edition. A wonderful association copy, signed by the Panamanian theater director Jose Quintero on the title page and additionally inscribed & signed by the Oscar-winning American actress Geraldine Page on the dust wrapper: "Thank you for letting me sign this! Geraldine Page". Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning play concerning a woman's sexual affairs was often banned or censored. The Panamanian theater director and producer Jose Quintero (1924-1999), was best known for his productions of the works of Eugene O'Neill. Quintero directed Strange Interlude for New York's Actors Studio in 1963 with a cast which included Geraldine Page, Jane Fonda, Franchot Tone, Ben Gazzara, Pat Hingle and Betty Field. Quintero's production of the play with Geraldine Page, opened March 11th, 1963, at the Hudson Theatre in New York City. Columbia Masterworks Records issued a recording of the production as a five LP set which was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Documentary, Spoken Word Or Drama Recording in 1964. With a career that spanned 4 decades, the American actress Geraldine Page (1924-1987) performed in film, theater, and television. Page was the recipient of an Academy Award and an additional seven nominations as well as two Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four nominations for the Tony Award.
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
O'Neill, Eugene. Strange Interlude. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1928.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Number 479 of 775 copies signed by the author. Text printed in blue and black. Full vellum or parchment, leather label. Covers mottled as usual with a small imperfection in vellum/parchment on rear cover and a hint of rubbing to upper edge of beveled edge of front cover. A clean tight copy with no marks or inscriptions. PayPal accepted.
Seller: Diamond Island Books, Gorham, ME, U.S.A.
O'Neill, Eugene. Strange Interlude *SIGNED**. Boni & Liveright,, New York,, 1928.
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Description: Very good this is # 753 of #775 signed numbered copies. Vellum, no slipcase
Seller: Westsider Rare & Used Books Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
O'Neill, Eugene. Strange Interlude. Boni and Liveright:New York, 1928.
Price: US$244.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Eugene O/Neill has signed this limited edition, number 535 of only 750 copies. The book is tight, bright, and clean. The previous owner's name and date are written at the top of the inside front cover. No other writings are present. The pages appear rough cut and possibly age darkened ? The spine appears mottled ,soiled, making the exterior very good. The slip case has wear on the edges, but still does its job quite well.
Seller: George Kent, Bookseller, Silverhill, AL, U.S.A.
O'NEILL, Eugene. Strange Interlude. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1928.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Number 166 of 750 copies in vellum, signed by O'Neill on limitation page. A nearly fine copy,without slipcase, with a stain on bottom right of front cover extending up the front edge, and a smaller, similar stain on back bottom left cover. Foxing to page edges and very mild, even foxing to pages. Handling smudges to cloth.
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
O'Neill, Eugene. Strange Interlude (SIGNED Limited Edition) #514 of 750. Boni & Liveright, 1928.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover. 1928. Boni and Liveright. 298 pages. Very Good condition. Limited Edition. Copy 514 of 750. Vellum binding. SIGNED by the Author. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 298 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Book Gallery // Mike Riley, Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.
OÕNEILL, EUGENE.. Strange Interlude. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928, 1928.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Deluxe issue; one of 775 numbered deluxe copies signed by Eugene O'Neill (this one marked 'Publisher's Presentation'). The vellum binding is very mottled, although the text is clean; very good. A Pulitzer Prize winner. 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. STRANGE INTERLUDE [limited signed edition]. Boni & Liveright: NY, 1928.
Price: US$258.75 + shipping
Description: 10.25 x 7.75", gilt-lettered full parchment, 297pp, covers a bit rubbed and yellowed (esp. spine), hinges loose. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 775 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
O'NEILL, EUGENE. Strange Interlude signed 1928. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1928.
Price: US$285.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: From the Estate of Barbara Walters. First edition, deluxe limited issue. 87 of 775 copies signed by the author. Text printed in blue and black. 1 vols. 4to. Full vellum, leather label. Covers mottled as usual. Fine. Tall octavo. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, *Strange Interlude* included many innovative stage techniques such as stream-of-consciousness soliloquies and asides. The limited edition elaborately prints these interludes in blue ink, while the rest of the text is in black (the trade edition has all text in black). Strange Interlude (almost three times normal play length) has as its central character a beautiful woman who blames her emotional sterility on the death of a lover killed in the war, but nevertheless manages to dominate the lives of three men her husband, a lover, and her feebly genteel bachelor uncle.
Seller: Clays rare and antique books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
O'Neill, Eugene. STRANGE INTERLUDE. Boni & Liveright: NY, 1928.
Price: US$287.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 10.25 x 7.5", full beveled vellum, 298pp, very nice copy in worn and splitting slipcase. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 775 NUMBERED COPIES (#537) SIGNED BY EUGENE O'NEILL.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
O'Neill, Eugene. Strange Interlude. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1928.
Price: US$294.11 + shipping
Description: 0 352 p. 22 cm. Fine in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. light shelfwear to the slipcase, # 56 OF 750 SIGNED LIMITED EDITION
Seller: PONCE A TIME BOOKS, SANTA BARBARA, CA, U.S.A.
OÕNEILL, EUGENE.. Strange Interlude. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928, 1928.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Deluxe issue; one of 775 numbered deluxe copies signed by Eugene O'Neill. With the usual mottling of the vellum binding, although the text is very clean; very good in a broken, shabby publisher's slipcase. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 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. Strange Interlude. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1928.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, no. 87 of 775 copies signed by the author. Text printed in blue and black. 1 vols. 4to. O'Neill's experimental play, which was awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1928, was adapted to the big screen only once in 1932, and starred Norma Shearer and Clark Gable. Full vellum, leather label. Covers mottled as usual. Fine Text printed in blue and black. 1 vols. 4to First edition, no. 87 of 775 copies signed by the author.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
O'Neill, Eugene.. STRANGE INTERLUDE.. Boni & Liveright: NY, 1928.
Price: US$339.25 + shipping
Description: 10.25 x 7.75, beveled edge parchment, 298 pp, top right front corner a little frayed, covers darkened, spine lightly spotted else ok in completely broken box. FIRST ED, LIMITED TO 775 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 4to. 297 pp., xii leaves of plates. Strange Interlude, New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928, copy number 524 of 775 copies printed on all-rag watermarked paper, signed by O'Neill on the limitation, with an additional authorial inscription and signature on ffep to James T. Collins, bound in full publisher's vellum over beveled boards (discoloration to boards). Very Good. Atkinson, A30.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
O'NEILL, Eugene.. Strange Interlude.. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1928.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: 298 pp. 8vo, full vellum stamped in gold and blue with lettered label on spine, in pulisher's slipcase. No. 146 of 775 copies, signed by the author. Vellum partly browning, particularly at spine; slipcase rubbed at extremities.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
O'NEILL, Eugene. Strange Interlude. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1928.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: 4to, 298 pages, untrimmed edges, parchment boards. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. Limited First Edition. Very good copy, with the usual mottling on the covers. Number 329 of 775 signed copies.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
O'Neill, Eugene. Strange Interlude. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1928.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, hardcover, #54 of 775 copies signed by the author, usual mottling to the vellum, couple of light finger smudges to title page, otherwise a Near Fine copy with most signatures uncut housed in a somewhat worn Good slipcase which is beginning to split at the seams.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
O'Neill, Eugene. Strange Interlude. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1928.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, no. 708 of 775 copies signed by the author. Text printed in blue and black. 1 vols. 4to. Full vellum leather label. Covers mottled. In original box (damaged, with loss). Bookplate Text printed in blue and black. 1 vols. 4to First edition, no. 708 of 775 copies signed by the author.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed limited edition #557 of 775 numbered copies, Bound in Japanese vellum, with smooth vellum with all-rag watermarked pages, signed by Eugene O'neill, cover shows natural mottling
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
O'NEILL, EUGENE. STRANGE INTERLUDE. , 1928.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: O'NEILL, Eugene. STRANGE INTERLUDE. NY: Boni & Liveright, 1928. Quarto: vellum over boards, in original cardboard slipcase. Signed, Limited Edition of 775 numbered copies. Near fine. Enclosed in a the original cardboard slipcase and an additional custom-made leather and cloth slipcase. Near fine (tiny bookplate on front pastedown). A nice copy! $500.00.
Seller: Antic Hay Books, Asbury Park, NJ, U.S.A.
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. âTop 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.
O'Neill, Eugene. Strange Interlude. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1928.
Price: US$695.00 + shipping
Description: 198 pages. 26 x 19.5 cm. Limited Edition, copy 390 of 775 signed by O'Neill. Text printed in blue and black. This work won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1929, and was the basis for the MGM 1932 film starring Norma Shearer and Clark Gable. Unopened, bookplate front cover pastedown. Orig. parchment boards, beveled edges, black leather spine label printed in gilt. Fine in slightly worn original brown slipcase with printed spine label
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
O'NEILL, Eugene. Strange Interlude: A Play. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1928.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 352pp. Short thick 4to, beautifully rebound in full khaki morocco; gilt-lettered spine with raised bands and black leather label; marbled endpapers, uncut edges, t.e.g. (pages are a bit toned as usual, else a fine copy) New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. A fine copy. Limited edition. Number 282 of 775 copies on rag paper, signed by the author on the limitation page.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
O'Neill, Eugene.. Strange Interlude.. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1928.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Issue. #673/775 copies. A Fine, unopened copy in white bevelled vellum, typically mottled, black spine label printed in gilt, printed letterpress on laid paper in black and dark blue inks, all edges untrimmed, SIGNED by O'Neill on a preliminary limitation page and hand-numbered, in publisher's pale tan paper covered slipcase, spine label (also hand numbered), with slight wear to joints. 298pp. This ambitious play won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. A nine-act play in two parts. Q06968
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
O'Neill, Eugene. Strange Interlude. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1928.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo., full Japanese vellum with beveled edges, calf spine label lettered in gilt; with a touch of soiling. First edition, deluxe limited issue; printed in black and blue to distinguish thoughts from dialogue. One of 25 special copies, marked "Publisher's Presentation Copy," from an edition of 775 copies, signed by O'Neill. Atkinson A.30-II-1 ---- This copy once owned by Harry Kemp, with a note in his hand to Cecil Maud Boulton, mother of Agnes Boulton, second wife of playwright Eugene O'Neill: "To Cecil Boulton from Harry Kemp." Kemp, the bohemian Provincetown poet and an old friend of the Boulton family, befriended O'Neill in 1916. A marvelous association copy.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
O'NEILL, Eugene. STRANGE INTERLUDE. New York: Boni & Liveright., 1928.
Price: US$2510.89 + shipping
Description: Signed, numbered, limited edition of 775 copies, 750 of which were for sale. Some of the non-trade copies were publisher's presentation copies and some were reserved for the author. This copy is identified on the limitation page as "author's copy 3". In addition to the signature on the limitation page, this copy is additionally signed and personally dedicated to the Danish-American novelist, professor and O'Neill scholar, Sophus Winther. There is a small paper label affixed to the front pastedown noting that the volume was presented by Winter to Indiana University. Original Japanese vellum-covered beveled boards with blue ruled borders, facsimile of the author's signature stamped in gilt to the front panel; black label ruled and lettered in gilt to the spine. Complete with the orange paper-covered card slipcase with a buff paper label lettered in brown to the spine. The text is printed in blue and black ink on laid paper, watermarked with the author's signature. Housed in a fleece-lined custom made box with hand-decorated cloth-covered boards, quarter-bound in black leather with a burgundy label lettered and ruled in gilt to the spine. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean and bright throughout. The paper-covered boards are uniformly mottled (a near-universal phenomenon with this volume) and the slipcase is moderately worn and scuffed, notably to lower edges. A very attractive association copy of O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Dedicated on the front free endpaper "To Sophus / in memory of your visit here / with all friendship! / Eugene O'Neill / Casa Genotta, 1936". Stephen A. Black, in his biography of O'Neill, describes that visit thus: "In late August, new friends from Seattle arrived for a visit, Sophus and Eline Winther. Sophus Keith Winther of the University of Washington had written a book on O'Neill that the playwright liked. In correspondence O'Neill had mentioned he wanted to move to the West Coast. The Winthers suggested a visit to Seattle, and Eugene agreed. Winther arranged for them [O' Neill and his wife, Carlotta] to rent a secluded house high on a bluff in the Magnolia district with westward views of Puget Sound and the Olympic Peninsula." The friendship between O' Neill and Winther continued for the remainder of the author's life. 'Strange Interlude', an experimental, nine-act work lasting five hours, took many years to write (O' Neill began work on the play in 1923) and is notable for its novel and extended use of soliloquy (a characteristic that was parodied by Groucho Marx, no less, in the great 'Animal Crackers' (1930), where O' Neill's play is subtly name-checked). The play opened on January 30, 1928, at the John Golden Theatre on Broadway and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama that year (the third of four such awards bestowed upon the author). 'Strange Interlude' was adapted by Bess Meredyth for the 1932 film directed by Robert Z. Leonard, starring Norma Shearer and Clark Gable; as well as a 1988 television adaptation directed by Herbert Wise and starring Edward Petherbridge and Glenda Jackson (broadcast as part of the PBS series, American Playhouse). (Stephen A. Black, 'Eugene O'Neill: Beyond Mourning and Tragedy', 1999; Atkinson A 30-II-1). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
O'NEILL, Eugene. Strange Interlude. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1928.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, deluxe limited issue. Tall octavo. Full Japanese vellum with calf spine label gilt, in original slipcase. Boards foxed, as usual, else a near fine copy in worn, but sound, very good numbered slipcase, with evidence of neat, older repairs, the whole housed in a custom cloth chemise and quarter morocco and cloth slipcase. Of a limited edition of 775 copies Signed by O'Neill, this is copy number 20 of 25 copies reserved for the publisher and author, and is Inscribed by Horace Liveright to Ernest Boyd: "To my dear Ernest - this very special copy is most affectionately dedicated by his admiring friend - and with added admiration for a certain girl called Madeleine who is responsible for the gift - and, before it's too late - a happy birthday. Horace Liveright." Both Boyd and O'Neill were Irish-American writers, and co-editors of the short-lived literary journal *The American Spectator*. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, *Strange Interlude* included many innovative stage techniques such as stream-of-consciousness soliloquies and asides. The limited edition elaborately prints these interludes in blue ink, while the rest of the text is in black (the trade edition has all text in black). Basis for the 1932 Robert Z. Leonard-directed film featuring Norma Shearer and Clark Gable, as well as a 1988 television version directed by Herbert Wise and with a splendid cast headed by Kenneth Branagh. A superb association copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.