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O'NEILL, Eugene.. Emperor Jones.. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1928.
Price: US$100.00 + 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, split at the top edge and with one portion of the top edge detached but present.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
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.. Emperor Jones.. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1928.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: With eight illustrations by Alexander King. 91 pp. 4to, decorated paper-covered boards, black cloth spine, dust jacket with applied illustration and slipcase with printed paper label. No. 118 of 775 copies, signed. Volume very fine. The front panel of the dust jacket is very slightly rippled and otherwise very fine. Slipcase splitting at several edges, missing a short section of the bottom edge, and the label is a bit tanned.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, 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.
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. The Emperor Jones. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1928.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: With Colored Illus. by Alexander King. 4to, cloth backed decorative boards, d.w. N.Y.: Boni & Liveright, 1928. Limited First Edition. One of 775 copies, signed by both O'Neill & King. Fine, lacking slipcase.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, 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.
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.