Three Plays Eugene Oneill, First Edition (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 1st Printing. The Modern Library 1937 1st Printing Good+/ Title - Three Plays by Eugene O'Neill. 260 pages plus advertisements. Red cloth with light to moderate edgewear, solid structure, tight lightly tanned pages with a few pen marks here-or-there. Pos penned on inside page edges.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. GREATNESS !!! FUNDAMENTAL: NEW First Edition (Orig. 1988) First Printing LOA hardcover, EXCELLENT LOA slipcase w/ double-ruled gilt borders & LOA-logo gilt-stamped on front panel & w/ VERY GOOD edges & corners but showing slight shelf-dust soiling, NEW British-green Brillianta silk-finish rayon-weave fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE white-on-green LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB Ecusta Nyallite paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.42", 0.65 kg, 1007 pp. Slipcase: 5.36 x 8.36" x 1.68"; 0.76 kg * CONTENTS: Complete Plays: Eugene O'Neill: Volume III of III: 1932-1943: Ah, Wilderness! (1), Days Without End (109), A Touch of the Poet (181), More Stately Mansions (283), The Iceman Cometh (561), Long Day's Journey into Night (713), Hughie (829), A Moon for the Misbegotten (853), Appendix: Tomorrow (947), Chronology (969), Note on the Texts (991), Notes (998) * ABOUT THE BOOK: The third & final volume of the first complete collection of Eugene O'Neill's dramatic writings (available exclusively from The LOA) contains 8 plays written between 1932 and 1943, when illness forced him to stop writing. They represent the crowning achievements of his career. O'Neill described 'Ah, Wilderness!' as "the way I would have liked my boyhood to have been." Set in the summer of 1906, it affectionately depicts the warm, close family of 16-year-old Richard Miller & the innocence w/ which he faces the trials of first love, strong drink, & sexual temptation. John Loving, hero of 'Days Without End', is split by his lack of faith into two selves: John & his Mephistophelian double Loving, who wears John's death mask & plots his destruction. Burdened by guilt but desperately wanting to love, John struggles with Loving's nihilistic hatred in what O'Neill termed his "modern miracle play." In 'A Touch of the Poet', Irish tavern-keeper Con Melody is drawn by his proud past as a Byronic cavalry hero of the Napoleonic Wars toward a fatal confrontation w/ his wealthy Yankee neighbors, the Harfords. Throughout 'More Stately Mansions', the idealistic yet cunning Simon Harford, his wife, Sara Melody Harford, & his mother, Deborah, continually shift roles & alliances as they engage in an eerie psychological & sexual battle for possession of each other & their own maddeningly elusive dreams. This volume presents the never-before-published complete text of the revised typescript for this unfinished play. The derelict inhabitants of Harry Hope's saloon in 'The Iceman Cometh' find solace in their comradeship until their drifting calm is destroyed by the visiting salesman Theodore Hickey, who insists that they abandon all "pipe dreams" & face the truth about their lives. O'Neill carefully orchestrates the voices of over a dozen characters to form a chorus of overwhelming despair & surprising compassion. 'Hughie' is a one-act dialogue between a reminiscing gambler & a weary hotel night clerk about the promise & loneliness of city life. 'Long Day's Journey into Night' unsparingly dissects the pain, rage, guilt, & love that drive a wounded family apart & bind it together. In their summer home the four Tyrones (James, a proud actor haunted by poverty, his devout, morphine-addicted wife, Mary, & their sons, Jamie, a cynical drunkard, & Edmund, an aspiring poet) slowly unveil the truth about their lives until they can no longer hope either to save or to escape one another. Published and produced posthumously, it won O'Neill his 4th Pulitzer Prize. In its elegiac coda, 'A Moon for the Misbegotten', Jamie Tyrone seeks the peace that has long eluded him in the arms of sharp-tongued Josie Hogan. The volume concludes w/ "Tomorrow" (1917), O'Neill's only published short story. * SHIPPING: Free Domestic USPS MEDIA MAIL.