Wings Desire, Signed (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 518 pages ; 22 cm. Fiction by a prominent Minnesota writer. Surprisingly rare. This copy wiith the spine quite faded, but otherwise a nearly fine copy. A small bookplate on the paste down. Signed by Author(s).

Signed limited edition, number 522 of 770 copies signed by the author. O'Neill was requested to write a preface for each volume. He declined, but agreed to the arrangement that his Random House editor would write the prose, and he would allow his initials to be added. The designer of this, the "Wilderness Edition", was Elmer Adler (1884-1962). Atkinson A30-IV-1; A32-III-1; A15-IX-1; A33-II-1; A23-V-1; A29-III-1; A28-IV-1; A20-VI-1; A14-IV-1; A24-IV-1; A31-III-1; A17-IV-1; A18-V-1; A22-IV-1; A34-II-1; A16-IV-1; A26-III-1; A21-VI-1; A25-V-1; A27-II-1; A8-V-1; A9-IV-1; A10-IV-1; A6-VI-1; A11-IV-1; A12-V-1; A13-IV-1; A19-IV-1; A7-V-1. 12 vols, octavo. Title pages printed in black and grey. Photogravure frontispieces in each vol. Original brown cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, front cover with decoration in gilt, top edges gilt. With glassine jackets. Housed in original five slipcases. Bookplate to front pastedown in vol 1. Some tears and loss to glassine jackets; slipcases worn: a fine set in good glassine jackets and good slipcases.