May 16, 2017 - Sale 2448

Sale 2448 - Lot 221

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
O'NEILL, EUGENE. The Emperor Jones. Diff'rent. The Straw. 8vo, publisher's 1/4-cloth stamped in black, light soiling, rubbed, spine tanned, corners bumped; front hinge split; housed in a custom cloth chemise and slipcase. New York: Boni and Liveright, (1921)

Additional Details

first edition, in the first issue binding; presentation copy, inscribed in the year of publication by O'Neill to actress Helen MacKellar on the front free endpaper: "To Helen MacKellar -- with keen regrets for the 'Eileen' that is not to be -- and wishing myself better luck next time. Eugene O'Neill. Old Peaked Hill Bar, Provincetown, Mass. June 1921."