Jun 20, 2013 - Sale 2319

Sale 2319 - Lot 222

Price Realized: $ 1,140
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
O'NEILL, EUGENE. Mourning Becomes Electra. 8vo, publisher's decorated green cloth; top edges stained black; dust jacket, spot of soiling to front panel, spine panel tanned with short chip to head, a few nicks at fold corners, narrow horizontal portion of top of front flap excised; housed in a custom cloth clamshell case. New York: Horace Liveright, 1931

Additional Details

first trade edition, with a signed presentation inscription by O'Neill to Danish-American novelist Sophus K. Winther who was a long-time professor at the University of Washington. The inscription reads: "To Sophus- with all friendship! Eugene O'Neill Dec. [19]36- Seattle."