first edition Hardcover
1928 · New York
by O'NEILL, Eugene
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First trade edition. Very good with toned endpages, spots to the boards and spine gilt faded in about good dustwrapper with some small chips at the corners, toning, and mostly split along the spine. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama, it included many innovative stage techniques including stream-of-conscious soliloquies and asides. Basis for the 1932 film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and featuring Norma Shearer and Clark Gable; also directed for television by Herbert Wise in 1988 with a splendid cast headed by Kenneth Branagh. (Inventory #: 461366)