The Family Reunion; A Play

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939 First American edition, first printing; first state dust jacket with $1.50 price to front flap. One of 2,500 copies. Publisher's black cloth, gilt stamping to spine; original yellow dust jacket printed in brown, with white lettering. About fine book, with light offsetting to endpapers, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, and The Holliday Bookshop ticket to rear pastedown; very good unclipped dust jacket, with shallow chipping to spine ends, light toning to extremities, and a small closed tear to top edge of front panel. Overall, a clean copy of this Eliot drama. Gallup A33b. The Family Reunion was first published in March of 1939 by Faber & Faber in London, with the first American edition published later in the same month. It is a verse drama that combines elements of Greek tragedy with modern psychology. The plot follows Harry Monchensey as he returns home to his family estate, haunted by guilt over his wife's death. The Eumenides, Greek goddesses of vengeance who most famously appear in Aeschylus's Oresteia, manifest as a symbol of Harry's inner torment, both psychological and mythical, which he attempts to reconcile.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included.