Ah! Wilderness

New York, Random House [1933]., 1933. First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth with gilt stamped spine and Eugene O'Neill's facsimile signature in gilt on the upper cover, top edge stained blue; pictorial endpapers. Dust jacket (unclipped; small minor shigging to the front panel). Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Four-act play, dedicated to George Jean Nathan. Basis for the 1935 MGM film, directed By Clarence Brown, starring Wallace Berry, Lionel Barrymore and Mickey Rooney (the success of this picture is said to have inspired the Andy Hardy series); (truncated) also the basis for the 1948 MGM musical version "Summer Holiday," directed by Rouben Mamoulian, starring Walter Huston, Frank Morgan and Mickey Rooney.. F. Hardcover. (Inventory #: 5285)