Mourning Becomes Electra
New York: Horace Liveright, (1931).
Price: $450.00
Hardcover. First edition, limited issue. Tall octavo. Very slight age-toning, else fine in Japan vellum lacking the fragile original slipcase. Facsimile notes in pocket in rear as issued. Copy number 460 of 550 numbered copies Signed by the author. Nobel Prize-winning playwright O'Neill's powerful trilogy of plays, patterned on the Oresteia of Aeschylus, set in New England during the American Civil War.
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Eugene O'Neill
birth name: Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill
born: 10/16/1888
died: 11/27/1953
nationality: USA
Biography
One of the greatest American playwrights and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore