Mourning Becomes Electra: A Trilogy by O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone

256 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and faux gilt signature to cover with green edge ruled decoration in original pictorial jacket. Ninth printing. Mourning Becomes Electra, trilogy of plays by Eugene O Neill, produced and published in 1931. The trilogy, consisting of Homecoming (four acts), The Hunted (five acts), and The Haunted (four acts), was modeled on the Oresteia trilogy of Aeschylus and represents O Neill s most complete use of Greek forms, themes, and characters. O Neill set his trilogy in the New England of the American Civil War period. Condition: Spine dulled, covers lightly rubbed and soiled. Jacket price clipped, corners, spine ends chipped, 1/2" x 1" chip at back head edge, spine age toned else very good in like jacket.

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1932. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1932. First Edition. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with heavy foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have been moderately rub worn, with noticeable shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a little frayed and spine ends are crushed, with small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

Paperback / softback. New. A three-part reworking of themes from Greek tragedy, set in New England just after the Civil War. General Ezra Mannon (Agamemnon), is poisoned by his unfaithful wife Christine (Clytemnestra) and then avenged by his son Orin (Orestes) and daughter Lavinia (Electra).

Hardback. New.