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Mourning Becomes Electra: A Trilogy
by O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone (1888-1953)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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About This Item
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.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS003168a
- Title
- Mourning Becomes Electra: A Trilogy
- Author
- O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone (1888-1953)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Horace Liveright Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1932
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Plays
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
- Size
- Octavo
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
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