Mourning Becomes Electra

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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.