The Hairy Ape, Anna Christie, The First Man.

O'NEILL, Eugene.

Item Number: 10016

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922.

First edition of this collection of three plays by the Nobel Prize-winning playwrite. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Eugene O’Neill on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.  Jacket showing a photograph of the Hairy Ape on the front panel and of Anna Christie on the rear panel. Uncommon signed.

One of the most significant plays of the twentieth century, Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape is still as startlingly fresh and innovative as it was when it was first published nearly a hundred years ago. Primal working man Yank feels at home in the harsh but familiar environment of a ship's engine room, but a chance encounter with a wealthy socialite turns his world upside down and throws everything he knows into question.