Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

The Iceman Cometh. With Drawings by Leonard Baskin [SIGNED]

O'Neill, Eugene

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1982. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Baskin on colophon. 197/1000. Quarto. xv (iv),153 (1)pp., 1 plate. Gray paper covered boards with printed cover plate in slipcase with printed label on spine. Written in 1939, first published in 1940, and premiered on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on October 9, 1946, O'Neill's play revolves around a Greenwich Village pub and rooming house in New York inhabited by drunks and prostitutes. Written from a decidedly disillusioned perspective, O'Neill alludes to his crestfallen feelings towards American economic ideals and the human capacity for envy, revenge, and bitterness. Typographical arrangement and illustrations by Leonard Baskin, including one original lithograph, reproduced by The Meriden Gravure Company. Limited Editions Club publications with the Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Club from March 1982 laid-in. Slipcase lightly rubbed. Spine lightly sunned. Overall very good condition. vg. Item #21883

Price: $150.00