LAZARUS LAUGHED.
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927.
Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. Item #54138
Octavo. 9 x 6". One of 25 Author's copies of signed limited edition of 775 copies. Signed by O'Neill with an additional inscription, "To Doctor Hamilton with all deep gratitude & friendship..."
Decorated paper covered boards with paper vellum spine. Spine browned with brown off-setting (from clipping) to front paste-down. Lacking slipcase.
"At age 37, already famous but still an inordinate consumer of alcohol he (O'Neill )...volunteered to participate in a pre-Kinsey study of human sexuality conducted by a psychiatrist named Dr. Gilbert V. Hamilton...the fatherly physician explained that the playwright drank to bury his Oedipean problems, where upon O'Neill stopped drinking forever." (And stopped writing for 12 years! Notes taken from these sessions were the) "working memoranda for (O'Neill's last and his most famous play) Long Days Journey Into Night" -nytimes.
Price: $250.00