The Poetical Works and Other Writings – John Keats

The works of John Keats in four volumes, two of prose and two of poetry. Includes poems and letters by Keats, as well as notes and appendices by Harry Buxton Forman. London: Reeves and Turner, 1883. Three-quarter leather with marbled covered boards, with gilt stamped and banded spines. Previous ownership name and date at each title page. Volume four has a gouge on the front, volume two has surface scratch at spine, general shelf wear on all. Minor foxing. Very Good.

Provenance: Each volume bears a Carlotta and Eugene O’Neill bookplate. Carlotta’s fourth marriage was to O’Neill; his third marriage. O’Neill had instructed his publisher to wait 25 years after his death before publishing Long Day’s Journey Into Night, however, Carlotta took the play to another publisher, whereupon it was published less than 18 months after O’Neill died. The play was produced in 1956 on Broadway and won a Pulitzer Prize for O’Neill posthumously.