[Rarebooks] FS: Eugene O'Neill Photograph Inscribed to his Wife Carlotta PLUS related material

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              O'NEILL,  Eugene.  SIGNED  PHOTOGRAPH INSCRIBED  TO  HIS
          WIFE with  SIGNED VAN VECHTEN PHOTOGRAPH OF HIS WIFE CARLOTTA
          and SIGNED  PHOTOGRAPH  OF  HIS  SON. Fine  7-3/4"  x  9-3/4"
          studio  portrait  by  Pinchot  of New York  of  the  brooding
          O'Neill  INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the four-time Pulitzer Prize
          Winner  to  his  wife:  "To   Carlotta--/with  all  my  love,
          /Sweetheart!/Gene/Feb.  '35," the year before O'Neill  became
          the first  American playwright to win the Nobel Prize. Signed
          photographs  of  O'Neill  are distinctly  uncommon.  This  is
          perhaps the finest in existence. Accompanied by a 6-1/2" x 8-
          3/4" Carl  Van  Vechten photograph of Carlotta  O'Neill  with
          Van Vechten's  ink  stamp identification on the rear and  red
          ink annotations.  INSCRIBED  and SIGNED on the front  of  the
          photograph    by  Carlotta  "To   Dorothy  &   Saxe--/Dearest
          love/Carlotta  1933."  Saxe  Cummins was  editor  to  William
          Faulkner  among others. Also included is a scarce 5" x 7-1/2"
          photograph  of  Eugene O'Neill, Jr., the playwright's  eldest
          son by  his  first of three wives, Kathleen Jenkins  (O'Neill
          had one  other  son,  Shane,  an  emotionally  unstable  drug
          addict  who  committed suicide and a daughter, Oona, who  was
          cut out  of O'Neill's life when at the age of 18 she  married
          the 54-year  old  Charlie Chaplin.). INSCRIBED and SIGNED  by
          the playwright's  son  to  noted collector  LaFayette  Butler
          "with gratitude  & best wishes." O'Neill's namesake committed
          suicide  in 1950 at the age of 40, likely not very long after
          signing  this photograph and three years before his  father's
          death.  This photograph is tipped at the top verso to a board
          but is    otherwise   Fine.  Near  Fine   to  Fine   and   an
          extraordinary collection.                          $25,000

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