Literature
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The Lemon Tree.
London: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd, 1937. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[18]; 29; [1]. Publisher's grey cloth with blue titles to spine, dust-jacket made by The Temple Press, with printed price of 2s 6d to flap. Light toning to board edges and spine, slight sunning to dust-jacket..... More
Irish Short Stories.
London: Faber and Faber, 1932. [Short Story Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.428; [4]. Publisher's green cloth with red titles to spine. With the green dust-jacket priced at 3/6. Small blue ink ownership to flyleaf. Light spotting and browning to edges and endpapers. Jacket with chips and closed..... More
The Yellow Book, an Illustrated Quarterly. Volume XIII, April 1897.
London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1897. [Aesthetic Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 17cm), pp.316 [16]. With 18 black and white plates by various artists, including the Scottish painter D.Y. Cameron, each with a tissue-guard. Publisher's yellow cloth with titles and decoration in black. All edges untrimmed..... More
The Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1934. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp. vi; 617; [1]. In publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original plain light brown dust-jacket, with titles to spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. Front free endpaper cancelled. Light spotting to prelims. Jacket toned..... More
Autobiographies. Combines the previous works Reveries Over Childhood and Youth [1914] and The Trembling of the Veil [1922].
London: Macmillan and Co., 1926. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[x] 477; [1], blank; [2], advertisements. Five illustrations including a colour plate by Jack B Yeats. Publisher's mid-green cloth lettered in gilt to spine and front board decorated in blind, illustrated endpapers, edges untrimmed, pictorial dust-wrapper. Tiny..... More
Collected Plays of W.B. Yeats.
London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1952. [Plays] EXPANDED SELECTION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[8] 705; [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and device to spine, frontispiece of a drawing of Yeats by J.S. Sargent, R.A., dust-jacket with printed price 18s to front flap. Textblock top edge tinted red. A...... More
Deirdre.
Stratford-Upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1911. [Irish Drama] EARLY EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.32. Publisher's dark grey sewn paper covers, priced at 1s. Quite roughly opened, with some marks and chips to edges. Blue pencil ownership to front cover, with moderate wear and creases to covers. Spine quite heavily toned..... More
Letters on Poetry from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley.
London: Oxford University Press, 1940. [Literary Letters] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 216. With a black and white photographic frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge blue. With the plain typographic dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. Blue ink ownership to fly-leaf, otherwise internally clean. Jacket..... More
On Baile's Strand.
London: A.H. Bullen, 1907. [Drama] ACTING EDITION. Small octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.35 [1]. Publisher's grey paper covers, titled to front covers. Sewing split; essentially disbound. Some spotting to edges and preliminaries. Covers split to spine, and re-attached with archival tape. Good. More
Plays in Prose and Verse. Written for an Irish Theatre, and Generally with the Help of a Friend.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1922. [Plays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[12]; 447; [5]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, with blind embossed detailing to spine and front board. Pictorial print to front and rear pastedown. Untrimmed edges. Internally clean, browning to textblock top edge, spine..... More
Reveries Over Childhood and Youth.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1916. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[x] 213; [iii]. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine and front board with gilt illustration. Colour frontispiece, in-text illustration of 'Mrs Yeats' between pp.54-55. Lovely copy, internally bright and clean, minor toning to head edge..... More
The Shadowy Waters.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1900. [Dramatic poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.57 [3]. Publisher's dark blue ribbed cloth, gilt titles to spine, gilt floral motif with dropped petal to upper board, top edge gilt others untrimmed. Bookseller's ticket and a discreet date inscription to pastedown. Some..... More
The Tower.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1928. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.vi; 110; [2] publisher's advertisements. Bound in mid-green cloth, handsomely blocked in gilt to spine and upper board, fore and tail edges untrimmed, illustrated dust-wrapper priced at 6/- net. A fine copy of the book in an..... More
Per Amica Silentia Lunae [Through the Friendly Silences of Moon].
London: Macmillan and Co., 1918. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.vi; 95. Publisher's gilt-embossed blue cloth designed by T Sturge Moore, edges untrimmed, in original printed dust-wrapper, priced at 4/6 net. Book is fine, jacket browned to extremities, chipped to crown and foot. Very good. A poetic exposition of Yeat's visionary worldview..... More
Wheels and Butterflies. New Plays.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1933. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[x]; 181; [1], imprint; [2], blank. Publisher's gilt-embossed green cloth, edges untrimmed, in original printed dust-wrapper, priced at 6/- net. Book is fine, jacket lightly worn to crown and foot. Generally a crisp, fine copy. A collection of five plays, all..... More
Wheels and Butterflies. New Plays.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1933. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[x]; 181; [1], imprint; [2], blank. Publisher's gilt-embossed green cloth, edges untrimmed, in original printed dust-wrapper, priced at 6/- net. Page edges toned otherwise a fine copy of the book, in a very good wrapper, toned to spine..... More
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