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(YEATS, W. B.; POUND, Ezra) FENOLLOSA, Ernest.
Certain Noble Plays of Japan: From the Manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa, Chosen and Finished by Ezra Pound, with an Introduction by William Butler Yeats. 1916
£325
First edition, one of 350 numbered copies - the entire edition. Fenollosa was an American academic who became Curator of the Imperial Museum of Japan and Curator of Oriental Art at...
Octavo. Original tan cloth backed grey boards, printed titles to cover, grey endpapers. Label on front pastedown "Bound by Galwey & Co. Eustace St. Dublin". One... Read more
(YEATS, W. B.; POUND, Ezra) FENOLLOSA, Ernest.
Certain Noble Plays of Japan: From the Manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa. 1916
£375
First edition, one of 350 numbered copies - the entire edition. Includes a card advertising a book of extracts from the letters of John Butler Yeats to W. B. Yeats. Fenollosa was an...
Octavo. Original tan cloth backed grey boards, printed titles to cover, grey endpapers. Label on front pastedown "Bound by Galwey & Co. Eustace St. Dublin". Ownership... Read more
(YEATS, W. B.) BLAKE, William.
The Works Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical. 1893
£2,000
First editions thus, first impressions. Blake had a profound effect on Yeats, and this handsomely presented three-volume edition and study stands as the most significant piece of...
3 volumes, large octavo. Original green cloth, titles and elaborate decoration to spines and upper boards gilt, green coated endpapers, top edges gilt, others... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
A Vision. 1937
£150
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spotting and dampstaining to boards extending to the lower edges of endpapers and early and... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
Autobiographies: 1926
£375
First edition, first impression. A beautiful copy.
Octavo (190 × 125 mm). Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, spine and upper board blocked in blind, illustration of a unicorn at a fountain to each... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
Eight Poems. 1916
£1,250
First edition. From a total printing of 200 numbered copies this is one of 122 on Italian handmade paper.
Folio. Original white wrappers printed in black. Housed in a quarter black morocco box. Designs by A. O. Spare. Wrappers lightly marked but an excellent copy. Read more
YEATS, W. B.
Essays by W. B. Yeats. 1931 to 1936. 1937
£375
First, limited edition, one of 300 copies published by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats at the Cuala Press on paper made in Ireland.
Octavo. Original cream quarter cloth over blue paper-covered boards, front side lettered in black, white paper title label to spine lettered in black, edges uncut,... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
Four Plays for Dancers. 1921
£750
First Edition, First Impression. Very uncommon in dust jacket.
Octavo. Original black cloth-backed decorated grey boards, title label to spine printed in black. With the dust jacket. Illustrations by Dulac. From the collection of... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
Four Plays for Dancers. 1921
£275
First edition, first impression. Uncommon in the dust jacket.
Quarto. Original grey boards, printed paper label to spine, pictorial design to upper board in black. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and illustrations within the... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
If I Were Four-and-Twenty. 1940
£375
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original white linen backed blue boards, printed paper label to spine, titles to upper board in black, blue endpapers. Lightly rubbed, spine toned. An... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
Plays and Controversies. 1923
£80
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original green cloth, front board decoratively blind-tooled in art deco design, spine lettered in gilt, front and back pastedown engraved in black, edges... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
Stories of Red Hanrahan. 1904
£450
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 500 copies.
Octavo. Original white cloth backed blue boards, blue endpapers, printed paper labels to spine and upper board. Small bookplate. Lightly rubbed with some wear at the... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
The Book of the Rhymers' Club. 1892 and 1894
£1,000
First editions. The Rhymers' Club was founded by W. B. Yeats in 1890 as an informal poetry society that met at the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street. This set includes both volumes...
2 volumes, small octavo (160 × 120 mm). Both in original cloth, the first with paper label to spine, the second with gilt titles to spine. Housed in custom blue... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
The Collected Works in Verse And Prose. 1908
£3,750
First collected edition, first issue binding. This marvellous piece of publishing coincides with that transitional period in Yeats's development as a writer when the early project is...
8 volumes, octavo. Original quarter vellum, grey cloth boards, titles to upper boards and spines gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Frontis portrait to first... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
The Hearne's Egg. 1938
£275
First Edition, First Impression of this late verse drama.
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Ownership signature in pencil to front free endpaper, spine a little darkened but an excellent... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
The Herne's Egg A Stage Play. 1938
£125
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine a little rolled. An excellent copy in the very lightly rubbed dust jacket with a short... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
The Secret Rose. 1897
£750
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, title and pictorial decoration to spine and boards gilt. Frontispiece and 6 plates by Jack B. Yeats. Ownership inscription to front free... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
The Shadowy Waters. 1900
£650
First edition, first impression.
Small quarto. Original cloth over bevelled boards, front board decorated with rose and fallen petal tooled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
The Shadowy Waters. 1900
£600
First edition, first impression.
Quarto. Original blue vertical-grain cloth, titles to spine, flower design to upper board, and top edge gilt. Cloth a little rubbed and marked, wear to spine ends,... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
The Speckled Bird. 1973
£125
First editions, first impressions. With a Cuala Press invoice addressed to Anne Yeats loosely inserted. One of a limited edition of 500 numbered sets.
2 volumes, octavo. Original white cloth backed blue boards, printed paper labels to spine, titles to upper boards in black, blue endpapers. In the publisher's blue... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
The Tower. 1928
£1,500
First edition, first impression of one of Yeats's most significant collections.
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and elaborate pictorial decoration blocked in gilt to spine and upper board. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
The Tower. 1928
£1,250
First edition, first impression. A stunning copy of what is generally accepted to be Yeats's single most important collection.
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and upper board gilt. Very slight rubbing at extremities, cloth and contents bright and fresh.... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
The Wild Swans at Coole. 1919
£1,750
First US edition, first impression. Originally published in Ireland in 1917. This copy is in superb condition and is inscribed by the author on the title page, "W. B. Yeats Feb 15...
Octavo. Original blue-grey boards, titles and floral decoration to spine and upper board in black. Bookplate and ownership inscription to front endpapers. Spine very... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
The Winding Stair. 1929
£1,750
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 642 numbered copies signed by the author on the half-title.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and floral roll to boards gilt, red morocco labels to spine, purple endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Ownership... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
Wheels and Butterflies. 1934
£1,750
First edition, first impression, signed by Yeats on the title page; Lady Ottoline Morrell's copy, given to her by her daughter, with the contemporary gift inscription on the front...
Octavo. Original blue-green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, design blocked in gilt on front cover, top edge trimmed, others uncut. Includes printed music. Spine a... Read more
