The Winding Stair
by Yeats, William Butler
London: Macmillan, 1933. First trade edition, one of 2,000. 101, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt spine designed by T. Sturge Moore. Fine in Very Good slightly chipped dust jacket. First trade edition, one of 2,000. 101, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. An attractive copy of this important collection of late-career Yeats, gathering together some of his finest work from the period, including "Byzantium," "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop" and other Crazy Jane poems,... Read More
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The Land of Heart's Desire
by Yeats, William Butler
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1903. Second edition, one of 950 copies on Van Gelder hand-made paper. vi, 33, [1] pp. Type 10-point Caslon old-style. 1 vols. 12mo. Bound in grey paper over boards, with printed paper label on spine and upper cover. Bottom of spine chipped. Second edition, one of 950 copies on Van Gelder hand-made paper. vi, 33, [1] pp. Type 10-point Caslon old-style. 1 vols. 12mo. Yeats did not approve of Mosher's piracies - this... Read More
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The Land of Heart's Desire
by Yeats, William Butler
Poertlnd, Maine: PRIVATELY PRINTED {by Thomas B. Mosher], 1903. First American revised edition, "Privately Printed" issue, limited to 32 numbered copies, "printed on Japan vellum by Thomas B. Mosher for presentation to his friends" [this is copy number "3"]. [cxvi], 28, [3]pp. 12mo. Bound in contemporary full brown morocco ("Bound by Macdonalds" stamped in gilt on rear pastedown, and with "E. P. Dutton & Co., N.Y." stamped in gilt on front pastedown), single gilt rule on front and rear... Read More
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The Land of the Heart's Desire
by Yeats, William Butler
Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1894. First American edition, limited to 450 copies. Illustrated (with frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley). pp. [iv], 45. 12mo. Spine and covers slightly rubbed at extremities, paper spine label rubbed and moderately browned, small separation at top edge of front hinge (just started), else a near fine, unopened copy, with the text fresh and clean. First American edition, limited to 450 copies. Illustrated (with frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley). pp. [iv], 45. 12mo. Wade 11; Kramer... Read More
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If I Were Four-and-Twenty
by Yeats, William Butler
Dublin: Cuala Press, 1940. First edition, no. 168 of 450 copies. Unicorn pressmark on title page. [iv], 67, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original linen backed boards. Fine copy in glassine. First edition, no. 168 of 450 copies. Unicorn pressmark on title page. [iv], 67, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Two essays, If I Were Four-and-Twenty (1919), and Swedenborg, Mediums, and the Desolate Places (1914). A nice posthumous edition. Wade 205; Miller 65
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Reveries Over Childhood and Youth [with:] Plates to Accompany Reveries Over Childhood and Youth
by Yeats, William Butler
Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1915. First edition, one of 425 copies. Woodcut title device and one other decoration by Sturge Moore. Text printed in red and black. [viii], 127, [1] pp. Portfolio of 3 plates with letterpress leaf. 2 vols. 8vo. Original grey boards lettered in black, tan linen spine. Galwey & Co. binder's ticket. Near fine copy (slight toning to spine as usual, small scuff at head; some edge wear to mount of Memory Harbour). First edition,... Read More
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A Packet for Ezra Pound
by Yeats, William Butler
Dublin, Ireland: The Cuala Press, 1929. First edition, limited to 425 copies "on paper made in Ireland and published by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats at the Cuala Press. Woodcut title device by T. Sturge Moore. viii, 48 pp. 8vo. Linen spine, publisher's printed paper spine label, paper-covered boards. Spine and spine label lightly tanned, with small, light brown soil mark on lower spine, else a near fine, unopened copy. Bookplate of Claude Smith. First edition, limited to 425 copies... Read More
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Two Plays for Dancers
by Yeats, William Butler
Churchtown, Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1919. First edition, one of 400 copies. Woodcut title device by T. Sturge Moore. [iv], 38, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's linen-backed blue boards, titled in black on front cover, paper spine label. Fine in glassine dust-jacket. Bookplate after Jack Yeats drawing. First edition, one of 400 copies. Woodcut title device by T. Sturge Moore. [iv], 38, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Wade 123; Miller 28
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The Tower
by Yeats, William Butler
New York, 1928. First American edition. 110 pp. Printed at the Norwood Press, J.S. Cushing Co., with the Thomas Sturge Moore design featuring Thoore Ballylee. 8vo. Cloth. Fine in very good dust jacket (nick at head of spine panel). First American edition. 110 pp. Printed at the Norwood Press, J.S. Cushing Co., with the Thomas Sturge Moore design featuring Thoore Ballylee. 8vo. First American edition of one of Yeats' great books, containing "Sailing to Byzantium", "The Tower", "Leda... Read More
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The Land of Heart's Desire
by Yeats, William Butler
San Francisco: [Printed for C. F. Benoit by the Brothers at] The Windsor Press, 1926. One of 750 copies on hand made Rye Mill paper. vii, 27 pp. 1 vols. 16mo. Original cloth backed boards. Some soiling to spine, else very good plus. One of 750 copies on hand made Rye Mill paper. vii, 27 pp. 1 vols. 16mo.
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The Tower
by Yeats, William Butler
London: Macmillan, 1928. First edition, one of only 2000 copies printed. v, 110, 2 [ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth with gilt tower design by T. Sturge Moore. A bright, near fine copy in matching blue-green dust jacket with minor wear to extremities including a few short tears to folds. Moore, Thomas Sturge. First edition, one of only 2000 copies printed. v, 110, 2 [ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition of one of Yeats' great... Read More
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The Winding Stair
by Yeats, William Butler
New York: The Fountain Press, 1929. First edition, one of 642 numbered copies, signed by the author on the half-title. Printed at the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge on Kalmar Paper. Designed by Frederic Warde. 26, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth with two small red morocco spine title labels. Slight rubbing to head and tail of spine. Near fine. Warde, Frederic. First edition, one of 642 numbered copies, signed by the author on the... Read More
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The Death of Synge and Other Passages from an Old Diary
by Yeats, William Butler
Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1928. First edition, published by the poet's sister Elizabeth Corbet Yeats in an edition of only 400 copies. 35, [3] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original linen and boards. Fine in chipped glassine. First edition, published by the poet's sister Elizabeth Corbet Yeats in an edition of only 400 copies. 35, [3] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Wade 162; Miller 41
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Early Poems and Stories
by Yeats, William Butler
New York: The Macmillan Co, 1925. First American edition. 528 pp. [x]. 8vo. Green boards with black lettering on spine, publisher's illustrated plates on pastedown at front and back, near fine, in illustrated clipped dust-jacket designed by Charles Ricketts that has light chipping along edges and at head and foot of spine, partial separation along spine on front with older inner mends; an attractive very good copy. First American edition. 528 pp. [x]. 8vo.
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The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats
by Yeats, William Butler
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1957. First edition, no. 288 of 825 copies signed by Yeats. Edited by Peter Alt and Russell K. Alspach. xxxvi, 884 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Publisher's two-toned cloth; black topstain. Fine in slightly soiled publisher's slipcase, with bookplate and related typed letter signed. First edition, no. 288 of 825 copies signed by Yeats. Edited by Peter Alt and Russell K. Alspach. xxxvi, 884 pp. 1 vols. 4to. A signed, limited edition of a... Read More
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The Midnight Court and The Adventures of a Luckless Fellow. Translated from the Gaelic by Percy Arland Ussher. With a Preface by W. B. Yeats & Woodcuts by Frank W. Peers
by (Yeats, William Butler) Ussher, Percy Arland
London: Cape, 1926. First edition. 79pp. 8vo. Orange cloth. Fine in near fine unclipped dustjacket. First edition. 79pp. 8vo.
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The Death of Synge and Other Passages from an Old Diary
by Yeats, William Butler
Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1928. First edition, published by the poet's sister Elizabeth Corbet Yeats in an edition of only 400 copies. 35, [3] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original linen and boards. Fine in glassine. Bookplate. First edition, published by the poet's sister Elizabeth Corbet Yeats in an edition of only 400 copies. 35, [3] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Wade 162; Miller 41
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The Winding Stair
by Yeats, William Butler
New York: The Fountain Press, 1929. First edition, number 113 of 642 numbered copies, signed by the author on the half-title. Printed at the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge on Kalmar Paper. Designed by Frederic Warde. 26, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt, red morocco title labels, t.e.g. Fine. Warde, Frederic. First edition, number 113 of 642 numbered copies, signed by the author on the half-title. Printed at the Printing House of William... Read More
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The Land of Heart's Desire
by Yeats, William Butler
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1909. First published revised edition, alternate printing, 1/500 on Japanese vellum. [xxviii], 31 pp. 8vo. Cream colored paper boards with yapp edges and green lettering with lightest soiling, near fine. First published revised edition, alternate printing, 1/500 on Japanese vellum. [xxviii], 31 pp. 8vo. Hatch 406; Bishop 187; Wade 13a
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Yeats Centenary Papers. Numbers I-6, 8 & 9. Number One:MALINS, Edward. YEARS AND THE EASTER RISING. no. 2. LISTER, Raymond. BEULAH TO BYZANTIUM: a Study of parallels in the works of W.B.Yeats, William Blake, Samuel Palmer & Edward Calvert. no. 3. ALSPACH, Russell K. YEATS AND INNISFREE. no. 4. TELFER, W.L. YEATS'S IDEA OF THE GAEL.no. 5. FAULKNER, Peter. YEATS & THE IRISH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. no. 6. ISHIBASHI, Hiro. YEATS AND THE NOH: Types of Japanese beauty. no. 8. BRADFORD, Curtis. YEATS'S 'LAST POEMS' AGAIN. no. 9. HARPER, George Mills. YEATS'S QUEST FOR EDEN. no. XI Yeats and Joyce. By Richard Ellman. no. XII. YEATS ANDF MUSIC. By Edward Mallins WITH Preliminbaries and Index
by (Yeats, William Butler) Miller, Liam, General Editor
Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1966. 11 vols. 8vo. Brown wrappers. Fiune. 11 vols. 8vo.
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The Hour-Glass and Other Plays
by Yeats, William Butler
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904. First trade edition. 113pp. Binding is lightly faded on spine, with moderate wear at tips of spine, slightly bumped at tips of corners, else a very good copy. First trade edition. 113pp. Feminist Gertrude Robinson-Smith's copy, with her attractive, early pictorial bookplate on front pastedown. Born in New York City in 1880, to a wealthy family, she worked for numerous causes, was President of the Vaccination Society, raised funds for refugees during... Read More
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Twenty One Poems ... Selected by William Butler Yeats
by (Yeats, William Butler) Johnson, Lionel
Dundrun: The Dun Emer Press, 1904. First edition, one of two hundred twenty copies. xvi, 40 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue paper boards, linen spine, printed paper spine label. Very good, with an unusual color-printed bookplate of "AF" on the front pastedown. Free endpapers a bit discolored. First edition, one of two hundred twenty copies. xvi, 40 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Lionel Johnson (1867-1902), educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, affiliated with the Rhymers' Club, is also... Read More
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Responsibilities: Poems and a Play
by Yeats, William Butler
Churchtown, Dundrum, [Dublin]: Cuala Press, 1914. First Edition. [4] ff. (blank), [8], 74, [7], [1, blank], [1, colophon (verso blank)] pp., [4] ff. (blank). 1 vols. 8vo. Linen spine and printed boards, with label on front pastedown Bound by Galwey & Co. Eustace St., Dublin. Bookplate of Pete Laney. First Edition. [4] ff. (blank), [8], 74, [7], [1, blank], [1, colophon (verso blank)] pp., [4] ff. (blank). 1 vols. 8vo. "In these poems Yeats, influenced by his young... Read More
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The Land of the Heart's Desire
by Yeats, William Butler
Portland: Mosher, 1894. First American ("published") revised edition. Number 85 of 100 ON JAPAN VELLUM, SIGNED BY THOMAS BIRD MOSHER. pp. [iv], 45, illustrated (with frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley). 12mo. Japan vellum. First American ("published") revised edition. Number 85 of 100 ON JAPAN VELLUM, SIGNED BY THOMAS BIRD MOSHER. pp. [iv], 45, illustrated (with frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley). 12mo. Wade 11; Kramer 25
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Four Plays for Dancers
by Yeats, William Butler
London: Macmillan and Co, 1921. First edition. Half-tone frontispiece and other illustrations by Edmund Dulac. 1 vols. Square 8vo. Original gray boards printed in black after a design by Sturge Moore, black cloth spine with printed paper label. Toning to endpapers from jacket flaps otherwise fine in brown printed dustjacket with some toning to spine. Laid into a blue cloth drop box. First edition. Half-tone frontispiece and other illustrations by Edmund Dulac. 1 vols. Square 8vo. Signed on... Read More
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