Per Amica Silentia Lunae
by Yeats
New York: Macmillan, 1918. First American Edition marked "Special Limited Edition.. 98, [6, ads] pp. Printed at the Norwood Press. Grey blue decorated boards by Sturge Moore. About Fine. First American Edition marked "Special Limited Edition." 98, [6, ads] pp. Printed at the Norwood Press. Wade 121
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A Broadside. Published Monthly ... [Cuala Press Broadsides. First Series]
by Yeats, Jack B.
Churchtown & Dublin: Dun Emer and Cuala Press, 1915. One of 300 copies. Illustrations after drawings by Jack B. Yeats, many hand-colored. Printed on cartridge paper made at Saggart Mill in County Dublin, text in handset Caslon type. 84 numbers in all. 3 vols. Small folio (11 x 7-1/2 inches). In 3 blue linen portfolios with upper covers with hand-colored pictorial label after design by Jack B. Yeats. Very light and very scattered spotting in a few volumes, but... Read More
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Sligo
by Yeats, Jack B.
London: Wishart & Company, 1930. First edition. 158 pp. 8vo. In publisher's green cloth, with gilt spine somewhat sunned and lightly soiled, bottom edge uncut, spotting to half-title, pages clean and bright, remnants of censor's sticker to rear pastedown. First edition. 158 pp. 8vo.
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The Bosun and the Bob-Tailed Comet
by Yeats, Jack B.
London: Elkin Matthews, 1903. Second printing (the first being 1902). [14] unpaginnated leaves, fully illustrated with two pages of ads at rear. 8vo. Outer protective gray chemise boards with title along spine are toned and split along spine but remain intact. Fully illustrated wrappers have subtle chipping at center of spine on recto, light bumped lower corner and some toning. Inner leaves have some foxing, mostly at front and rear of book, but pages are bright with hand-colored illustrations... Read More
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Passages from the Letters of John Butler Yeats: Selected by Ezra Pound
by Yeats, John Butler
Churchtown, Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1917. First edition, limited to 400 copies ["Published and printed by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, on paper made in Ireland..."]. [xii], 61pp. 8vo. Linen spine, publisher's printed paper label on spine, blue paper-covered boardsLight foxing and tanning on linen spine, spine label is browned (with early glue mend), and the fragile label has uneven chipping (just touching one letter in printed spine title), few spots of foxing and light soiling to extremities of covers, else... Read More
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Leda and the Swan
by Yeats, W. B.
[Florence]: Privately Printed, 1937. First separate edition (edition of 22), this one "special copy in Tuscany" so designated by Prokosch, and signed by him in red ink beneath. With a small watercolor frontispiece drawing signed beneath in pencil, Frederic Prokosch. [8] pages. 1 vols. 16mo. Original gold-on-black geometric-design wrappers, printed paper label on front cover. Prokosch bookplate, signed by him, with his annotations on flyleaf, altering date to 1937. A few spots of light, scattered foxing on front and... Read More
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Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca
by Yeats, W.B., editor
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. First Edition. Frontis by Jack Yeats. viii, 236, 7, [1[], ads.pp. 12mo. Cream cloth, stamped in blue, dceorated blue edges. VG. First Edition. Frontis by Jack Yeats. viii, 236, 7, [1[], ads.pp. 12mo. Wade, 217
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The Shadowy Waters
by Yeats, W.B.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1900. First edition. 57 pp. 4to. Blue Cloth with gilt, rubbing to head of spine, lightest rubbing to corners; ink smudge and date to ffep, otherwise near fine. First edition. 57 pp. 4to. Includes the poem "I walked among the seven woods of Coole" and the mystical titular play, one of Yeats' early dramas. Wade 30
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THE DOME. (Number Two). A Quarterly containing Examples of All the Arts
by (Yeats, W.B)
London: The Unicorn Press, 1897. First edition. 118 pp.; 9 illustrated plates, one is a colored woodcut by W. Nicholson (printed from 4 blocks); [xiii] pages of ads at rear ; illustrated publisher's endpapers at front. 8vo. Gray paper boards with black lettering that has chipping at head and foot of the spine, light foxing to endpapers, pages remain uncut; overall a very good copy. Rossetti, D.G.; White, Gleeson. First edition. 118 pp.; 9 illustrated plates, one is... Read More
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The Poems
by Yeats, W.B.
London: The Macmillan Company, 1949. Limited edition, number 116 of 375 copies published posthumously, though with pages signed by the poet before his death. Photogravure portrait frontispieces of Yeats by Emery Walker after John Singer Sargent and Augustus John, with tissue guards. [3, blank], [1, limitation leaf], ix, [1, blank], 274, [1], [1, printer's imprint]; xii, 306, [1], [1, printer's imprint] pp. 2 vols. Tall 8vo. Olive green buckram over bevelled boards, stamped in gilt with monogram of author's... Read More
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The Land of Heart's Desire
by Yeats, W. B.
Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1894. First American edition, limited to 450 copies. pp. [iv], 45, illustrated (with frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley). 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. pp. [iv], 45, illustrated (with frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley). 12mo. First American edition... Read More
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The Land of Heart's Desire
by Yeats, W. B.
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1903. First American ("published") revised edition, limited to 100 numbered copies on "Japan vellum," signed by Thomas B. Mosher, Copy #85. pp. vi, 36. 16mo. The spine is slightly tanned and a bit creased, lightly rubbed at tips of spine and corners, else a very good copy, with the text fresh and clean. F.M. William 1903 ownrship inscription. First American ("published") revised edition, limited to 100 numbered copies on "Japan vellum," signed by... Read More
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STORIES OF RED HANRAHAN: THE SECRET ROSE: ROSE ALCHEMICA
by Yeats, W. B.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. First American edition [Wade 105; copyright page states "New and Revised Edition"-- Wade does not state if the American text differs from the English edition published in 1913]. vi, 242pp. 8vo. Endpapers moderately browned, else a fine copy, binding very fresh and clean, in printed dust jacket. The white printed jacket has a small chip at top of spine, with dust soiling, else quite bright. First American edition [Wade 105; copyright page... Read More
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The Tower
by Yeats, W.B.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1928. First edition, one of only 2000 copies printed. 110, [2] pp. 8vo. Original green cloth with gilt tower design by T. Sturge Moore. Near fine copy in near fine illustrated dust-jacket (a small inner tear at head of front fold. Moore, Thomas Sturge. First edition, one of only 2000 copies printed. 110, [2] pp. 8vo. First edition of one of Yeats' finest books, containing "Sailing to Byzantium", "The Tower", "Leda and the Swan",... Read More
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Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose
by Yeats, W.B.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1927. First edition. 182 pp [viii] Illustrated color frontispiece, one further color plate, and numerous black and white illustrations throughout. 8vo. A fine, bright copy; scarce in illustrated red boards. McGuinness, Norah. First edition. 182 pp [viii] Illustrated color frontispiece, one further color plate, and numerous black and white illustrations throughout. 8vo.
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The Shadow Waters
by Yeats, W. B.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1901. First American edition, variant binding not noted by Wade [see Wade 31, describing binding as "grey boards with white paper label..."]. 64pp. Large 8vo. Both hinges are just started, fragile binding has moderate wear at extremities, with light soiling, else a good to very good copy, with the text quite fresh and clean. First American edition, variant binding not noted by Wade [see Wade 31, describing binding as "grey boards with... Read More
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STORIES OF RED HANRAHAN: THE SECRET ROSE: ROSE ALCHEMICA
by Yeats, W. B.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. First American edition. Owner's ink name, dated 1937, on front flyleaf; spine label slightly chipped, else a near fine copy in printed dust jacket. The scarce, white, printed dust jacket is moderately dust soiled, with a one-inch chip on lower spine, with a smaller chip at crown of spine, else very good. First American edition.
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Portrait photograph of W.B. Yeats
by (Yeats, W.B) Schell, Sherril
[Victoria, London, 1903. Platinum print on thick-paper mount. 9-3/8 x 7-1/2 inches. Top left corner of the print ruffled, one or two very faint surface scratches, otherwise excellent, the mount a little ruffled at the corners and with some minor glue-related abrasions to verso. Platinum print on thick-paper mount. 9-3/8 x 7-1/2 inches. This portrait of a pensive W. B. Yeats was taken by London-based American photographer Sherril V. Schell (1877-1964), who during the first decades of the... Read More
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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 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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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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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 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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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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