A Full Moon in March
first edition
1935 · London
by YEATS, W. B.
London: Macmillan and Co Ltd, 1935. First edition. One of 2000 copies printed. Wade 182. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Lennox Robinson on the front endpaper: "For Lennox from WBY, November 28, 1935."A Full Moon in March was published on November 22. Robinson, the Irish playwright, was manager of the Abbey Theatre from 1909 until 1914, and was associated with the theatre from 1918 until his death as producer and director. In July 1934, he directed the premier performance of Yeats's The King of the Great Clock Tower, the play that Yeats reconceived and revised in A Full Moon in March. A superb association copy, in fine condition. 8vo, original green cloth, dust jacket. A superb association copy, in fine condition. (Inventory #: 22983)