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Bax, C (ed). Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw and WB Yeats. The Cuala Press, 1941.
Price: US$7.54 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,350grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.65 + shipping
Description: 8vo., grey boards, oatmeal holland back, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped glassine dustwrapper. The original edition was limited to 500 numbered copies.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Bax, Clifford editor. Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw And W.B. Yeats. The Cuala Press 1941, 1941.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: White cloth spine over blue paper-covered boards. 500 numbered copies. Pages unopened. Neat ballpoint ownership, fine in custom cut mylar cover.
Seller: Herland Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Bax, Clifford editor. Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw and W B Yeats. Cuala Press, Dublin, 1941.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 85p octavo. 1/500 copies this copy #140. A very good copy in blue boards and cream cloth spine, wearing to the corners.Front inner hinge cracked, front corner slight crease. Tiny bookplate
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. Copy #226. Edited by Clifford Bax. Set in Caslon type and printed by Esther Ryan and Maire Gill. Paper-covered boards with quarter cloth spine and printed label. Corner shelfwear, paper cover on rear board with three inch shallow crease and two small tears where it has lifted from the cloth spine, beginning toning on front board topedge, spine label with edgewear and cloth spine lightly rubbed. Lacks glassine dustwrapper. Tight, clean copy in Very Good condition.
Seller: REVERE BOOKS, abaa/ilab & ioba, Fernandina Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: Fine. Consists of letters among the three authors, with 40 pages of Yeats' letters to Farr. Wade 327, Miller 68. 8vo: xvi, 87 p Dark blue paper-covered boards and endpapers, buff linen spine with paper label
Seller: Blue Whale Books, ABAA, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Farr, Florence; Shaw, Bernard; Yeats, W.B.. Letters to Florence Farr. The Cuala Press, Dublin, 1941.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Correspondence by three giants of the Irish literary theatre. Not much can be said about Yeats and Shaw; but the fascinating actress/feminist Florence Farr (1860-1917) is less-known today. Among other attributes, she was a Muse for Yeats and the first actress to perform Ibsen in England. This is a Very Good copy of the True First Edition, which was LIMITED to 500 copies. Not common today. Edited by the English dramatist Clifford Bax (1886-1962). Blue-gray paper-covered boards with a linen spine; paper label on the spine, titling in black on the front cover. Clean text; unpaginated for eight pages, then 85 pages. Printed by Esther Ryan and Maire Gill on Irish paper. Bumped, with some creasing to the front cover; erasures to the FFEP. Lacking the glassine wrapper; in an archival plastic protector. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Bax, Clifford editor. Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw and W. B. Yeats. Cuala Press, Dublin, 1941.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 85p octavo 1/500 numbered copies, this copy #63 . A fine copy in the original dust jacket, chipped on the spine and darkened.
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Bax, Clifford. Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw and W. B. Yeats. The Cuala Press, Dublin, 1941.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Linen backed blue boards. Small inked name, light sunning to edges, else fine in custom mylar cover.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$154.59 + shipping
Description: xii + 87pp. Limited to 500 copies. Cloth backed boards with paper label on spine. Chipped and frayed glassine d/w, lacking small portions from top and bottom of spine and with number neatly penned to front. Bookplate inside front cover. 21x15cms.
Seller: Jane & John Kinnaird, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Price: US$154.59 + shipping
Description: Limited edition of 500 copies, this being no 197. Hardback. 8vo. (x), 85pp. Linen backed boards. Printed label to spine. Original glassine wrapper. Set in Caslon type and printed by Esther Ryan and Maire Gill on paper made in Ireland. Letters between Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw and W. B. Yeats. Book in very good condition. Slight bumping to corners and minor soiling to linen. Very light and sporadic spotting to text block edges. Glassine wrapper worn at spine with quite a bit of loss, what remains of the spine is discoloured.
Seller: Ariadne Books, PBFA, Eynsham, Witney, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$170.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition Limited to 500 numbered copies. Near fine in 1/4 beige cloth over navy paper covered boards, white paper label to the spine printed in black. 8vo. 85 pp. Edited with a preface by Clifford Bax. A sterling correspondence between W.B. Yeats and Florence Farr and George Bernard Shaw and Florence Farr. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Price: US$186.80 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. pp [xii], 85. Linen backed boards. One of 500 copies. Three page Prefatory Note by Clifford Bax. Forty-one pages of letters from W.B. Yeats to Florence Farr. This section is introduced by George Yeats. Forty-one pages of letters from Bernard Shaw to Florence Farr - this section is introduced by Shaw himself.On the front pastedown is the bookplate of Richard Martin Baxter. One the front free endpaper he has pasted three small cuttings from booksellers' catalogues. Some faint fading to the edges of the covers. Very good indeed.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$193.24 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Set in Caslon and printed in black on Irish handmade paper. One of 500 copies. Ornaments by T. Sturge Moore. Quarter natural canvas with printed label (slightly chipped), blue paper-covered sides with matching endpapers. A very good to fine copy. Presented by Sean a Sion (?) to Val Gielgud (radio producer and brother of John Gielgud), with a presentation note "Souvenir of his radio triumph with 'Joan' [presumably Shaw's 'Saint Joan'] and the G.B.S. Letter. In appreciation". (Wade 327)
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$276.22 + shipping
Description: Limited edition number 263 (ex 500). With the original scarce tissue wrapper
Seller: Healy Rare Books, Galway, Ireland
Bax, Clifford. Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw, and W. B. Yeats. Cuala Press, Dublin, 1941.
Price: US$403.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. (xvi), (88)pp., unopened. First edition, one of 500 copies - this copy out of series. Title-page device of a hawk attacking a small bird by T. Sturge Moore, and colophon printed in red. A collection of letters, edited by Clifford Bax, between actress Florence Farr, playwright Bernard Shaw, and author W. B. Yeats. Publisher's cloth-backed boards show slight rubbing to corners. Near fine overall. (Miller 68).
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$966.20 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, presentation copy from Georgie Yeats, number 17 of 500 copies. This copy has a Cuala Press compliments slip inscribed "Sent at the request of Mrs W. B. Yeats" and also two pieces of Cuala ephemera: one Cuala Press advertisement for the Broadsides New Series, and a card reprinting from A Broadside "The Midland Toast: Long road and stoney ditches / And here's to nice girls / And to hell with riches" beneath a coloured woodcut by Jack Yeats. This publication is a collection of letters from Shaw and Yeats to Florence Farr (1860-1917). Farr was an actress, director, journalist, women's rights activist, and chief adept of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. She attended Queen's College, the first woman's college in England, and alongside this work and a second novel published several academic texts on occult history and literary theory, and a feminist treatise, Modern Woman: Her Intentions, in 1910. Wade 327. Octavo. Original white cloth-backed blue boards, printed paper label to spine, title to front board black, blue endpapers, pages uncut. Vignette illustration to title page. Bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. Spine label a little tanned and chipped, boards faded around the edges, but a sound copy, internally clean and generally very good.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom