Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
YEATS (W.B.). ON THE BOILER.:. Dublin: The Cuala Press. 1938., 1938.
Price: US$58.37 + shipping
Description: Reprinted 1971. 4to. 46pp. original blue wrappers.
Seller: SUBUN-SO BOOK STORE, ABAJ-ILAB, Tokyo, Japan
Yeats, W.B.. On the Boiler.. Dublin, The Cuala Press [1938]. [1938]., 1938.
Price: US$87.07 + shipping
Description: 46, (1) pp. Printed wrappers. Extremeties chipped and repaired, otherwise very good.
Seller: Rönnells Antikvariat AB, Stockholm, Sweden
Yeats, W B. On the Boiler. Cuala Press (1938), Dublin, 1938.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 46p + ad. Quarto, chipped along the yapped edges, otherwise a very good copy in pale blue printed wraps.
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Yeats, W. B.. On the Boiler. The Cuala Press, Dublin, 1938.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The second edition ( preceded only by a printing of diminutive number ), published by the Cuala Press in 1938. Bound in publisher's yapped blue wrappers. A very good copy with some chipping and short edge tears to the yapped wrapper edges. Lower section of spine( roughly two inches ) absent. Light signature of author and Professor Barbara Swain to upper edge of front panel. Sold originally by the Irish Bookshop on Lexington Ave in NYC; their stamp appearing to base of half title.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Yeats, William Butler. On The Boiler. The Cuala Press, Dublin, 1938.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Internally clean o/w light soiling to wraps and wear to yapped edges. BP/Yeats/Poetry
Seller: Bookplate, Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.
Yeats, W.B. [William Butler]. ON THE BOILER. The Cuala Press: Dublin, 1938.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Front cover illus. by Jack B. Yeats, 9.5 x 7.5", pict blue-green wraps with yapped edges, 46pp + ads, covers rubbed and soiled, yapped edges torn and chipped, whole item with bumping to lower fore-corner, pp toned.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
YEATS W(illiam) B(utler). On the Boiler. Cuala Press 1938 (second edition), 1938.
Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: paper wrappers by Jack B Yeats, advertisement leaf, quarto, very good. the first edition was destroyed by Mrs Yeats; 46 pages; keywords: poetry;
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
YEATS, W.B.. On the Boiler. The Cuala Press, Dublin, 1938.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Second edition (preceded by an extremely limited first edition with only four copies known to exist, the rest destroyed by the poet's wife). Near fine in blue wrapper a touch toned and with touch of wear to the yapped edges.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
YEATS, W.B.. On the Boiler. Cuala, Dublin, 1938.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Tall 8vo, pictorial blue wrappers, designed by Jack Yeats. Dublin: Cuala Press, n.d. (1938). Fine. Small remnant of a sticker on front cover, otherwise a very fine copy.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Yeats, W. B.. New Poems: By W. B. Yeats. The Cuala Press, Dublin, Ireland, 1938.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Slim octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 tan cloth with blue paper over boards. Blue endpapers. Illustrated title page. The boards are dampstained, particularly the rear board (the paper has bubbled a bit). The book is internally free of dampstaining. One in an edition limited to 450. The Cuala Press originally started out as the Dun Emer Press in 1903. The Press, founded by Evelyn Gleeson and influenced by the Gaelic revival occurring in Ireland, promoted Ireland's cultural heritage, while at the same time training women to work in a useful trade. Eventually the two sisters of W. B. Yeats took over the press, continuing her work, and renaming it The Cuala Press in 1908. The Press eventually closed in 1973.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Yeats, W. B.. On the Boiler.. The Cuala Press., Dublin, 1938.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Second Edition. (Only 4 copies of the first edition are known to exist after the balance of the print run were destroyed by the poet's wife. ) (46pp. ) (7 1/2" X 9 3/4") Near fine in blue oversize printed wrappers. Jack B. Yeats illustration on front cover. Originally issued as a periodical. (Couple tiny soil spots on cover. 1/4"-inch tear at base of front cover at edge of spine. ) ; 46 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
YEATS, W.B.. On the Boiler.. Dublin The Cuala Press, 1938.
Price: US$302.50 + shipping
Description: Second edition; 4to; some age-toning, else unmarked internally; publisher's blue wrappers with design by Jack B. Yeats, slight toning to edges, minor edge-wear, else near-fine. Second edition, preceded by an extremely limited first edition, of which most copies were destroyed by the poet's wife.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
YEATS, W.B.. New Poems.. Dublin The Cuala Press, 1938.
Price: US$332.75 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 450 copies; 8vo; minor age-toning, else unmarked internally, partly unopened; publisher's cloth-backed blue boards, paper label to spine printed in black, black lettering to upper cover, blue endpapers, spine label slightly rubbed costing some letters, cloth slightly marked, some rubbing to extremities, else very good. One of 450 copies, printed at the Cuala Press. The Cuala Press originally started out as the Dun Emer Press in 1903, founded by Evelyn Gleeson. Influenced by the Gaelic revival occurring in Ireland, it promoted Ireland's cultural heritage, while at the same time training women to work in a useful trade. Eventually the two sisters of W.B. Yeats took over the press, continuing Gleeson's work, and renaming it The Cuala Press in 1908.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Yeats, W.B.. New Poems. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1938, 1938.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover. Sm 8vo (8.5" x 6"), half cream cloth, blue paper boards, with paper-stamp title on spine. iv, 39 pp., with four pp. of sheet music printed at end. Inscribed "Elizabeth Parker" in pencil on ffep and bookplate of Wyman Parker on front pastedown. CONDITION: Very good, nick to spine-edge of paper on rear cover, bit of rubbing to spine label slightly affecting lettering. First edition. One of 450 copies, "finished on the last day of Spring April the ninth, in the year nineteen hundred and thirty eight," and purchased by previous owner at "the Cuala Press, June 9, 1938, for a gift for Mother." Wyman Parker was a librarian at Wesleyan University, librarian at the Bread Loaf School of English, and a collector of fine press books.
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
Yeats, W.B. [William Butler]. NEW POEMS. The Cuala Press: Dublin, 1938.
Price: US$454.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Title page illus., 8.5 x 6", cloth backed boards, 39pp + music, corners bumped, spine label worn, former owner's ink name on front blank. LIMITED TO 450 COPIES.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
YEATS W.B.. New Poems. , 1938.
Price: US$962.45 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo., original quarter pale linen, blue paper-covered boards, lettered in black on upper cover, printed paper label on spine, dust jacket. Dublin, The Cuala Press. Inscribed by Yeats' sister Elizabeth on the the colophon page at the rear: ?Elizabth Corbet Yeats, printer and publisher, July 1938? One of 450 copies printed. Spine slightly darkened and label slightly worn, otherwise an excellent copy. Miller 59. Wade 197.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Yeats, William Butler (W.B. Yeats). New Poems. Cuala Press, 1938.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing published by the Cuala Press. A superb copy. The book is in wonderful condition with slight wear to the spine. The binding is tight, with light wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy in collectors condition. We buy Yeats First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.